Snow Many Snow Globes!

I love snow!!!!  (I really do)

We finally got our first storm of the year.

We began the month of January with the writing prompt, "If I Lived in a Snow Globe." I saw so many great examples of the craft (on Pinterest) and wanted to incorporate it with a writing lesson. 

We first brainstormed a list of what we should include in our prompts.

• a great beginning
• how I got in there 
• sensory images
• figurative language
• feelings
• what I would do in the snow globe
• a great ending

The children were very excited and could not wait to start.  I had them use a four-square to organize their stories.  I conferenced with them and had them publish on a border snowflake paper.  I ran it through the copy machine to make it lined.

I used this pattern for the base

I purchased clear plastic Chinet plates at Target.  I traced them to make a globe template.  The kids traced and cut them out on the blue poster board.  They added snow on the bottom and stamped the trees and snowflakes (stampin up).  They cut out their photos.  I had the kids put a handful of fake glitter snow on top in the middle.  I used a hot glue gun to attach the plate.  I found it was easier to hot glue after all pieces were attached to background paper.

Here are examples of the final products:

 My Little Snow Angel!!!!