Fingerprint snowmen/snowmen at night

Today, we made fingerprint snowmen. To go along with our craft, we read Snowmen at night- so we made our pictures be, snowmen at night!

First I collected the paint, paper, and brushes.

 Then we painted one hand black- for the tree. And then on the other hand, we only painted the fingers (we just did the 4 fingers, not the thumb, just to make it easier!).

After we pressed our hands onto the paper, we made the rest of the snow, and the trunk of the tree. And then stamped our brushes on to make some snow. 

 After they dried, we drew faces, hats etc on the snowmen. I took the picture before the kids coloured them- but they can colour them too!

AND- tomorrow, I am going to be starting 25 days of Christmas Crafts- type of advent calendar. I picked 25 crafts, because that is how many day home days are left until Christmas (like work days!). So check back Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday to see what new Christmas Craft is here!

Icicles

Today, we welcomed November. And where we are from, there is usually snow! So, we took down our apple tree at the front entry and added some icicles to the tree! They are really easy to make, for any age group and you can use them anywhere! 

First I collected everything we would need, white painting paper, brushes, and 3 different colours of blue paint. Then some clear glue (as long as it dries clear you are good), and sparkles. 

 Then the kids went to work, they started by painting their page with all the different blues. They covered the whole thing (if you use white paper it is fine if they leave some of the white showing). 

 Then we put glue all over the paper. We like to hold the glue bottle up higher and just move our arm around the whole page, so there is no order to it! 

 Then, add the sparkles! 

 After the whole thing dries, we cut them in icicle type triangles. You can make them different lengths, thickness etc. This is a GREAT cutting activity for preschoolers! Then you can hang up your sparkling icicles!