Easy Button Snowflake Craft

Once Christmas and Hanukkah are over it feels like we’re facing a long winter without much to celebrate or decorate. But snowflakes are a fun motif that we can keep using for crafts through the winter season.

If you have a stash of craft sticks and white (or blue, or really any colors you like) buttons, this snowflake craft from Red Ted Art is low prep and pretty easy to make for kids with good gluing skills.

These are fun to hang in windows or anywhere else that needs a little brightening up this time of year.

Head to Red Ted Art for all the details.

[Photo: Red Ted Art.]

Use recycled buttons to create colorful button art. Simply glue the buttons onto a piece of paper or canvas in a pattern or design of your choice. This is a great way to use up small buttons and create a unique piece of art.
Use recycled buttons to decorate a picture frame. Glue buttons onto a plain picture frame to add a pop of color and interest. You can use different sizes and colors of buttons to create a unique look.
Use recycled buttons to create a button bracelet or necklace. Simply thread the buttons onto a length of string or elastic and tie the ends together to create a fun and colorful piece of jewelry.
Use recycled buttons to decorate a cardboard box. Glue buttons onto a cardboard box to create a colorful and unique storage container. You can use different sizes and colors of buttons to create a one-of-a-kind design.
Use recycled buttons to create a button mosaic. To do this, glue buttons onto a piece of paper or cardboard in a pattern or design of your choice. This is a great way to use up small buttons and create a beautiful piece of art.

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Hanukkah Learning Activities for Kids

As I write this, back to school time is right around the corner, and if you have kids going to school for the first time or who might need a refresher on what school is like, books can be a big help in calming fears and letting them know what to expect.

School Days by Fabiola Sepulvelda is a wordless picture book full of photographs of various things that happen during the school day, such as leaving home, getting off the bus, greeting your teacher, raising your hand to talk, circle time, reading, quiet work, lunch, recess, art and music, and greeting your parent at the end of the day.

This is a nice book to prompt conversations about the way things might look and things that might happen at school, and could also be used in the classroom to talk about routines and what happens each day. It’s meant to be for kids who don’t yet know how to read, but could be used with older kids as well.

Ready for School by Dona Herweck Rice and illustrated by Amanda Morrow follows a little girl through a day getting ready for school and thinking about all the things that happen at school. It covers things like calendar time, mat time, being read to, math (they’re learning to count to five), recess and art. She’s so excited to go she wakes her mom up and it’s still nighttime.

This one is good for kids who like reminders of how the routine goes (both getting ready for school and being there) and those who might be apprehensive about what’s going to happen or if it will be fun.

The same author has a series of books that are meant to be for ESL learners but would work for others as well. Welcome to School has photos and single words or short phrases for things you do to get ready for school, different ways you might travel there, greetings, morning meeting activities. people you might see at school (like teacher, student, custodian), places and objects you’ll find around school, things at recess and school rules (like line up and raise hand).

Your School Day uses longer phrases (“riding in car” instead of just “car,” for example) and older children in the photos. The routine is also for older kids and uses bigger words like announcements and equipment. It also shows photos of different subjects kids might study, different kinds of learning groups and more people and places you’ll find in school.

A Day at School is kind of in between these two, with older elementary students going through many of the same things. This one doesn’t mention morning meetings but also doesn’t use the level of vocabulary of the book for older kids. Either this one of Welcome to School would be fine to use with young kids who already speak English but might like to see all the things and people they’ll see at school.

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