Materials
white tempera paint
shallow paint dishes
9" x 12" dark blue construction paper
large and small, empty, plastic (not Styrofoam) thread spools with end
labels removed
precut snowflakes or doilies
white glue
markers
Instructions
1. Pour white paint into shallow paint dishes. Give each child a piece of
dark blue paper.
2. Encourage the children to dip spools into paint and print "snowflakes" all
over their blue paper.
3. If desired, children can draw a face on a precut snowflake or doily and
glue it on their picture. Or, encourage them to draw, paint, or glue a
snowman at the bottom of their picture.
More to do Language: Encourage the children to dictate a story about where their
snowflakes go.
Music and Movement: Play gentle music and encourage the children to
pretend to be snowflakes floating and twirling in the sky.
Outdoors: On a snowy day, take the children outside to catch snowflakes
on black paper and examine them with a magnifying glass.
