Classroom Snowman Ideas for Preschool and Elementary
Updated with Styrofoam Cup Snowman Tutorial and more Snowmen from our Pinterest friends who tired it! So, you want to make a plastic cup snowman for your classroom door or bulletin board. It's so cool, but how do you do it? Check out this Styrofoam cup SNOWMAN entered in a teacher's door decorating contest.
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Scroll down the page for our favorite classroom snowman decoration ideas and the how to make the door snowman from plastic cups. Enjoy!
Styrofoam Cup Snowman: This Classroom Door snowman was designed for a door decorating contest. Yes, he won! But, the question is...
How do you make a snowman for a classroom door from Styrofoam cups?
The serious answer is very, very carefully with lots of patience. Plastic Cups are easier to staple than Styrofoam cups. They also have more give when assembling the snowman. Try using sticky Velcro strips to attach your snowman creation to the door, wall, or classroom bulletin board.
This one was created by Destinie S. and uploaded to Pinterest. Click Plastic Cup Snowman with lights to see the video with flashing lights. Great job! |
Good news! We found a video that shows how to make balls from plastic cups. In the video, you'll see that they make two halves and attach them to form a ball. So, you'll only need to make one half and then attach it to the wall. However, if you make the entire ball , you can make a stand alone cup snowman decoration. Check out this cute one, made to look like Olaf from Frozen!
Plastic Cup Snowman made to look like Olaf! We found this one at diycuteness blog. Get LEGO OLAF on Amazon. |
diycuteness also shared this plastic cup snowman for the classroom door. |
How to Make a Snowman from Plastic or Styrofoam Cups:
Watch the video above to learn how to make a classroom door snowman from plastic cups. In the video, it shows how to make balls to make light decorations for parties. You can adapt this method to create the snowballs to build your snowman on a door.
Get short Styrofoam cups like the plastic cups in the picture.
FYI: We tried making the Styrofoam cup snowman several times. We finally made something resembling a circle, but never felt it was a good enough snowball to share. However, we tried it with tiny medicine cups which were difficult to staple. And then, we tried using glue to attach Styrofoam cups together. The method in the video with regular size plastic cups stapled together seems to work, but the circles are difficult to get perfectly round.
Good luck, you're going to need it!
- While you're at it, turn your kids into snowman with this cute snowman craft for the class! Then, place them all on your winter bulletin board.
The original source seems to be a teacher's album
- We found some great Snowman crafts at OrientalTrading and fun, free snowman worksheets at TeacherSherpa.com. Check out our post and follow along on Instagram to keep up with all of our crafty classroom activities!
Winter Bulletin Board: Snowmen, Penguins, and Snowflakes on Amazon. |
- Make a Snowflake Snowman! These are a fun classroom craft for the winter months. Go to Amazon to get snowflakes to make the mobile.
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