When it comes to arts and crafts for pre-school aged children a pad of construction paper can be your best asset. Kids make all kinds of cool art projects by just using construction paper, scissors, a glue stick and markers. Crafting with the kids doesn’t have to be expensive, it just has to be fun!
Last weekend I sat down with my grandson to make a Paper Snowman with this quick and easy project. If you want to turn it into an educational session you could talk to the kids about snow, playtime safety while out in the snow, how cold it needs to be, what temperatures will melt snow into water, and so forth.
Kid’s Crafts – Paper Snowman Refrigerator Art
1 Sheet Blue Construction Paper
1 Sheet White Construction Paper
1/4 Sheet Black Construction Paper
1/4 Sheet Brown Construction Paper
Black Marker
Pencil
Scissors
Glue Stick
To make our white circles we traced around the opening of a champagne glass to get our pattern and then duplicated it until we had 5 white circles. We made the sixth circle slightly larger to serve as the snowman’s head. You will need a white circle for each letter in the child’s name or the word that you plan on spelling. Just trace the circle onto white paper using a pencil. Let the child cut out the circles.
You will need to then determine the size of your blue rectangle by laying your circles out on the table. We wanted our rectangle to be approximately 1 1/2 to 2″ larger in size than our snowman once he was assembled. Next…have the child trace out arm shapes on brown construction paper and a top hat on black construction paper using a pencil. Cut out the pieces.
Have the child assemble their snowman as shown in the photograph by placing all of the pieces onto the blue rectangle using a glue stick that is made for paper (scrapbooking glue stick). Use the black marker to add a letter onto each snowball and to add the snowman’s facial features. That’s it…done! You can now hang it up onto the refrigerator as a piece of wintertime refrigerator art!
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This is a cute project and it should be easy to do with my granddaughter. I have all the supplies on hand.
What a cute and fun project for kids. And a good way to get practice with writing one’s name. Time to replace the refrigerator art I have with this cute snowman.
That is so cute. I have so many of those cherished items from my boys.
I like it children are please by time you are spending with them. This can be made with a few items.