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We have only had one minor snow so far this season, but those first few flakes were enough to make Thing One and Two start running through the house exclaiming, "Frosty's Coming! Frosty's Coming!'
With no more snow in the immediate forecast, I was thrilled when my sister came up with this fabulous idea--A Balloon Snowman/woman!
We have not made ours yet, but I couldn't wait to share.
Here's what she did:
She took 3 white balloons and blew them up to different sizes: big, medium and small. With the top of the balloons facing forward, she then taped the balloons together biggest to smallest.
Next, she folded a sheet of white computer paper in half and cutting an L shape about 2" from the edge of the paper to make the arms, so shoulder to elbow is the long side and elbow to wrist is the short side. She then taped the top of the arm onto the tops of the middle balloon.
For the hands or mittens, she used construction paper and taped them on the arms. She used black round stickers for the buttons and the white ones for the eyes. She drew the iris of the eyes, eyelashes and mouth using a sharpie, but you could also use googly eye stickers.
The nose is an orange sticky note with orange high lighter colored over, then rolled it into a cone. She then made perpendicular cuts to the edge of paper on the large end, to make tabs, which she folded down to create a place to tape the nose on. You may have to cut off some excess so the edges don't show.
Finally, she made a bow for the girl, earmuffs for the boy and a scarf for each. All made out of construction paper and taped on.UPDATE:
We made our snowman this afternoon, and the girls had a blast!
They tried every hat in their dress-up box on him, trying to make him come to life. Every time Thing One put on a new hat she said, "Happy Birthday!"
They sang to him, gave him high fives, kisses and hugs. It truly was a magical, memory making activity, that I don't think they will forget for a long time.
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