Snowflake Crafts

Categories: Curriculum Ideas

We have been hitting the snow theme hard lately. December was overflowing with Christmas activities that we didn’t even touch on one snow activity. I was saving it for January – because we all know how long January can be. We need plenty of fun activities to get us through. Also up on the agenda this month: glue/shaving cream snowman, sensory snow bin, Snowglobe poem, reading The Mitten, 3 snowman book read alouds, and whole week of penguin activities. Because you know snow – penguins… eh. That works right?

This craft turned out surprising cute. I made all of this big pink snowflakes on the die cute machine with no real plan in mind. I sneakily did pink because I figured if we keep it up until Valentine’s Day – no harm, no foul. I had this random stash of buttons so I thought that’d be cute to decorate the snowflakes with but I needed something to mount them on. I had keep pieces of cardstock from our 2013 calendars – done.

We decorated the cardstock with do-a-dot art markers. IMG_2669

My kids love these markers. Great for my kids who are lower and perfect to work on requesting colors, fine motor skills of twist for opening/closing cap, and fine motor skills for pushing marker onto the paper.

20130108-173731

Then we glued the snowflakes onto the cardboard and then glued buttons onto the snowflake. More great fine motor work! 🙂

Turned out so cute!

Recently Updated109

We have also been loving making paper cut out snowflakes. We did a few in January for our Christmas tree forest in the hall and my older boys are just obsessed. It was like magic the first time I demonstrated how to make a snowflake and unfolded that little beauty. Jawdropping wonder.

0 Comments

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *