Dreaming of a white Christmas...

Today I was inspired to make some gorgeous snowmen with my little class after I saw photos of family in Minnesota making snowmen and playing in the snow... 

I drew the template of the snowmans body on white card. 

I then drew a triangle shape on orange card for the carrot nose. 

The children cut both of these out and stuck them onto black cardboard. 

Using two strips of red and green paper we created a scarf.

The children then snipped the end of the scarf to create a frayed look.

I gave the children a marker pen and they created their snowmans mouth. 

Finally, we used white paint and cotton buds (cue tips) to make the snow. 

The result... a super cute snowman looking into the sky at the falling snow! 

Let it snow, let it snow, let is snow globe!

Today my gorgeous class KS created the most wonderful snow globes. 

We used our imaginations to think about what our lives would be like if we lived  inside a snow globe. 

They children came up with many interesting ideas! 

As we have been learning about the senses I was able to incorporate this into the lesson. 

On the base of the snow globe the children were asked to think about what they would see, hear, smell and feel living in the snow globe. 

The base of the snow globe was from http://firstgradeblueskies.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/label-it-space-and-snowglobe-writing.html?m=1

I then cut out the centre of plastic plates and stapled them on to black card paper.

The children then pasted the bases underneath the plastic plates.

I took photos of the children and they stuck them inside the bowl (globe). 

Using a cotton bud (cue tip) the children dipped one end into white paint and dotted the 'snow' on to the middle of the globe around their photo. 

I was very pleased with how they turned out!