Snowflake Snowmen

This year the Third Grade Winter Concert was titled, Snow Day so in spirit, I decided to have the third graders design Snowmen out of Snowflakes!  

The first step was designing the backgrounds.  For inspiration, I read the students the book Snow Bear then the students began to draw on white paper with white crayon.  I encouraged the students to press hard and color anything they wanted to be white.

Next we did a watercolor resist by painting Cool Colors over the entire paper and voila!  Their snowy scenes appeared!  (some more than others!)






The next step was cutting the snowflakes.  This is a difficult challenge for your average group of third graders.  We started with the bottom, the largest snowflakes and folded the paper together following the steps hanging on the board and then the students began to cut.  This is where some students got frustrated trying to cut through the thick paper, but look how beautiful their snowflakes turned out!

The students and I did the next two sizes of snowflakes together each one getting a little harder to cut.  This way the students had some experience before getting to the smallest and hardest one for the head.  I chose to make the paper squares 6", 5" and 4"

The only thing the students had left to do now was decorate!  Boy did they love this part!  

These looked beautfiul hanging up for the winter concert!