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Snow Globe 2D Art and Writing Freebie!

December 10, 2012 By fancyfreein4th

This month, the 4th grade team were responsible for the bulletin board in the front office.  We were trying to think of something creative and new and I stumbled across this CUTE Snow Globe idea from Fabulous in Fourth!  on Pinterst.

Here is what you need:
– clear plastic dessert/appetizer sized party plates- we got ours at Party City because the one’s at Target said “Made in China” on them.
– pictures of your students posing
– crayons or colored pencils for your student’s to make a background
– white poster board to trace plates on for the back of the snow globe.
– glitter glue to make the illusion of snow falling from the globe
– a hot glue gun to help all the parts.

For the writing, the student’s wrote about their Winter Traditions. We use our circle map to come up with things we do over the winter holidays.

The student’s came up with many ideas including: decorating the Christmas Tree, taking a family picture, making tamales and playing in the snow.

Then, they chose 3 items from their circle map that they wanted to talk about. They used the flee map describe these 3 events in depth.

As they were writing, I took them outside, one by one, and had them pose like they were doing one of their events.  My fast finishers helped me trace out 30 circles using the plates and poster board.
The next day we cut out the pictures and drew backgrounds.

I put on the glitter glue once they were all done and they dried over night.  On day 3, I assembled them as they finished their final drafts.  Using hot glue, I secured the plate to the top of their pictures and created a really simple trapezoid base out of construction paper.

…..and viola! The students LOVED this activity. They were so motivated to work on it from beginning to end. It was fun for them to share their holiday traditions with everyone and see what they have in common and hear about things other families do.
If you are looking for a cute writing activity to do before break, I’ve bundled the Thinking Maps I used for the writing activity here on my TpT store for free!

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Filed Under: bulletin boards, crafts, freebie, holiday, snow globes, TpT, Uncategorized, winter 7 Comments

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  1. Jennifer says

    December 10, 2012 at 1:24 am

    Your snow globes look fabulous! I will have to try this with my 4th graders. They make such a beautiful display!

    Jennifer
    Elementary School Garden

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  2. Diane R says

    December 10, 2012 at 1:44 am

    That would be something fun to do in January! Thanks!

    Diane
    Fifth in the Middle

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  3. Lisa says

    December 10, 2012 at 2:15 am

    I am in LOVE with this idea!! I had planned on doing some type of snow globe and writing the first week back from break, but wasn't sure of the details. I adore the 2D globe and personalizing it with their photo. Thanks so much for sharing….I am totally borrowing this idea!!!

    Lisa
    Super Pig and Tyrant King

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  4. Kelly Hall says

    December 10, 2012 at 11:59 am

    I love how they came out! Thanks for the shout out.

    Reply
  5. Michelle Griffo says

    December 10, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    Adorable, Layla!
    Michelle

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  6. Collaboration Cuties says

    December 10, 2012 at 10:33 pm

    Sooooo cute! I love it!!!

    We just started blogging (we teach 4th too) and we are holding a giveaway until Wednesday. If you leave a comment on our blog you will get an item for free from our TpT store. If you have a chance, please stop by and check us out. We are following you!

    Amanda and Stacia
    Collaboration Cuties

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  7. Lindsay Topolewski says

    December 18, 2012 at 2:18 am

    I think this is adorable! I ran out of time before leaving for break but I definitely think I will make this a project for when we get back. Perhaps still for traditions of winter…we will see! They turned out awesome!

    Reply

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