Winter Wonderland Classroom (Tutorials)

Each year we study the arctic and as we go along our classroom transforms! Here are a few of the cute projects we do to make our classroom a winter wonderland...

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! It's easier than it looks, I promise!


                      Arctic Tundra SceneSince 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. You can see they all tried to copy my poster in the middle with their own versions. 

Snowflakes

We made two kinds of snowflakes!

The snowflakes on the long black paper are made with white glue squeezed onto on wax paper. It peels right off after drying overnight and can be glued to anything! 

We experimented each day with some glitter-glue, and then some white glue with glitter sprinkled on top, both of which turned out to be beautiful. It was a fun surprise each morning to see how it looked after drying over night.

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.



We had our big buddies (grade 4) help us the first time, and after that everyone was obsessed with making them. Even the grade ones could make them independently! We now have twice as many hanging from the ceiling as we did when I took this picture.

                              

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