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Snowman Crafts for Kids

January 3, 2016 By Deirdre

Snowman always remind me of winter. We don’t get much snow here in South Carolina, but snowman are still popular winter crafts to make here.

Here is a collection of amazing snowman crafts for kids I think you will love. If you feel so inclined you can change these snowman crafts into snow ladies if you like. I don’t think that would be hard to do.

Snowman Crafts

This snowman Snow Globe from No Time for Flashcards was a belly filled with glitter. What fun it would be to watch it snow inside your snowman craft.

Pinecone Snowman from Fun Family Crafts is one of the snowman crafts in this collection that would be great for older kids.

Melted Snowman Painting from Kiwi Crate is a craft with whimsy. I love that his hat is upside down. The snowman’s scarf is descending to the ground. His arms and eyes have stayed in place though.

Puffy Paint Snowman from Artsy Momma was created on a paper plate. This is one of the snowman crafts I thought would be great for kids young and old.

CD Snowman Ornament from Happy Hooligans just make me smile. I love the off center smiles and twisted noses.

Stuffed Snowman Sewing Craft from Imagination Tree looks like a fun sewing project for kids.

What fun this paper plate snowman from Crafty Morning is! It is cool that he has matching mittens and shoes.

Snowman Bookmarks from Classy Mommy will hold your spot in your favorite winter themed book.

Shredded Paper Snowman from Housing a Forest has such a fun texture. Kids will love the fluffiness of this snowman craft.

Snowman Sun Catcher from Craftulate lets the scenery outside your window decorate part of the snowman. That is just too cool.

Snowman Winter Crafts from Crafty Morning is super cool! I love how his body is made of the letter S.

Footprint Snowman from Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails looks like it would be fun to make.

Tin Can Snowman from Hands On: As We Grow moves with the wind. What fun it would be to make one to hang outside your door.

Cupcake Liner Snowman from I Heart Crafty Things features one of my favorite crafting materials. I love using cupcake liners in crafts.

Snowman Crafts from Right Here on JDaniel4’s Mom

Snow Globe with JDaniel and Snowman Craft– JDaniel and I both took pictures of each other to use in our snow globes.

Hole Punch Snowman was made a part of a counting lesson. We both counted and he punch that number of holes.

For more winter crafts please check out my Winter Crafts Pinterest board.

Frozen Olaf Cup Craft for Kids

June 19, 2014 By Deirdre

We didn’t see Frozen when it was in the movie theater last winter. JDaniel was introduced to Frozen Olaf while watching in on DVD at a friend’s house recently. He was definitely JDaniel’s favorite character from the movie. I decided it would be fun to make Frozen Olaf at home and we hunted through our craft supplies and under the kitchen sink for cups to make him.

We ended up not having white Styrofoam cups under the sink so, I borrowed some from my mom. (I had purchased a large supply of them for her last week so, I knew she had some.) We found the rest of the supplies among the craft elements in our crafts closet.

Here is what we used to make Frozen Olaf:

Styrofoam cups (two)
Black felt
White felt
Orange construction paper
Black pipe cleaner
Glue stick
Scissors

How we put Frozen Olaf Together:

Cutting Out His Facial Features

The first thing we did was cut out the mouth and eye components out of felt. The eyes are made of two small black circles and two large white circles. The mouth is made of a large fun filled sort of pocket shape made with black felt and a white tooth. We looked carefully at the tooth Frozen Olaf had in the movie and decided it had rounded sides rather than straight sides. (You could probably make the tooth either way.)

The second step was to cut out a large triangle out of orange construction paper. Our nose is a little bit wider than Frozen Olaf’s nose was in the movie, but I think it still looks great.

Gluing on His Facial Features

Once we had all the facial features ready, we glued them on to the cups. The mouth components were glued to cup that sits right side up. The mouth seems to look best right below the rim of the cups we used. You may want to try them in various places on the cup before gluing them down.

The eye components were glued at about the halfway point of an upside down cup. Frozen Olaf’s eyes are really close to his nose. By placing his eyes halfway down the cup it gave us the look we wanted.

Frozen Olaf’s nose had glue placed on only the top half of it before it was added to his face. We wanted to be able to disassemble cup craft and stack the cups together when we stored it to enjoy later.

Giving Frozen Olaf Hair

Frozen Olaf’s hair was made of a pipe cleaner cut into fourths. After cutting the pipe cleaner into fourths, we poked a small hole in the bottom of the cup with the scissors. The hole was just the right size for pipe cleaners to fit it and not large enough for them to wiggle around it. When all the pipe cleaners were in place, we twisted the ends inside cup together to keep them in place.

Three Fun Things About Our Frozen Olaf

One of the fun things about our Frozen Olaf craft is that you can turn the cups back and forth until two cups are placed where you want it to be. It is fun to try to balance the cups just right.

The second fun thing about it is that you can stack the top part of the head into the bottom part of the head. This makes them great for traveling from school to home. It also makes them easy to store for later.

The third fun thing about keeping the two sections separate we didn’t have to worry about attaching them. (That might have been tricky unless we want a tape them together on the inside or back. We decided not to have tape appear on or in the craft.)

