{"id":3653,"date":"2013-12-11T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2013-12-11T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:33:50","slug":"a-fun-snowman-project-that-reinforces-math-skills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3653","title":{"rendered":"A Fun Snowman Project that Reinforces Math Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN16691-e1386793674703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN16691-e1386793674703-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snowman\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN16691-e1386793674703-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSCN16691-e1386793674703-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKids love to do hands-on projects.  We can use that as an opportunity to reinforce a lot of important skills.  This fun snowman project helps kids identify and describe shapes, practice counting and writing numbers, and hone their fine motor skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supplies needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-colored construction paper<br \/>\n-scissors<br \/>\n-glue<br \/>\n-hole punch<br \/>\n-felt (optional)<br \/>\n-craft items for the buttons and eyes (pom poms, round jewels, round stickers, etc)<br \/>\n-traceable circular objects<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Using the size of the construction paper \u201ccanvas\u201d as a guide, help your child go on a circle hunt around the house for two objects that can be traced to make the body of the snowman.  Use the words large and small to describe the circles.  Option:  Use three circular objects so that there is a small, medium, and large circle.<br \/>\n2. Help your child trace the objects on white construction paper then have her cut them out and glue onto the canvas.<br \/>\n3. Have your child use the hole punch and black construction paper to punch out circles for the mouth.  Count them as she punches them out.<br \/>\n4. Using orange construction paper or orange felt, draw a triangle for the nose and cut out.  Talk about triangles having exactly three sides.<br \/>\n5. Make a scarf out of construction paper or felt by cutting two long rectangles.  Make small cuts on one end of each rectangle creating the fringe.  Discuss rectangles:  shapes that have exactly four sides and four corners that make an &#8216;L&#8217; shape.  (Note:  squares are special rectangles that have sides all the same length.)<br \/>\n6. Using brown construction paper, cut out rectangular \u201csticks\u201d for the snowman arms.<br \/>\n7. Cut out two rectangles for the hat using black construction paper or felt.<br \/>\n8. Glue all the pieces to the snowman including the eyes and \u201cbuttons\u201d.  If you are using pom poms, describe them as 3-dimensional shapes we call spheres.  (The 3-dimensions are length, width, and height.)<br \/>\n9. Help your child count how many of each geometric shape was used in the snowman and record them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids love to do hands-on projects. We can use that as an opportunity to reinforce a lot of important skills. This fun snowman project helps kids identify and describe shapes, practice counting and writing numbers, and hone their fine motor skills. Supplies needed -colored construction paper -scissors -glue -hole punch -felt (optional) -craft items for the buttons and eyes (pom poms, round jewels, round stickers, etc) -traceable circular objects Directions 1. Using the size of the construction paper \u201ccanvas\u201d as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3653\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,76,46,44,184,45],"tags":[102,81,64,21,94],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-family-math-night-2","category-geometry","category-kids-and-math","category-elementary-mathematics-2","category-number-sense","tag-common-core-state-standards","tag-family-math-night-activities","tag-k-5-geometry","tag-karyn-hodgens","tag-number-and-operations-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Fun Snowman Project that Reinforces Math Skills - Karyn&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3653\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Fun Snowman Project that Reinforces Math Skills - Karyn&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kids love to do hands-on projects. 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