With the winter weather we’re having here, I thought to use a couple of snow books for our art project this week, but we only ended up using one of those books, but this one is so cute, it’s worth being just one project.
Synopsis: The two kids go out for a walk in the snow and their dog Snowflake comes out with them and gets lost. They ask all their neighbors and the neighbors misunderstand what they’re talking about. Finally Snowflake is found.
My kids loved reading this book and finding the dog. It’s fun to do, and not all that hard.
I took the easy way out for our activity and rather than searching out a clip art of a dog, I used my new Silhouette to cut out a nice little Scotty dog out of some scrap paper.
Then I set them to drawing a picture of the kids looking for their missing dog, and then they glued their dog on.
They’re kind of hard to see what they did, so here’s mine to get you a better idea:
There’s a cute little white dog in the corner, which in the picture you can only see his head because that’s the only part of him that is over something I colored. The kids LOVED this activity and book, so I need to find some ways to do a similar project.
Very cute activity!
Do you like the silhouette cutter so far?
This is a cute activity. I am so ready for life to slow down again so we can get back to some crafts.
I love the pictures!
Cutting systems, like your Silhouette, make crafting SO MUCH EASIER! (I am personally in love with my Cricut…)
Very cute. We haven't read this book! I'll look for it.
Very neat idea! It's perfect that you can't quite see the dogs in the kids pictures – he'd be so much harder to find that way.
Their white dogs are really hiding in the snow. We have that book…I like how some of the characters are shown in non-traditional roles.
This book sounds like fun, and now I can see why the dog was named Snowflake. Great idea to ask them to contribute to the scene!
We had to learn about snow thru books and fake snow!
Snow and dogs. What's not to love?! My kids would love this too.
Love seeing young illustrators at work! We've not read that book, we'll have to check it out!