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by Sheryl Cooper
Inside: This easy toddler snowman art activity is all about the process! We used brayers to roll paint across bubble wrap, making a print onto snowman shaped paper. Super fun!
Rolling paint on textured surfaces make the best prints, and that’s exactly what we did with this easy toddler snowman art activity. By now you must know our love for bubble wrap, right?Remember when we made rainbows from bubble wrap? Well, this easy snowman art uses the same technique. Rolling the paint across the bubble wrap works the muscles in the shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, and fingers. These are the types of activities we love to do for future writing!
Grab some bubble wrap and get ready to watch your toddler have fun!
How to Put Together an Easy Toddler Snowman Art Using Bubble Wrap
What you will need:
Recycled bubble wrap
Blue paper, cut into a snowman shape
Felt scraps for scarf (cut into a strip that can tie around snowman)
Eyes (I found some clip art online)
Get started!
Pour paint into a shallow container. Dip brayer into it and then roll onto the bubble wrap. This is the fun part, so it’s okay if your toddler wants to roll over and over and over again.
When your toddler is finally winding down, place the paper on top of the painted bubble wrap. Show your toddler how to rub the paper as it presses onto the bubble wrap.
Pull the paper off the bubble wrap and show your toddler the print. You just might get a nice smile. Your toddler just might want to do this again!
Let snowman dry thoroughly. Then, add eyes with a glue stick or white glue. Tie felt around the neck.
Our toddlers were so happy to show off their snowmen!
We hung ours on the bulletin board so they could be admired for awhile. Toddlers love seeing their work displayed!
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Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.
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What fun! I found you via TGIF Linky Party and am a new follower. I have a new meme called Thematic Thursday and this week’s theme is Winter/Snow. I’d love to see this post linked up. Find Thematic Thursday here.
Thanks, Diana! I will go and check it out!
Fun idea! Stopping by from TGIf Linky Party
I’m happy you stopped by, Tiff!
This is great! Would you please share this with our readers for Fun Stuff Fridays? http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2012/01/fun-stuff-fridays-6.html
Thank you, Lindsi! I linked up with your Fun Stuff Fridays!
How Fun!! will try this with my daughter soon who LOVES ice cream 🙂 would really love it if you could share this here –
http://www.mamamiasheart2heart.com/2012/01/sharing-saturday.html
thanks so much and have a great weekend.
~MiaB
I was happy to find your Sharing Saturday! Thanks!
What a fun idea! I bet the kids enjoyed this!
They really did! I wish the ice cream wasn’t so soft, but then again, it did make scooping a lot easier. I’ve found that they really enjoy activities when they get to bring things from home to contribute. I have a feeling there was a lot of leftover Halloween candy in there!
Super cute!! We almost made these this week too!! Instead we made mashed potato snowman the kids decorated with veggies =-) Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a great week,
Beth =-)These are soo cute, and look yummy! Might have to do something similar with my kiddos!
