It's Cold Outside

Since we returned to school following Christmas break, the children have been busy with many new center time activities. One of the favorites is creating snowmen out of playdough.

The Friday preschool class painted snowflakes that were taped out on their papers. We used four different shades of paint and sponges for these paintings. (This is an idea I got from one of my favorite blogs, Frugal Family Fun. It's a great resource for fun activities you can do with items you probably already have at home.)

They are beautiful!

I added the preschool class's snowflakes to a display of polar bear paintings that the pre-k students painted. They enjoyed learning about how to add texture to their artwork by using different tools. For these paintings we added salt to watercolor paint for the sky and we put saran wrap over the blue tempera paint to make the snow/ice texture. We really enjoyed the results!