Snowmen to Melt Your Heart

We had such fun this week creating our bird's eye view snowmen!

However, the project started in a boring manner. 

Very.

Very. 

Boring. 

Mrs. Beliveau asked everyone to draw white snowflakes on white paper. 

Ummm ... not exactly exciting, now is it?

However, soon the boys and girls were "ooooohhhh-ing" and "aaaahhhhh-ing"! Using water-based tempera paint, we were able to make our snowflakes appear, as if by magic! 

As our paint dried, we set to work on our snowmen. Using pastels, we traced the three balls of the snowman's body and used our fingers to smudge the pastels inward. 

After Mrs. Beliveau hot-glued the three snowballs together, including a little stack of cardboard in between to make each ball "pop" out, we were ready for the next step ... details!

Noses, arms, buttons, scarves, eyes, and even a few eyelashes were added to give our snowmen personality!

Look how charming!

Our Snowmen are Stars!

It's official! Our art is famous!

Our Bird's Eye View Snowmen that we made last month have been placed on display at the Strathcona County Library for the month of January! Better head down and have a look! 

Our students' beautiful art has received many rave reviews! Boys and girls, you're famous!

Mrs. Beliveau and Julia, checking out the snowmen. 
Despite Julia's grumpy look, she did love the display!

Famous Snowmen!

Well, our snowmen aren't exactly famous ... yet! But we're pretty certain they will be soon! For the month of January, our bird's eye view snowmen will be featured on a special bulletin board at the Strathcona County Library!

We had such fun this week creating our bird's eye view snowmen!

However, the project started in a boring manner. 

Very.

Very. 

Boring. 

Mrs. Beliveau asked everyone to draw white snowflakes on white paper. Hmmmph. Not exactly exciting, now is it?

However, soon the boys and girls were "ooooohhhh-ing" and "aaaahhhhh-ing"! Using watercolours, we were able to make our snowflakes appear, as if by magic! 

As our watercolours dried, we set to work on our snowmen. Using pastels, we traced the three balls of the snowman's body and used our fingers to smudge the pastels inward. 

After Mrs. Beliveau hot-glued the three snowballs together, including a little stack of cardboard in between to make each ball "pop" out, we were ready for the next step ... details!

Noses, arms, buttons, scarves, eyes, eyelashes, and even a set of kitty ears were added to give our snowmen personality!

Look how charming!

Tomorrow a lady from the Strathcona County Library is coming to share some winter-themed books with us, and will gather up our snowmen to post at the library. Be sure to head to the Strathcona County Library in the new year to see our kids' famous snowmen! They'll be there all January!

Project inspired by Ariel View Snowmen at tinyartroom.