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    Winter Crafts for the Classroom

     

    Each year we study the Arctic, and as we study our classroom transforms into a winter wonderland!  Here are a few of the cute projects we do…

     


    Polar Bear Art

     

    If you’d like to try this, I have a complete tutorial. Click here to see it and give it a try with your students!

    Polar Bears

     

    Since polar bears aren’t the only ones who live in the arctic, we also made other arctic animals and glued them onto a long sheet of black paper. Most of them are made with construction paper and chalk or pastels.




    Snowflakes

     

    We make two kinds of snowflakes!

    1. The snowflakes on the long black paper in the photo above are made with white glue squeezed onto on wax paper in the shape of a snowflake. It peels right off after drying overnight. Try adding glitter while the glue is still wet!


     

    2. The second kind of snowflakes we made were the large paper snowflakes hanging in the picture above. I’ve been doing these ones for years, but there’s a tutorial on how to make them HERE.





    Letters to Santa

     

    Writing to Santa is one of our favorite writing activities, and the letters are so fun to read. I send them home so parents have some ideas for gifts. 

    Santa Letter

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    Free set of Dear Santa letters that are differentiated and include winter topics

    Pin this freebie pack for later!

    This is the Santa Letter Writing pack that I use each year in my classroom to write letters to Santa, and there's one for writing about winter for students who don't celebrate Christmas.


    Click HERE to read about more Christmas Kindness ideas, including this fun activity called Trim Santa’s Beard. Students trim off a bit of Santa’s beard after completing the act of kindness written on it! This is one of my most popular activities – students AND other teachers love it!

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    Easy art lessons for elementary students. Includes lots of writing extensions and a teacher script to read aloud as you introduce the topic. Enough to fill your entire year with art!

    Art Around The World has 18 easy lessons for elementary and read aloud scripts for the teacher, plus lots of literacy projects relating to each culture


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    9 Comments

    1. jbales

      November 15, 2013 at 5:47 am

      beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I can't wait until winter…thanks for sharing!
      Julie

    2. Sandy Welch

      November 15, 2013 at 6:26 am

      The polar bears and posters are absolutely amazing! Wow! Your room looks beautiful!

    3. Susanna Westby

      November 15, 2013 at 9:10 am

      Thank you, Julie! Our arctic theme goes so well with Christmas that we don't have much more to do other than making a Christmas tree!
      : )

    4. Susanna Westby

      November 15, 2013 at 9:13 am

      Sandy – they reminded me of the technique you used for your lovely fruit bowl art!

    5. Carolyn Kisloski

      November 15, 2013 at 11:19 am

      I love all of that winter art! As much as I don't want to see the warm weather go, I do love the snow flakes and being cozy. 🙂 The glue flakes are so neat! So are your 3D ones! I am going to try them this weekend!
      Carolyn

    6. MS. OCD

      November 15, 2013 at 7:39 pm

      Those animals are amazing! The polar bears and reindeer are just incredible!

    7. Susanna Westby

      November 16, 2013 at 12:45 am

      Oh good! Let me know how it goes!

    8. Aimee

      November 16, 2013 at 9:23 am

      Wow! I love it! I'm sure your students had a blast making all of it.

      Aimee
      http://www.primarily-speaking.blogspot.com/2013/11/five-for-friday-nov-15-2013-and-freebie.html

    9. Erin B.

      November 19, 2014 at 6:02 pm

      Hi Susanna!

      I just stumbled across this post from last year – I remember seeing these adorable polar bears and loved them! Do you have a lesson for them by any chance? I know you said you got the idea from somewhere else. I'd love to try them, but I'm not that artistic! If you can help feel free to email me at [email protected]

      Thanks!
      ~Erin
      Mrs. Beattie's Classroom

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