Just a Snowman: Winter Books Crafts and Activities

Just a Snowman: Winter Books Crafts and Activities

 

What we used:

DIY scented glitter glue

black and orange construction paper

paper plates

paint brush optional

I used scissors to cut out circles for mouth and eyes and a nose shape

What I did with my 2 year old:

My toddler squeezed DIY glitter glue on his plate.  He then painted the plate.  After he was through painting he added the pre-cut shapes to the paper plate to create the snowman face. Aside from him just having fun, we went over the color and shapes that he glued down to the plate. 

 We read our book Just A Snowman before we started our craft. He was excited to see he had created a snowman face in the end.

Of course, the glue and painting fun did not end with the one paper plate.  I rolled out a big piece of paper and let him go wild! He got to paint until he was content.

We read one of his favorite winter books Just A Snowman by Mercer Mayer. 

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We recently made homemade clay for the first time.  We have made tons of playdough in the past but not clay.  We made Winter Mint Glitter Clay for our winter book activity.  How could we read Just A Snowman that is all about Little Critter wanting to build a snowman and not build our own.  Last year we did playdough snowmen so this year we made clay snowmen to mix it up a bit.   

What we did:

We took the clay and rolled it into balls.  We stacked those on top of each other.  We added cut pipe cleaners as arms and a nose.  We added googly eyes.  Then, I took the baby socks and made little sock hats to add on the snowmen. We got some thicker gift ribbon and added them as scarfs.  Last, my son insisted we add a flower like frosty to our snowmen.  Luckily I found the plastic bead flowers for him to add.

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