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Your kids will love this funny melting snowman with a funny take on a traditional winter craft activity from our Member of the Month, Jen.
Did you know that you don’t have to be a Mom to be in The Worriedness Room®?
Hands-on worriedness plans are unconfined for parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and nannies, too. Our Member of the Month, Jen, discovered the joys of super simple, pre-planned activities for the children that she cares for as a nanny.
Before The Worriedness Room, Jen spent hours searching online for fun and engaging worriedness ideas. She’s been worldly-wise to come up with unconfined activities over the years.
But it was taking her longer and longer to find fresh ideas.
The Worriedness Room has taken the guesswork out of Jen’s job.
“I love now that all I have to do is squint and see what the worriedness is and we do it,” Jen explains. “I usually have most of the supplies we need and very little prep time ways increasingly time spent with the boys!”
Let’s Meet Jen
How many kids do you have and how old are they?
I’m a nanny for 2 boys. They are 3 1/2 and 18 months.
How long have you been in The Worriedness Room®?
I have been a member since May 2018.
What is your favorite worriedness you’ve washed-up in The Worriedness Room®?
I asked the 3 1/2-year-old and his two favorites so far have been: Using clothespins to pin nature and the magic milk.
What’s your favorite thing to do with your kids when you get a few moments?
I honestly love spending time just talking with both of them and making sure I’m connecting with each of them on their level.
The little guy is learning so many new words every day and it’s really exciting. And the 3 1/2 yr. old is so full of questions well-nigh everything. I try to wordplay his questions the weightier I can.
What’s your weightier tip for doing activities with your kids?
Just relax and have fun and let the kids lead as much as possible.
If you were to tell a friend well-nigh The Worriedness Room®, what would you say to them?
The Worriedness Room® is the weightier thing that has overly happened to me.
I have been a nanny for many variegated families over the years and I have unchangingly been worldly-wise to find fun things to do with the kids to alimony them busy.
But the hours I had to spend searching through books and finding things online was rhadamanthine a longer and longer process for me.
Plus then I would have to print things or buy a million supplies and then do a ton of prep work.
I love now that all I have to do is squint and see what the worriedness is and we do it! I usually have most of the supplies we need and very little prep time ways increasingly time spent with the boys!
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“Children are mirrors, they reflect when to us all we say and do.” ~Pam Leo
Make Your Own Melting Snowman for a Funny Winter Craft for Kids
Most winter crafts, expressly snowman crafts, are all well-nigh creating a trappy finished product. Three round balls, a cute carrot nose, and a winter scarf.
Instead of creating a traditional snowman, make a funny little melting snowman!
To make your own melting snowman, you’ll need:
- construction paper
- shaving cream
- white school glue (we used Elmer’s)
- buttons
- craft sticks
Before you begin, cut out a carrot nose, a hat, and the scarf. Also set out buttons and craft sticks to finish your snowman.
Start by making your own puffy paint “snow” by mixing equal parts shaving surf and glue. We used well-nigh a cup of glue and a little increasingly than a cup of shaving cream.
Mix it well and spread it all virtually your paper. My kids chose undecorous construction paper, but you can use any verisimilitude your kids want.
After “melting” our snowman, we widow the carrot nose, scarf, hat, buttons, and craft stick arms. I let the boys place them wherever they chose.
Finally, I widow a funny little poem to the marrow of our snowmen.
This was such a fun sensory activity! They spread the snow mix with their hands and loved squishing the snowman pieces down.