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| Art: Drink Mix Jar Snowman I took those white plastic kool-aid jars (the ones that sweetened kool-aid comes in, tang, and other drinks)-painted them white and while the paint was still sticky, sprinkled fake snow on them. Dabbed on black paint eyes and buttons, orange nose, tied a plaid fabric "scarf" around the neck. Sock Hats Children's mismatched socks make perfect snow hats for your favorite snowman and winter craft projects. Simply cut at the ankle, place the sock cuff on the craft's head, tie the end with yarn or ribbon for a perfect winter hat. Acorn Snowman What You Need: 3 acorns for each snowman 1 acorn top for each snowman acrylic paint in white and red purchased miniature bow or ribbon 8" thin ribbon snow texture paint black marker or paint orange acrylic paint toothpick sandpaper hot glue What You Do: Gently rough up the outside of each acorn with a piece of sandpaper. Paint acorns white, 2 or 3 coats may be needed to cover. Paint the acorn top with red paint, repeat and let dry. Glue each acorn together with hot glue. Hot glue acorn top on as a hat. Use black marker, or a toothpick dipped in black paint, to dot on eyes, mouth and buttons. Use the other end of the toothpick to paint on nose with orange paint. Glue the bow tie, or ribbon fashioned into a bow tie, to the front of the snowman. Glue the thin piece of ribbon to the back of the snowman as a hanger. When everything is dry, hang the snowman on a nail on the wall. Now using the snow texture paint, add some snow to the hat. Allow to dry completely. Fingerprint Snowmen Show the children how to make fingerprints on a piece of paper. Then, have them try to make a few snow men. With a big fingerprint on the bottom, medium in the middle and small on the top. Have the children add features with a pencil. Beanie Snowman You will need: plain white sock (child's size) tea bags 3/4 cup raw rice rubberband Fiberfil black pom pom black marker orange felt or foam blush and a Q-tip buttons (optional) scrap piece of flannel or other material Instructions: Tea dye the sock for a country look by dipping sock in strained tea and soaking for ten minutes. Another option (pictured here) is to turn the sock inside out first to give it a terry cloth look. Fill the toe part of the sock with 3/4 cup raw rice. If you want to spend a little more money you can use 1 cup polypellets. Tie a rubberband around the sock (just above rice fill). This makes the body. In the next part of the sock put a medium size ball of Fiberfil. Tie a rubberband around sock just above the Fiberfil part. (This makes the head). Now turn the opening of the sock down partway over the head (this will be the hat) Glue a black pom pom to the small hole on top. Use a black marker to make eyes and a mouth. You can use orange paint or a small triangle of orange craft foam for the nose (put the triangle sideways) I use a q-tip with a little bit of blush on to give him rosy cheeks. For the body part either glue buttons three in a row vertically or use a black marker for this.Tie a scrap piece of flannel LOOSELY around neck part for the scarf. Clothespin Snowmen You will need wooden clothespins 1 1/8" wood circles 3/4" x 5/8" wooden spools craft wire ribbon or material scrap acrylic paint in black*, white, and orange white craft glue small foil Christmas tree or other embellishment * You can use a black marker instead of paint if you prefer. What you do Paint the clothespin with white acrylic paint. Allow to dry and repeat for a second coat. Glue the spool to the center of the wood circle. Paint the spool and circle black. Glue the dry black hat to the top of the dry white clothespin. Cut a piece of craft wire long enough to form a hanger for your ornament (approx 6"-8"). Wrap the ends of the craft wire around the "neck" of the clothespin, creating a loop. With the wire loop at the back, wrap a scrap of material or ribbon around the neck and tie for a scarf, covering any exposed craft wire. Using a small paintbrush, or even a toothpick, dot on eyes, mouth and buttons with black paint. Use orange for the nose and glue foil tree to the hat. Hang! Fingerprint Snowmen Show the children how to make fingerprints on a piece of paper. Then, have them try to make a few snow men. With a big fingerprint on the bottom, medium in the middle and small on the top. Have the children add features with a pencil. Three Dimentional Snowman Materials: Blue construction paper, white paint, sponge, glitter, button eyes, pompoms, popcorn, pipecleaners, black beans Directions: Sponge paint a snowman shape. Poke two holes to thread yarn through. Cut mittens from folded construction paper and glue to the ends of the yarn. Use construction paper scraps, cotton, yarn, fabric, buttons, cloth, beans, beads, or popcorn to create a face, hat buttons for snowman. Snowman Stick Puppets Cut out snowman shape out of white cardboard paper. Children can decorate their snowman with cutout