Snowglobe Stories & Art

Just for fun we did some activities with Snow Globes! I have a collection of Snow Globes I put out in the wintertime at my house. So  I bring a few into class the day we read  The Snow Globe Family.

This cute picture had an “Angry Bird” flying overhead….hehe….so cute!

 Some of my snowglobes are large and have snow scenes inside  but others are just snowmen  I have a Valentine one that has a heart inside and snows red glitter.

We all brainstorm and come up with ideas on the board for characters to write adventures in a snowglobe for writing workshop.

 And we watch the PIXAR Youtube about a poor snowman stuck inside a cold snowglobe. It is really cute.
I added it a little further down this post.

Description under our  Bulletin Board….

This author does the “Fancy Nancy” stories and Nina Ballerina series too…..

Here are our finished Snow Globe Stories….out in the hallway ….I typed up their titles and we glued them onto the Snowglobe black  bases….

Creative Snowglobe stories for writing workshop…..

I loved some of their cool illustrations too…..

We shared our stories after we were done…..and used our best expression….

Lots of stories were about winter activities….some were about  the character wanting to escape his snowglobe…

Here’s a snowglobe sticker art project from		Oriental Trading

This will be Super fun! We will start by reading The Snow Globe Family by Jane O’Connor who also wrote the Fancy Nancy and Nina Ballerina series of stories.   Start out by having the kids talk about their own families and who they want in their story.   Then we’ll do a brainstorm and list the main characters, and of course the setting of their story will be inside a snowglobe. But there must be some sort of problem that happens. Write a list of 12 different kinds of winter problems that could happen inside of a snow globe.

Reading The Snowglobe Family is where we will start the activity…..

A great website that had lots of neat pictures of kids’ snowglobe art was HERE at Faithful Attempt Blogspot.

We are working on using really interesting describing words….and some adverbs too!

Can you find some $100 dollar words in any of these?

We went through the entire writing process….

I forgot to have the kids add some silver glitter glue for snowflakes….

That would add a lot to the artwork I bet…

Now, the problem will have to be very creative… as a class we brainstorm problems a child could have being stuck in a snowglobe…boredom, snowball fights, ice skating or skiing competitions, making a new kind of hot chocolate drink, sledding down a too-steep mountain, building a snowman that comes alive, reading by the fire that keeps going out, or maybe getting sick of winter?  Maybe the problems could be something they want that they see outside the globe, but they can’t have it….kind of like how the Little Mermaid wanted legs to go live on land. Then the kids will have to come up with their own solutions.

The kids also learned that they can capitalize Title Words…..

So they all made up Titles for their Stories…..

You should have heard them discussing and sharing creative titles….so funny!

I definitely have the best job in the world….I get to crack up hourly at the funny things they say and do…..gotta love em….

Great job by everyone!

Pretty Snowglobe Art projects…..

They all worked hard. going through the sloppy copy, editing, and  then doing their final copies and illustrations…..

We have 28 cute snowglobe stories out in the hall with darling art…..We used sharpie markers to outline to make our artwork stand out a bit more…that is a trick I learned from an art teacher….

We drew a favorite scene from our stories cut from 7 inch circles on white construction paper. Then we put a black “holder” on the back which is just a giant black triangle.

A Pixar Youtube short movie we’ll watch to get our creative juices flowing. It is very cute.  

 I encourage the kids to write about something funny that actually happened at their house (losing something important, a mess that was made, a family outing to a favorite place, somebody’s special day, etc.)

Finished stories with Titles typed up and glued on the black triangles of the snowglobes….

 This is a great winter bulletin board. And it’s a lot more fun than the January “Here are our New Year’s Goals” bulletin board.

A craft I thought was cute but kinda too much work I saw on the Martha Stewart Website HERE. It is a snowglobe made from small baby food and olive jars, glitter, glycerin and distilled water.

Ideas are from the Clever Feather Art blog

These were pictures I got inspiration from….but I liked our class’ snowglobes the best….

 Happy New Year everybody!