Easy Snowflake Christmas Ornaments

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I titled this craft as easy snowflake Christmas ornaments because that was our plan for this activity. However, my daughter has chosen to leave her snowflakes as decorations for her floor so it looks like it’s snowing in her room. It doesn’t matter if you turn your snowflakes into something to hang on the tree or something to facilitate pretend play like my 4 year old did. The fun is in creating them.

I was just digging through my craft closet looking for shiny things to glue on these foam snowflakes when my daughter saw the highlighters. They were still in their package and if there is one thing this girl loves, it’s opening packaging. Those packages that drive most people nuts, she sees as a personal challenge. All she wanted to do was open the pack but then she saw how bright they were. Together, we decided to use them to make easy snowflake Christmas ornaments. The results were awesome. These simple little snowflakes are so pretty and my 4 year old totally got into making them, carefully dotting the foam.

Gather your materials. You will nee some white foam snowflakes, highlighters in various colors and if you want to turn them into ornaments you will need some sparkly pipe cleaners. I have glitter glue in the picture but we never used it. You could but the simplicity of the colors on the white were too pretty to need any glitter.

Mix one ( or more) kids, some bright and fun highlighters and snowflakes!

Don’t you just love simple things? I loved watching her mutter to herself as she carefully dotted the foam. Also, I didn’t tell her to make patterns or keep the colors symmetrical but you could use this project to teach both. I just let her go.

If you are turning the snowflakes into ornaments cut a standard size pipe cleaner in two. Then poke a hole into the foam,and twist into a loop.

Or you can just keep coloring them! We were doing this for so long I had to go downstairs and start dinner. When an activity goes that well I will find more supplies and leave them out in the playroom. Sure enough, she found her way in there the next day to make more easy snowflake ornaments.

Books About Snow

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Here Comes Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara is another fantastic book that will have you aching for snow. A little boy is lonely after his friends have all gone into hibernation for the winter when Jack Frost shows up. They frolic and play, exploring all the fun that winter has to offer friends but when the first signs of spring arrive, Jack vanishes. The illustrations are perfectly simple and will suck you into a wintery world that you won’t want to leave. My kids love this book and after one reading at the library we bought our own copy.

Snowbots by Aaron Reynolds is funky, fun , and full of really awesome rhymes. The robot reality is a sweet one and my kids totally dug this book. We were picking favorite robots in the first few pages and loving the book more and more as we read. The story is a familiar one but with the substitution of robots instead of humans basic snow day things get more interesting. My son loved the snowball fight and my daughter was all over the pink robot. I loved how they had cereal with gasoline and an oil bath. A huge hit with all of us.

White Snow, Bright Snowby Alvin Tresselt is a total throw back to another time and it’s awesome. I love books that haven’t been updated because they offer readers a chance to go back in time and get a glimpse of the past. The story is about a town expecting a snow storm and how it’s different residents prepare and deal with it. The animals , adults , and kids all go about it very differently. The character that stood out for me was the policeman’s wife who doted on her husband and cared for his cold with a mustard plaster. I told you it was a total throw back! I didn’t know they still used mustard plasters in the 40s but that’s why these books are such treasures for kids and parents alike.

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