pieces of felt, small buttons, or sparkles. Tape a popsicle stick to the back of the snowman yo create puppet.. Melting Snowman Materials: Glue , Wax Paper , Wood Bead , Black Felt , Glue , Black Sharpie (marker), Orange Sharpie (marker), Scrap Material Directions: On the wood bead you will need to draw a face with the black sharpie and orange sharpie (for the carrot nose). Next you will need to cut a rectangle and a square out of your black felt. Fold the rectangle into a circle, gluing the two ends together. Once you have done this snip small 2 or 3 cm snips into one end of the circle. Glue that end onto the square to form a hat. With the scrap felt you have left you can cut out ovals and then cut one end off to make them look like mitten. Next you will need to place your wax paper out and squeeze a blob of glue out onto the wax paper. Place the bead in the middle along w/ the black hat, black mittens and a scrap of thin material for the scarf. Leave to dry, when dry it will look like the snowman melted. Snowman Palm Materials: White Paint , Light Blue Paper , Black Paper , Orange Scrap Paper , Black Marker , Paint Brush Directions Paint only the palm of your hand. Place the palm print down on paper. Do this three times, one on top of the other. Next either cut out a black hat and orange carrot nose out of paper or wait until paint is dry and draw them on. Don’t forget to draw on the stick arms you can also use real twigs for the arms if you choose. Glitter snow globes Get some baby food jars. Glue a small plastic snowman or other figure to the inside of the jar with waterproof adhesive. Let it dry. Fill the jar with water. Add glitter. Use plastic shavings as "snow." Fasten the lid. Melt some wax to seal the lid or use hot glue. Vary the globes by changing the figures & colors of glitter. Snow person Put a jar lid in the toe of a sock. Crumple newspaper into three balls. Put the largest one in the sock on top of the lid. Tie string around the sock above the ball. Add the other balls, tying string above each one. Cut off the rest of the sock above the last piece of string. To make a hat brim, trace around a water glass onto paper. Cut out the circle. Set an empty film canister in the center of the circle and trace around it. Cut out the small circle to form a ring. Slide the paper ring over the canister and tape it in place. Glue the hat over the cut end of the sock. Glue on button eyes and buttons on the body. For a scarf, tie a fabric strip around the neck. Place twig arms under it. Glue on a sequin mouth. Glue on a button nose. Snowballs Take a styrofoam ball and place on an egg carton or other stand to prevent rolling. Paint the surface that is showing with thinned white glue. Then put white and blue tissue paper squares into the glue. Sprinkle sparkles sparingly. Then turn the ball over and complete the other side with glitter, stickers, paint, or small candies. Sparkle Snow people Snowmen can be painted using a mixture of white glue, water, and paint and then sprinkled with sparkles to let dry. Creates an interesting effect. Doily Snow People One Large Doily for body, One Small Doily for head, One Small Doily, cut in half for arms, black construction paper for eyes, 3 buttons and mouth. Glue to colored construction paper. Snow Make snow paintings using Ivory soap snow (1 cup Ivory Snow powder and 3/4 cup water). Have the children help mix this up using hand beaters & then paint on black paper with small brushes. Snow people Make snow people out of white toilet paper tubes...cut them into sections & then the children can glue 2 or 3 sections together to make a snowmen...add buttons for eyes or what ever, yard for a scarf, etc... Ice Cream Stick Snowman large hour glass shaped ice cream or craft stick white acrylic paint black acrylic paint orange toothpick black toothpick black yarn or cord scrap of material for scarf black fine point marker Paint craft stick white on both sides and let dry. Paint top of craft stick black for the hat. Glue black toothpick in place just below the bottom of the black hat you just painted. The toothpick becomes the hat brim, so line it up carefully. Glue cord or yarn in a loop to the back of the craft stick. Tie scrap of material around neck as scarf. Glue in place to keep it from sliding off. Using black marker, draw on eyes, mouth and belly buttons. Glue half of an orange toothpick in place for the nose. Paint Stirrer Snowman Paint stir stick small craft or ice cream stick white & black acrylic paint orange toothpick scrap material for scarf black fine tip marker green embroidery floss gold cord light pink acrylic paint Paint the stir stick white. Paint the handle end of the stick black. Pain the ice cream stick black, let dry. Glue ice cream stick across from of paint stirrer, this will act as the hat brim. Tie fabric scrap around neck as the scarf. Make a loop and glue gold cord to the back of the head. Draw on eyes, nose and mouth, as well as belly buttons. Add