Instead of using a Snowman Mrs. Bean had bought at a store to decorate our door, we decided to make one ourselves! We read the book "Snowballs" by Lois Ehlert. We paid close attention to the material she used to decorate her snow people with.
First step was to make 3 snowballs. We searched the room and found a hoola hoop, a sorting circle and clock to use as tracers for our snow person's body.
Next, we cut them out. We brainstormed different material we could use to make him look fluffy. Kleenex, cotton balls and white feathers did the trick.
Then we put our snowballs together. We had to decide what to use to decorate him. He needed a face!!
We found some acorns for his eyes and nose, pom poms for his mouth and sea shells for buttons.
We used tissue paper to create a hat and used a pine cone as a pom pom. He has 2 forks as arms and pine needles to stand on.
Voila! Our very own classroom snow person!
