Description: We began by designing three different snowflakes. The first two snowflakes we copied the design of both of the teachers. The third snowflake was our own design. We had three little pieces of paper. We took each of those papers and folded a corner to another corner to form a triangle. Then we took the triangle and folded it again to make a smaller triangle. Then we drew our design - squares, circles, triangles, etc. We then cut out the triangles along the pencil lines. After we cut the triangles, we glued them onto a piece of blue construction paper. Once we had the triangles glued, we layered glue on only our snowflake we designed ourself. Once we had a good amount of glue, we took a small cup of salt and dumped the salt on the glue (to make it stick). After, we took the paper to the garbage can to dump the excess salt off. We brought the paper back to our spots and took watercolor. We dabbed the watercolor over the salt to make the snowflake look crystalized. Once the project was finished, we did a gallery walk and had to write down three observations that we noticed.
Extension Activity: Instead of blue construction paper and white snowflakes, I would do white construction paper and have them glue blue snowflakes; so then, for an extension activity, I would have the students add a winter background by drawing. They could draw things like snowy hills, houses, snowmen, etc.
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