Snow Globe Learning Activities

Last year I did a post all about snow globe crafts, but this year let’s try to make it a little more educational with some learning activities with a snow globe theme.

This snow globe letter find from Kindergarten Worksheets and Games is a fun one for kiddos learning letter recognition. Each letter has its own sheet and there are upper case and lower case letters to find in the flurry of the snow globe that can be circled or covered with do a dot marker.

Speaking of dot markers, they’ll also come in handy for this roll and cover dice game using a snow globe printable from The Kindergarten Connection. This is a great way to practice number recognition and understanding that the dots on the die and the numeral mean the same thing.

Use a marker or cotton balls to find and cover letters of the alphabet in this activity from Fun Learning for Kids. You could also use buttons or tiny erasers. The printable set here includes the snow globe with letters inside and a set of cards with images on them. Kids cover the letter of the beginning sound of the image on the card.

If you have a white shipping box handy you can make a snow globe counting and fine motor activity as shown in this video from Happy Tot Shelf. Draw a snow globe and poke holes in it, then kids can stick cotton swabs in the holes. They can use a die and count out a certain number, or you can give them a few and have them count how many there are as they place them.

Or do some winter counting with these printables from Preschool Play and Learn. The snow globe has room for snowflakes, and the printable cards tell kids how many to place. Again you can use buttons, beads, cotton balls or anything you have handy to decorate your snow globe.

This one is a bit of a craft because it includes making a snow globe for the child’s picture to be stuck in but you can also just use the writing prompt “what would you do if you were trapped in a snow globe?” Get all the details and the craft instructions from Teach Create Motivate.

Check out the kids craft section on Craftbits.com

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Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 each year (because it celebrates the time period when several countries gained their independence) and it’s a great time to bring in some Hispanic inspired crafts and foods. For an overview on the celebration, the difference between Hispanic and Latino and the importance of the holiday, as well as a look at Latino art and famous Latinos and Latinas, check out this post and related information from the National Museum of the American Latino.

Spanish Playground has a great collection of craft ideas that you can do in Spanish class or with kids in any class or at home. It includes things like weaving, making mola (folk art from Panama; learn more at Kid World Citizen), doing an artist study of a Hispanic artist and more.

Crafty Chica has a great collection of crafts, coloring pages and printables for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with kids. I love this coloring page inspired by Amante bark painting, but there are also folk art stamps, corn husk dolls, tile painting ideas and more.

Papel picado is a classic folk art from Mexico that will feel familiar if you’ve ever made a paper snowflake. Learn how to make them from tissue paper with this video from Hispanic Society Museum and Library.

Learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month, get recipes and crafts from PBS Kids. I love this Peruvian siku flute, which can be made with old markers or paper straws.

While not exactly a craft, playing loteria (a Spanish language bingo game) is a fun thing to do with a group of kids. Free Kids Crafts has printable bingo cards with basic Spanish vocabulary and images for people who don’t already know these words.

And if you need a little snack when you’re done crafting, try these no bake mini tres leches cakes from Inspired by Family. They’re made with purchased pound cake so they’re pretty fast and easy.

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