rosey cheeks with slight touches of pink paint. Glue toothpick in place for nose. Tie floss into a small bow and attach to the front of the hot with hot glue. Sock Snowman What You Need: men's over the calf tube socks clean cat litter 3 plastic recloseable bags 3 buttons material with a holiday pattern white yarn 1 red jingle bell 3 black plastic gems, beads, or dots What You Do: Using clean cat litter, fill each plastic bag and seal, each one having less litter than the other so that you end up with three different sizes. Put the largest sealed bag inside the tube sock. Push the bag all the way to the bottom (toe) of the sock. Put the medium sized bag inside the sock and then the smallest bag on top. Carefully lay the sock on its side so that it is easier to work with. Tie a piece of white yarn in between each litter bag, creating the snowman's sections. There should be one piece of yarn tied over each bag. You should still have the top of the sock left, approximately 3"-5" in length. Stand the snowman up and move the body sections around until he is in a standing position and can remain that way on his own. Fold the top of the sock down to form a cap and to cover the top piece of white yarn. Using pinking shears cut a strip of holiday fabric and tie around the hat. Glue the red jingle bell in place on the tied material. Cut another strip of material and tie around the neck to fashion a scarf. Cut three squares out of the fabric and glue in different spots on the snowman's body (see photo). Glue a button to each material patch. Glue the black beads in place for eyes and nose. Three Dimensional Snowmen Materials: Blue construction paper white paint sponge glitter button eyes pompoms popcorn pipe cleaners black beans Sponge paint the snowman shape. Poke two holes to thread yarn through. Cut mittens from folded construction paper and glue to the ends of the yarn. Use construction paper scraps or found objects (buttons, cloth, beans, beads, popcorn) to create a face, hat buttons for snowman. Cut cloth and pompom for a hat, glue triangle out for a nose, pipe cleaner arms, button eyes, black bean mouth, popcorn buttons. Drama Creative Movement Ten happy snowmen dancing all around. Dancing all around (spin in place). Ten happy snowmen dancing all around, The sun came out and one melted to the ground (make sun with arms, one slides to the ground). Nine.... Eight.... Seven.... and so on. No little snowmen dancing in the sun. First there were ten and now there are none! Games: Frosty Supplies A roll of toilet paper for each team Sheet of orange, black, red and yellow construction paper for each team Hat for each team Scissors for each team How To Play: Have several teams of four or five children. When you say, "GO" they should wrap one of the people on their team up in toilet paper (leaving an opening for nose and eyes). Once they've built their "Frosty" they can utilize the hat and construction paper to decorate him with. Put a time limit on decorating. Give a prize for the first completed Frosty, most unique Frosty, ugliest Frosty, cutest Frosty, etc. Hoops If you have an old hula hoop lying around, dig it out and play this fun winter game! What you need: Hula hoop, yarn, pinecone What you do: Place a hula hoop in the snow so that it can stand facing you. Form some snowballs to throw through the hoop. Practice throwing farther and farther from the hoop. Tie yarn around a pinecone, leaving about a 12" tail of yarn. Attach the tail of yarn to the top of the hula hoop so that the pinecone hangs into the middle of the hoop. Make a snowball and see if you can hit the pinecone. Is it easy or hard? Language: See the snowballs, One, two, three That make a snowman Just for me! Snowman This is snowman happy. This is snowman sad. This is snowman sleepy. This is snowman mad. This is snowman melting away. Hoping that he can come again another day! Five Little Snowmen Five little snowmen shivering in the ice. The first one said, "This isn't very nice." The second one said, " I can hardly wait for spring." The third one said, "Then birds will sing!" The fourth one said, "Here comes the bright, warm sun!" The fifth one said, "This is our last day of fun! "Aah," said the snowmen as warm breezes blew. Five little snowmen know winter is through Chubby Little Snowman A chubby little snowman Had a carrot nose Along came a bunny, And what do you suppose? That hungry little bunny Looking for his lunch, Ate the snowman's carrot nose, Nibble, nibble, CRUNCH! Math: Music: I'm a Little Snowman sung to "I'm a Little Teapot" I'm a little snowman Short and fat (knees bent slightly, arms curved out at sides) Here is my scarf (hand movement across neck and shoulders) And here is my hat. (pretend to put one on) When the sun comes out (arms up and together to form large circle above head) I'll melt away (sing slowly, sink to floor, pause) But don't worry (sit up, look confident) I'll be back some day! (point to self, tapping chest with finger) Snowman, Snowman