It's Winter (but not really in Alabama!)

It's winter time! Well, like my title says, not really where we live in Alabama but at least it is in the Alligator room! The craziness of living in the South - 60-70 degree Winter days! We spend January in our class learning about Winter, Seasonal Clothing, Snowman, Penguins, Bears & Hibernation and Emotions & Manners. I am bringing you three different crafts we have done in this post!

I decided it would be fun to practice spelling our names and recognizing the letters by building a snowman with our names. My aide and I each sat with a child and let them tell us the letters to spell their names. Our kids are all 3 now so we are working very hard on this!

Seasonal Clothing is not always the easiest craft idea. So I thought it would be more fun to paint plates skin color and then add eyes, construction paper hair and ear muffs. For fun, they stamped a snowflake and sprinkled iridescent glitter onto a tongue like they were catching snowflakes!

The kids loved this craft as they got to eat a sweet treat once they were finished. I created a dotted line snowman on my computer and then we cut them out and glued them on light blue paper. We helped outline the circles with glue and the kids got a container of marshmallows to create their snowman and trace along the dotted lines. Of course, once done, they got to eat their leftover marshmallows.