Snowman Cards

We created this activity by adapting our "Piecemeal" Scarecrow activity. The scarecrow piecing activity was created with inspiration from a local occupational therapist. Putting pieces together in a certain order to form a person allows the child to create a figure as including many types of body parts- although the snowmen don't have legs, they do have two circles, eyes, nose, mouth, arms, hat & buttons. Gluing and handling the small items is also great fine motor skill practice. Additionally, adding many body part components to the snowman can help with the body awareness portion of many kindergarten readiness screenings. 

You will need:
white paper (we used stiff art paper as it is stiffer and easier to manipulate than a thin, floppy piece of standard paper)

standard school glue in squeeze bottle

embellishments (foam, pipe cleaner pieces, pom poms, buttons, jewels, eyes, fabric scraps for scarves, felt, etc)

card stock paper or construction paper for cards

envelopes

We pre-cut the circles for this activity so they would fit onto our 5" x 7" cards. They were about 2"-3" in diameter.

Setting the other items out, we allowed our artist to work on creating each unique snowman.

Write a sentiment on writing paper and glue on the inside.

And you have snowmen built in the warmth of your home or child care setting.

If you have snow....hooray! Bundle up & go out and build a real one