Looking at Snowmen In an Unusual Way

It's always fun to create snowmen art, especially in the south where we rarely get enough snow to make a real one!  Our kindergarten classes read Snowmen at Night, by Caralyn Buehner.  As we read, we discussed the different viewpoints and the blues that were cast on the snowmen from the light above.  

We began by tracing around our various sizes of circles with different shades of blue using chalk pastels.  The next step was to blend the blue towards the center.  This project allows for some practice with using scissors, which is always a good skill to reinforce with the little ones. After gluing our large and medium circles to our background paper, I gave the students some choices of colors for the scarves, which I had precut.  The scarf layer was glued and then the small circle was glued on top.  Each student had two rectangles in which they cut slits on one end.  This was then folded up somewhat to look like the fringe of the scarf.  We rubbed a little more blue onto the ground to represent shadows and then added details.  This is such a fun little project!