A Snowy Drive
Invite your little ones to explore the slippery driving conditions of a snowy road. Squirt nonmentholated shaving cream (snow) onto a tabletop; then smooth the shaving cream for even coverage. Place a variety of small toy cars near the shaving cream. A youngster chooses a car and then “drives” it through the snow. What fun!
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Ice Painting! (From Preschool Daze)
Put water in ice trays, add food coloring, and place craft sticks (or wooden forks as you’ll see pictured) in the water and freeze. Once frozen, children can paint with the colored ice!!!!
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Goals:
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Before You Start: Mix equal parts white BioColor® Foam paint (found at Discount Art Supply online but shaving cream might work too) and white glue. Let kids mix with their hands. You will need dark blue construction paper and decorations like sequins or buttons to make the snowmen features. An old sweater cut into small strips makes a dandy scarf! |
Furthermore: You could mix up several other colors with the BioColor® Foam paint and let the kids make a black top hat or a blue ski hat. Small twigs make cute arms! A variation of this could be to have the students glue on cotton balls to make the snowmen.
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Step 1.
Have each child take a facial tissue, dip it into the mixture, then form a snowball on dark blue construction paper.
Step 2.
Instruct them to do this three times to form their snowman.
Step 3.
While the mixture is still wet, let children add details and features.
Step 4.
Allow the project to air dry (it’s usually dry in 24 hours).
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An Activity for Preschoolers: Create a translucent snowflake to decorate windows or as a Christmas tree ornament children can give as a gift. |
Goals:
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Before You Start: You will need white glue, wax paper and “snow” (glitter) and pipe cleaners or string for hanging. |
Furthermore: This project is fun and easy and creates a great “take-home” gift around the holidays! |
Step 1.
Place the wax paper on a table, and pre-trace the design of snowflakes for the children.
Step 2.
Help children trace the snowflake lines with a thick amount of glue.
Step 3.
Have students sprinkle “snow” and let set overnight.
Step 4.
The snowflake should be dry enough to lift off the wax paper and hang on a string or pipe cleaner to decorate on a Christmas tree or hang by the window.
Snowballs Galore
Youngsters bubble over with excitement when they participate in this print-making activity!
Supplies:
- 9″ x 12″ piece of Bubble Wrap cushioning material
- 9″ x 12″ blue construction paper
- white tempera paint
- glitter
- paintbrush
- snowman sticker (optional)
Setup:
Mix glitter into the paint.
Steps:
- Brush paint on the cushioning material.
- Place a sheet of paper over the cushioning material. Then press on the paper to transfer the paint.
- Lift up the paper. Set it aside to dry.
- Stick a snowman sticker among the snowballs if desired.
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To prepare for this fun art project, hot-glue textured items to separate child-size mittens. (The hot glue gun is for teacher use only.) Items you might consider include scouring pads, pom-poms, or lace. Place paper towels in shallow pans; then saturate the towels in each pan with a different color of tempera paint. Place a different mitten next to each pan. To begin, place a mitten on your hand and press the textured item into the paint; then make prints on a sheet of paper. Continue in the same way with the other mittens.
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Footprint Penguins
To make one, have a child make a black tempera paint footprint on white construction paper. When the paint is dry, trim around the footprint. Then have the youngster glue on an orange beak and a white oval tummy. Have her add two hole reinforcers for eyes. Display the finished penguins on white paper icebergs with blue paper water all around.
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