Step Inside a Snowman

Today with our Boulan Buddies we did an art project and we also took a "step inside a snowman."  Before our buddies came we read the book Snowmen at Night.  It is a story about what all of our snowmen do at night while we are sleeping.  As a class we pretended to step inside a snowman body and think about what a snowman hears, may feel and sees.  Some of the kids came up with:

A snowman sees...

• children playing
• children wearing winter coats
• sky, moon
• trees
• snow
• cars going by in the road
• a house
• children making snow angels

A snowman hears...

• children laughing
• doors to the house open and shutting
• garage door going up and down
• snow crunching as people walk on it
• cars zooming by
• animals running by

A snowman feels...

• worried they may melt in sun
• lonely because they don't have friends
• happy because someone made them
• sad an animal ate their carrot nose

After their discussion they recorded their thinking and then made a snowman out of a coffee filter.  See our photo link for a project sample and also pictures of the kids in action.