stART: "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs

Today, as part of all our snow themed activities,
we read The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.
It is a picture book (with absolutely NO WORDS)
which paints a picture of the adventures a young boy
has with his snow friend one magical evening.

To go along with the story, the girls and I created snowmen
out of empty coffee creamer containers.

The supplies we used for the craft included:

Empty, de-labeled, cleaned coffee creamer containers
Black beads
Buttons
Felt scraps
Scissors
Tacky glue/hot glue gun

We began the craft by gluing the eyes (black beads) and nose (orange felt scraps) on the part of the bottle just below the lid.

(Now, I discovered that the beads and buttons tend to slip off the bottle with just the tacky glue, so I went back after we finished the project and re-glued those pieces with a glue gun.)

Next, we cut out scraps of felt and glued them
onto the bottle around its "neck" to create a scarf.

(We had an "audience" during our activity today...)

The girls finished the project by picking out buttons for their snowmen
and gluing them onto the bottles.

***Again, I re-glued them with the hot glue gun later.
If you want your children to be able to this project with little assistance,
my recommendation is to do the craft with felt scraps for the eyes and buttons too.***

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