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Snow Globe Craft For Kids

February 11, 2014 By Deirdre

Creating a painted snow globe when you live in place that gets very little snow seemed like a great idea to me. My son just loves snow and snow globes. He loves to turn my mother in law’s snow globe over to make the tiny white specks inside start to swirl around and around. Why not create a craft for kids that places them right in a snow globe.

Creating this Craft for Kids

To make our painted snow globes we started by cutting out the outline of a snow globe from black construction paper. I had traced the outline onto the paper with a white crayon before we started cutting. Cutting smoothly is still a challenge for one of us so, this was good practice.

Then we each glued pictures of ourselves into the snow globe. I glued down a picture of me and JDaniel chose a picture of himself. We had both taken several pictures of each other in fun poses and then selected the ones we wanted for this project. Taking the pictures for this project was really fun. You may already have pictures in your files that you could use instead of having to take new pictures. This was actually our favorite part of working on this craft for kids.

When the pictures were glued into place, we started to spatter tiny dots of white paint onto the globe. We tried several different ways of applying the dots. At first, we tried dabbing on the dots. That technique created thick blobs of paint. Then we tried shaking the paint brush gently from side to side. That approach results in light white spatters that weren’t really round in shape. Finally, we tried wildly shaking the paint-soaked brush. We found that the spatters remained light in color, but were much closer together on the snow globe. I am sure that there are lots of other ways to apply white paint with a brush, but we stopped with those.

Snow Globe Craft for Kids - Mother and Son Themed Globes

While the paint was drying, we shook a shaker of salt over the snow globe to add a glistening effect to it. The snow globe really didn’t end up glistening unless it was in the direct sunlight. It did add a little bit of texture to the painted snow globe and that was fun! If we had added glitter, we would have ended up with a shiny and glittery effect. I didn’t have any so we had to do without.

Snow Globe Craft for Kids - Mother and Son Themed Globes - My son's snow globe.

While we can’t turn our snow globes over to create a snowfall, our painted snow globes sure are a lot of fun to look at.

Preschool Math- Snowman Hole Punch Counting

January 23, 2013 By Deirdre

Sometimes you plan out an activity to do with your child and you layout the materials. In your mind you know that the final product will look like. Then you child sits down and says,” Just a minute! I know what we should do?” That is exactly what happened with this preschool math activity. A simple craft became a preschool math activity in just a matter of minutes.I thought JDaniel would have fun using the hole punch to make button holes in construction paper. The buttons would be placed on a paper plate snowman. JDaniel has been hoping and praying for snow. He hasn’t had enough snow to make a snowman in two years. This would be a snowman he could make without snow.

The paper plates, construction paper, glue and hole punch were placed on the table and told JDaniel that I had an activity for him to do. He came over right away to see what I had planned.While we cut out some circles out of the construction paper, I talked with him about how most button have two or four holes them. Grabbing some of the circles I showed him how to make a four hole buttons with the hole punch. Then it was his turn.

JDaniel grabbed one of the buttons and punched one hole in it. I waited for him to add the extra holes, but he didn’t add any. He grabbed another button and punched two holes in it. Before he grabbed another button, I asked him what he was doing.

“Mom, I am counting on!” he announced. Counting by ones with buttons was great idea. He continued to punch holes in the remaining buttons. Each time he added one more hole.

At first it looked like he was patterning too, but when the buttons were done the colors weren’t in a pattern. I asked him if we need to cut out more buttons to create a pattern. “No, this is a counting activity not a patterning one,” he said shared with me..

I had thought it was a crafting activity before we started it. In just one minute everything changed and JDaniel came up with a wonderful preschool math activity. Well, maybe it was still partially a craft. We did cut out arms and a nose. We did use glue and scissors. Mostly I think it ended up being a math activity.

It was fun to see how this preschool math snowman hole punch counting activity came together.

Here are some more preschool math activities:

LEGO Graphing

Preschool- I Spy Worksheets

This post is linked to Alphabe Thursday.

Muffin Tin Meals- A Snowman’s Buffalo Chicken Lunch

December 12, 2011 By Deirdre

There is such something wonderful about buffalo chicken dip! I just love the flavors in it. One of its attributes is that it looks like snow in the baking dish. I had decided to make a snowman as one of JDaniel’s muffin tin meals this week. The buffalo chicken dip made the perfect spreadable snowy topping.

The Muffin Tin Meal Building Instructions

Arnold’s 100% Whole Wheat Mini made the perfect foundation for the snowman’s snowballs. They were just the right size to cover the top of the muffin tin cups. The top snowball had a cranberry smile, carrot nose, and raisin eyes added to its dip.
Beside the snowman sandwiches, this muffin tin meal contained a small salad. JaDniel has just started to enjoy salads. I am so excited! It is a great way to get vegetables into a meal.
He also had chunky beef soup to go with the meal. Yes, he had beef and chicken in his lunch. He really only ate the vegetables out of the soup so, the chicken was really the only meat he ate.
Finally, JDaniel had red grapes in his lunch. They have continued to be a favorite of his. He really loved getting to spear them with a snowman pick.
The temperature has finally started to dip here. I am so ready to start filling JDaniel’s muffin tin meals with comfort foods that will warm him up.
Buffalo Chicken Dip: