Baby, Its cold outside

To celebrate the first snow fall, we talked about snowmen today. We started the day off with snowmen pancakes. They are really easy, make the snowman shape out of the pancake mix while on the griddle. Then add some chocolate chips (or raisins) before you flip it the first time. Put on the plate and add marshmallows for snow underneath, I added whipped cream snowflakes on the sides. You can also have bacon for a scarf or arms- but the kids didn't want that. 

 For Craft today, we made "baby, it's cold outside" cards. I started with the shapes all cut out. I also gathered glue, and sparkle paint. 

 The kids glued the circles on, in size order- biggest on the bottom, smallest on the top. Then added a scarf and hat. 

 Once it was all glued on, they painted on some "snow" with the sparkle paint. 

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! 

Ghosts at night

This craft takes a couple steps. But, the kids love doing all of it! I got the idea from a friend of mine, who saw a picture of it on www.pinterest.com I added a couple things to ours, so the kids would have more to glue on. 

First, you will have to paint the kids feet and hand, this will need time to dry before you do the next step. You will need brown paint, white paint, paper (any colour) and paint brushes. I also have wipes handy so I can just wipe their hands and feet clean after! 

 I started with their hands and arm, paint those brown and press onto the paper. Then do each of their feet, one at a time, white! 

 After those dry, you can cut them out and draw a face on each foot (the heel is the head of the ghost). 

Then gather the rest of the stuff you will need for the craft- black paper, glue, sparkles (or glitter glue). We also cut out a paper moon, and an orange pumpkin out of foam. 

 Have the kids glue the ghosts (feet), tree (hand), pumpkin, and moon onto the black paper. 

 Then add more glue and put the sparkles on (stars).

 Then we have ghosts at night!