Snow People in a Globe

Tomorrow is the last school day we will have with the children before the winter break. Instead of letting our sparkly play dough go to waste, we invited the children to sculpt miniature snow people using the play dough and a variety of little art trinkets like beads, sequins, and ribbon scraps.

The children built the small snow people on the inside of a baby food bottle cap. They turned out so well!

Some children used strategies like building their snow person on a stick so the balls of play dough would hold together. What great problem solving!

By building the snow person onto the lid, it made it very easy to turn each child's creation into a unique, miniature winter globe! Don't they look great on our shelf?

Ten Little Snowmen Shared Reading

Families,

Your child will be bringing home his or her blue shared reading duotang tonight. We have been practising the poem Ten Little Snowmen together.  Here are two fun websites that compliment this poem that you might like to check out with your child.  Happy reading!

Ten Little Snowmen Animated Book

Build a Virtual Snowman

Puffy Snow People

The children explored a messy material today! We made puffy snow people using glue and shaving cream. Some children spent much time shaping the material into a snow person and adding detail to it, while others just explored the messy material, smoothing it over their papers and adding bits and pieces to decorate. The wonderful thing about this material is that is dries as a puff, so the snow people have texture to them when they are finished. You can create the recipe at home by mixing 2 parts shaving cream to 1 part white glue. Enjoy!

Colouring Snow

We brought some of the cold winter fun inside our classroom today by placing a large amount of snow in our water table. The children took turns colouring the snow by spraying it with the primary colours (food colouring and water). The spray bottles challenged children to use their fine motor skills as they were quite difficult to squeeze. We all marveled at the beautiful colours the children created!

Because the activity was so popular the children decided to use a sand time to help keep track of how long each person's turn was and when it was time to pass the bottles on to the next participant!  How clever!

Sparkly Snowmen!

We were capitated with the beautiful snow as it gently fell outside today. It inspired a batch of sparkly playdough which children used to make unique little snowmen!