We made this easy polar bear mask:

You’ll need: 2 paper plates, black paint, pink paint, pipe cleaner, yarn, one section of an egg carton.

Paint the egg carton section black.

Cut an ear shape from your second paper plate and then have your child add some pink to it.

Cut out eye holes, put everything together, add some yarn and you have a polar bear mask.  Hailey did not want to wear hers… oh well!

We did a mini theme about polar bears a couple of weeks ago and I never got around to finishing posting our projects. Here is a cute little book idea about polar bears.

First we read some of Hailey’s books about polar bears.

Then we made our own:

Hailey painted and added snow flakes to one of the pages in her book.

Hailey painted some water on one of the pages.

Here are the completed pages of her book:

Hailey told me what words to write on the left hand side of the page.

This page was painted with white, then Hailed added some clear glitter, then added some sequence for snow flakes.

Hailey added a black nose and black eyes using a marker.

On this page Hailey added ripped up tissue paper for the padded feet.

And on the last page Hailey added blue paint for water.

I did a little mini theme about polar bears with Hailey.  One of the projects we did was a winter scene.

Here’s what you’ll need: blue paper, polar bear, tissue paper, white paint, glue, something to paint with, glitter.

Paint your paper to look like snow.

Sprinkle on some glitter.

Add some crumpled up tissue paper.

Paint the polar bear white.

Glue on the polar bear.

The completed picture.

I saw a really cute snowman made out of a soda bottle in a magazine so we decided to give it a try.

First you’ll need- an empty soda bottle, white paint (*we used Tempra paint, and I do NOT recommend using it for this kind of project) and something to paint with.

First cover the soda bottle with white paint.

While the paint dries, gather the rest of your supplies:

Sticks, tissues, glue, felt for a scarf, pink paint, wiggle eyes, sock, orange paper and a pom pom.

Stuff some tissues into the sock and glue the pom pom on to the top of the sock- this will be the hat.

Dot some pink paint on for cheeks, add eyes, nose, mouth, scarf and sticks.

The finished snowman.

*You should probably use acrylic paint if you do this.  We used Tempra paint and the paint started flaking off of the bottle as it dried.  It was actually difficult to finish the project because when Hailey tried to add things to the snowman the paint would fall right off.  So, the idea is really cute- just use a different kind of paint.