Wonderful Winter Art

In PK we’ve been learning about winter! We’ve discussed all the ways this season is unique: the colder weather, the warmer clothes we wear, the shorter days and longer nights, and how we sometimes get SNOW!

We made some snowman art to decorate our walls.

This allowed us to practice cutting skills making stick arms and a carrot nose.

We used fine motor skills to paint a face and buttons with a cotton swab and black paint.

And little hands got a workout squeezing white glue snowflakes falling all around the snowmen.

Best of all was when we sprinkled beautiful silver glitter over the glue to make the snow shimmer!

This week we made more winter art. First we read two books with the same title of Red Sled, and then we had fun creating our own version of a scene from Lita Judge’s Red Sled book, the story of a bear who borrows a sled he finds and has quite an amusing adventure.

We started this art by finger painting a snowy background. We used white paint and a little blue and teal because we saw that the illustrators in our books used those colors to show shadows on the snow. We even sprinkled our wet paint with salt to give it the crystalized look of frost and snow!

The next day, we got to draw a face on a little die cut bear and then added it, along with a red sled and some snowflakes, to create a scene just like the ones from our book.