I wanted my kids to make snowmen this year, but I wanted to change it up a little bit. So, we used our Maker Space to create them. It was a GREAT project. The kids loved it and we were proud of our results.
This is the little maker space in my classroom...
You can read lots more about how I set it up and get other project ideas here: Maker Space in Kindergarten
I truly believe that the use of materials and problem solving involved during art projects make them sooooo valuable in the young child's classroom. Having all the materials from our Maker Space available for these snowmen made them each as unique as the little learners who made them.
Here are some of the materials we used for this project...
Yes, my aide and I both collected little twigs for this project. Although in my inspiration examples that I made for the kiddos, I didn't use twig arms. I wanted to give them other ideas in case the twigs ran out. Of course, only two kids ended up using the twigs. Ha ha!
We also used, foam, felt, paper, beads, pom poms buttons, little hardware pieces, bottle caps, pipe cleaners, yarn, cardboard, and plastic recyclables. I gave them very thick white card stock for the snowmen bodies. I was available at the space to help with cutting through thick cardboard or craft sticks, and I was also in charge of the low heat hot glue gun. Kids were working independently and were the design directors. They told me where they wanted things, I was just gluing. I try to keep my suggestions to a minimum so that the kids are in total creative control.
Here are a few more adorable snow people...
And I just LOVE this adorable snow girl...
We were just finishing up a measurement unit in math, so we also measured how many cubes tall our snow people are...
The kids had a little recording sheet to write how many cubes tall their snow person was. After that, we all worked collaboratively to get in order from shortest to tallest . The kids needed support getting in order, so I called out the measurement numbers and kids sat down on our big rug in order. When two students had the same number, they had to compare to see which one was slightly taller or shorter. It was fun!
When we had them all in order, we put them on a big table so they were ready to go up on a bulletin board. It looked great!
We were all so proud of our project! Measuring snowman art with cubes is nothing new. Getting into order by height was a nice addition to the activity. It was a perfect culminating activity to end our measurement unit. It went well with our studies on winter too.
If you would like to do this activity with your class, you can use my little recording sheet if you like it. It's FREE! You can download it right here: Snowman Measurement Recording Sheet
This is what the page looks like. It has three recording sheets to a page. Place for students' names and the space for recording the number is big enough for little learners. Hope this helps make winter in your classroom a little bit more fun!
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Happy teaching!
