My students always get excited when I tell them it is time to make Christmas art projects. I like to start early so I have the finished work decorating around on time.
This year I had lots of A4 light brown cardboard, so I decided to paint snowmen there instead of the usual light blue cardboard, and asked my Grade 2 students to use the white tempera paint to paint a hill (or a flat ground) followed by one or more snowman, with two or more “bumps”. Once that is completed, they can add snowflakes with paint and/or stamp white dots using Q-tips (earbuds). My students LOVE to splash white paint on top of their artwork but this year my Grade 2 classes are quite big and I decided we would stamp snow instead. Let dry.
Next class I handed brown and black markers to add eyes, mouth and arms, I told them to keep it quite simple this time, so they look cute, “today less is more”, they then could choose buttons from a container and some sparky snowflakes I found at a craft store, and glue them up with white glue. Once they finished that part they came to the front table where I had orange paint and added a nose, then took their work to the drying racks. It was a quick and simple project to put together, and the snowmen turned out really cute!
Enjoy.
1st Class Art 