These snowman crafts for preschool: all about me activity--making snowman are excellent to use with a unit on winter. This craft can be used alone as well. A good book choice would be The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll. This craft also encourages development of fine motor skills. You can even use it to teach about circles.
White construction paper or Manila paper
Crayons/markers
Yarn of various colors
Construction paper
Fabric scraps (optional)
Scissors
Craft glue
Compass or patterns to make circles
Old magazines
Googly eyes (optional)
Before you do this craft, measure out three circles for each student. You will be making a typical snowman, so measure out circles that are different in size for the head, the middle, and the bottom. The size of the circles is up to you. It is a good idea to make an all about me snowman of you to use as an example.
Pass out the circles to each of your students. Explain that today they are going to make snowmen that look like them. In other words, they will be making an all about me snowman. Have students glue the three circles together.
Then, pass out the art supplies that students will use to decorate their snowmen. Fabric scraps are great to use as clothes. Construction paper will work too. Have students use yarn as hair, and give them googly eyes if you are using them. If not, students can use construction paper scraps to make eyes. Let students be creative when decorating.
After they have finished decorating their snowmen, pass out the old magazines to your students. Have them go through the magazines and find pictures of things they enjoy doing, foods they enjoy eating, or toys they like. You can let them pick out anything that shows something about what they like to do. An option for you is to pick out three things about you from the magazines to use as an example. As students find pictures that they want to use, have them cut out the pictures and glue them to back of their snowmen.
These snowmen make a great classroom or hallway display. You can hang them throughout the classroom or put them up on a bulletin board. A wonderful title would be, “Snow, Who Am I?” For even more fun, have parents come in and try to guess which snowman is their child’s.
A great way to expand this craft is to have students decorate a snowmen family. The snowmen family will be comprised of who is in the student’s family. Use the snowmen families as a hallway display.