Keeping Owen (age 2) busy while we do our home school work is a perpetual challenge… I am always on the lookout for things that keep him busy at the table or on the floor near us, but that don’t generate a ton of mess. Last night, I had the idea to make this quick and easy snowman activity for him, and he was very happy with it!
It works kind of like paper dolls. I cut snowman “parts” out of felt, and Owen can sit at the table and build a snowman by sticking the pieces to a piece of blue felt as a background. Right now, I only have two hat options, but I’m hoping to add some more parts to it today!
Owen was very interested in building the snowman! I’m thinking that I could make a lot more of these in different themes – spring trees with leaves to stick on, dinosaurs, ice cream cones with different color ice cream scoops to put on, etc.
By the way, I apologize for the absence of Lunch with the Composers this week! I ended up coming down with strep throat over the weekend, and I’m finally getting caught up today. The Lunch with the Composers feature may be a little sporadic until after our baby is born (early January), but then I’m planning to get back to doing it every week again. My kids won’t let me quit – Owen especially has really gotten into classical music!
Adorable! We’ve dressed up gingerbread this way, and I’m sure my kids would love to add snowmen to our collection!
I Love love love love felt! And I love this, was actually thinking of it other day! Watch for my felt gingerbread man/girl coming soon! We’ll have to do a snowman for our winter unit if January! Pinning this!
What a fun activity! We’ll have to bring out our felt board! (wherever it is?)
What a fun felt activity! We have done something similar with making a pumpkin. For those without a felt board, you can glue a piece of felt onto an empty cereal box and put the felt pieces inside the cereal box when not in use.
He is so cute! What a great idea!
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