Snowman and mitten activity boxes for preschool

Our activity boxes this week consisted of snowmen and mittens…

In the snowman activity box we placed paper plate snowmen shapes and small felt cut-outs for the childrern to add as buttons, eyes, nose, scarves…

The snowman activity boxes (just as we do each week) were then placed on classroom shelves for the children to select from this week during their free play time in centers.

I happened to catch this little girl while she was exploring one of the snowman activity boxes. There was no need to explain what to do with the materials in the box – she got the idea as soon as she saw what was inside…

Something she did that I hadn’t expected was sit and fold each paper plate snowman up. She really liked that fact that you could fold the snowman and decided that it would also be fun to hang the snowman on our mitten clothesline…

Which brings me to our mitten activity box which was also available on the classroom shelves for the children to play with this week…

The mitten activity box simply contained laminated mittens, clothespins, and yarn. The teachers helped stretch the yarn across the room and tied the ends to two chairs for the children to hang up their mittens…

This group of children worked together to hang up all the mittens…

We will have to see if we can find a higher place to hang up the clothesline next week:)  We could have expanded on this activity by encouraging the children to find matching pairs or put the mittens in numerical order, but instead we just let the children play and make up their own rules of play as they went along …

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Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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