Snowflakes

This week, I had the great opportunity to lead a craft project in Jack's preschool class. The theme for the week was winter - while this presents many great craft projects, it was tough coming up with something that three year olds could do. So I do what all moms do, I turned to Pinterest. I found several great ideas from toilet paper roll penguins, to marshmallow igloos, to snow globes. I settled on snowflakes.

The project involved threading three pipe-cleaners through paper rings to form a six-point snowflake. I added beads to each pipe-cleaner to hold the paper rings in place (gluing the circles together would have made this project a bit too time consuming).

I headed in with all of the materials (including several that we never used) and got to work. The kids were great. They listened carefully and got to work right away, concentration showing on their face. Their favorite part was adding the beads. I learned that if you give a three year old a cup of beads, they will attempt to use every single bead in the cup. Kind of a funny thing to learn.

Ms. Emily, Jack's teacher, hung the snowflakes in the hall outside of the classroom. I think that they turned out great!