Materials
Winter mittens or oven mitts
Yarn, buttons, felt scraps, pompoms, rickrack, and other notions and trimming
Scissors
Glue
Fabric paint
Glue gun
Instructions
What to do
1. Invite the children to decorate a mitt or mitten with the various sewing notions and fabric
paint.
2. Help the children glue the decorations on; afterward, secure the decorations to the mitten with
a glue gun, reminding the children that only an adult may touch the glue gun.
3. If they choose, invite the children to create a second character on the other side of the mitten,
to be worn on their opposite hand.
More to do
More art: Create finger puppets with old film canisters.
Language: Using mittens, create characters from nursery rhymes or favorite stories, and recite the
words with your mitten friends.
