Make a Polar Bear

I read that today is International Polar Bear Day so why not celebrate by making a polar bear craft or two or three or four?

Handprint Polar Bear Craft
To make this polar bear you simply paint the palm or the hand and fingers white and press it onto a colored piece of paper. The head is made out of a thumbprint and then you can add the other details using black paint or a black marker.

Bubble Wrap Polar Bear Craft
This bear is made from a variety of circles and it is mounted on it’s own piece of ice — which is bubble wrap to me and you.

Polar Bear on Ice Craft
This cute polar bear gets it’s texture by tearing out the paper shapes instead of cutting them out. I think it is a simple, yet very sweet project.

Puffy Paint Polar Bear Craft
This cute little fella is made using a paper plate as a base. His ‘fur’ is made by brushing on a mixture of white glue and shaving cream. The directions for this project suggests using an Oreo cookie for a nose, but I would strongly discourage that since it will be glued on.

Will you try one of these crafts to celebrate on this special day?

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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