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Supplies:

• Construction paper-white, purple, brown, blue and orange
• Scissors
• Black marker
• Glue
• Tupperware top-circle

Steps:

1. Trace 3 circles for snowman’s body and cut out
2. Cut out scarf, with small cuts on end to make fringe
3. Cut hat from blue paper
4. Cut arms from brown paper
5. Glue together.

If you have the book frosty the snowman it’s a great activity to read the book and work on this snowman craft after reading it with your child.

I always love to create a craft and tie it in to a book!  My daughter actually brought this craft home from school one day and inspired me to pull out our copy of The Mitten by Jan Brett and read it with her.  The Mitten is a great story (You may have seen some of Jan Brett’s other stories like The Hat which is also great).   The story is about a little boy Nikki who convinces his Baba (grandmother) to make him white mittens.  She is hesitant because she is worried he will lose his mitten in the snow.  His first day out with it sure enough he loses it.  The story details the adventures of the mitten and how it ends up back with him.

I thought I would share this craft which is so simple and ties in so nicely with the story.

Supplies

• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Paint

Steps

1. Cut out Mitten Shape
2. Paint (whatever color your child likes)
3. Add fun things like glitter, foam pieces etc. (optional)

Enjoy!!

One day my mother in law came over to watch my kids for a few hours and she decided to do a craft with them.  She always does cool things with them, but I had to share this one because I really thought it was so great!!

Supplies

• 3 Popsicle Sticks
• Glitter
• White Spray paint
• Cheap puzzle-20-50 piece small one
• Pipe Cleaner
• Glue

Steps

1. Glue popsicle sticks together one on top of the other – perpindicular so you end up with 6 “arms” (glue gun works well with this)
2. Wrap a pipecleaner around one of them so that you can hang it, like an ornament
3. Spray puzzle pieces white with spray paint
4. Sprinkle glitter on wet puzzle pieces-let dry
5. Glue puzzle pieces on popsicle sticks (glue gun is helpful with this)

You now have a beautiful Snow Flake!! Enjoy!!

If you try this craft, let me know how you like it!!

Since spring won’t come as quickly as I would like, I decided I would do a winter theme project today.   This is a simple and easy Toddler Craft.

Before working on this project you might want to read Frosty the Snowman to your child by Jack Collins.  Then you can talk about Frosty and the story.   I always ask what they liked best about the story and have them retell it to me.  Then you can make a “Frosty” together.

Supplies you will need:

• White Construction Paper
• Brown Construction Paper
• Orange construction Paper
• Scissors
• Brown Pipe Cleaner
• Glue
• Glitter Glue (optional)
• Googly Eyes (optional)
• Scotch Tape

Steps to Make the Snow Man:

1. Cut White construction Paper into three size circles (I use circle tuperware lids to make an even circle)
2. Cut from Brown Construction Paper a top hat shape
3. Cut out a Carrot shaped nose for the nose
4. Glue three circles together to make a snow man shape
5. Tape Brown Pipe Cleaner to bag with two pieces of tape
6. Glue hat on top of Snowmans head
7. Make eyes with glitter glue or glue on googly eyes
8. Then you decorate the snowman however you like, drawing, paining on him, or gluing pieces of foam shapes et