sung to "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" Snowman, snowman, where did you go? I built you yesterday out of snow. I built you high and I built you fat. I put on eye and nose and a hat. And now you're gone - all melted away. But it's sunny outside, so I'll go and play. Recipes: Snack Ideas Snowman Soup Recipe 3 cups powdered sugar 1 cup nonfat dry milk 2 cups instant NesQuik 3/4 cup non dairy creamer 1 large (6 oz.) box instant chocolate pudding Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and store in air tight containers. To enjoy, add 3 T to a cup of boiling hot water. (Use more or less mix depending upon size of mug and your taste buds). Edible Snowmen Marshmallows held together by a toothpick, licorice strip for the scarf, pretzels for the arms, raisins for buttons, candy corn for nose. Make and then eat! Snowman Poop Leave snowman poop ALL over the house (mini-marshmallows) and a little puddle of water on the kitchen floor with a top hat and scarf beside it. Popcorn Snowmen 15 cups popped popcorn 1/2 cup butter or margarine 2 10 oz. packages marshmallows Thin pretzel sticks, raisin, candy corn, mini jawbreakers, red hots, gumdrops, and fruit leather Royal icing Pour the popcorn into a large bowl: set aside. Melt the butter in a nonstick saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the marshmallows, stirring constantly until melted. Pour over the popcorn and stir to coat. When cool enough to touch, rub margarine on your hands and form popcorn balls. Stack three popcorn balls for a snowman. Using icing for glue, add pretzel stick arms, raisin eyes, and a candy corn nose. Arrange mini jawbreakers into a broad grin. For buttons, use gumdrops or red hots. For scarves, cut rectangles out of fruit leather and tie and fringe the ends. Makes about 5 snowmen. Recipes Snowman Toast Materials: Toast , Softened Cream Cheese , Raisins, Carrots , Fruit Roll Up , Circle Cookie Cutter Directions: After you have toasted your bread using your circle cookie cutter cut bread. Have your child spread on the softened cream cheese to create the snow then add the snowman features using the raisins and carrots. Cut the fruit roll up into strips to create a scarf. Enjoy this fun treat. Snow Sculpturing 2c. ivory snow soap detergent 1/2 C. cold water (add powdered paint if desired) Mix both ingredients until desired consistency is present. Play and have fun. Wash hands. Surprise! It makes bubbles! Science A Melting Snowman Materials: 3 large balloons , 1 large bowl , 1 medium bowl , 1 small bowl , salt , water table or large plastic container , accessories for snowman (hat, scarf) , felt cut into shapes for eyes, nose, mouth and buttons Directions: Fill the balloons with water so each one will fit into the bowls. Freeze until solid. (takes 12-24 hours) Remove the balloon pieces and take the solid ice balls and place them one on top of the other by placing the largest one inside the water table and the other two balls on top. Use salt on the bottom of the table and in between the ice balls to help them fuse together. Now add the felt pieces (they stick right on the ice) as well as the other accessories. This makes an adorable little snowman that the children can watch melt." Sensory Winter Bubble Magic 10 cups of water 1 cup of dishwashing detergent, preferably Joy or Dawn 1/4 cup glycerin (available at natural food and craft stores) plastic bucket plastic bubble wand 1. Mix the water, detergent, and glycerin in a bucket. 2. Take the bucket and bubble wand outside on a really cold day, when the thermometer is reading 0 degrees or below. 3. Dip your wand in the bucket and blow gently through the wand to create a bubble. What happened to your bubble? Did it freeze? What happens when you blow your bubbles out into the cold winter wind? 4. Try to keep your bubble on the wand. Allow the bubble to freeze. What happens to the bubble's color when it freezes? Experiment with your bubbles on different days. How does the temperature affect the bubbles? |
Prop Box Ideas Include the following collections of objects and materials for children to create, discover, and use for imaginary play. Store collections in boxes or baskets to be accessible at any time (indoors or outdoors) for children to enhance their dramatic play. Snowman Kit Include in a cute bag 2 charcoals carrot pipe scarf Use this kit to make a snowman Give as a gift & include this poem to go with kit: "There is nothing like a snowman To make a person smile. His eyes of coal, his carrot nose, His pipe with so much style. We all have special memories Of fun in the snow and slush And this will be renewed With a little help from us!" c. 2007 -2008 |
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| "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy
is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of look- ing at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Seuss |
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