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January 19, 2015

Snowflake Shape Kites

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This is the season that the snow starts to fly!  We love to fill our windows with tons of paper snowflakes each winter.  These snowflake kites came about when we were making a bunch of paper snowflakes one day, and my Little Guy (age 3) said, “What if snowflakes were kites in the sky?”  We thought about it and decided that miniature frozen kites would be pretty amazing.  We decided to make a batch of our own!

Of course, Mom had to add a learning twist to our snowflakes, and we make ours with a shape matching activity too!

Snowflake Shape Kites! A fun, winter-y way to teach kids about shapes while practicing cutting!

Paper Snowflake Shapes Activity

How to Make Shape Snowflakes!

Start with your favorite pair of scissors and a piece of white paper.  We used printer paper, but snowflakes are fun to create with many different materials besides paper;  Try coffee filters, cupcake liners, newspaper, or fabric.

How to Cut Paper Snowflakes!

Fold the paper into triangles and cut the shapes.  Because we made shape snowflakes, I cut one shape per snowflake.  Snip your shapes onto the folds of the paper.  Remember that when you open the snowflake, the shape will be double the size if it is cut onto a fold.  If it’s cut onto an edge, you will have half of a shape.

How to Cut Shapes into Paper Snowflakes!

We made triangles, rectangles, and circles in our snowflakes.

Snowflake Cutting and Shape Activity for Kids

Big Sister (age 7) needed some heart action, too.

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Shape Identification with Paper Snowflakes

Save those scraps!  Now is the mom-wants-us-to-learn part of the craft.  We sorted the scrap pieces into piles of shapes.  Little Sister (age 3) really got into this part of the activity.

Shape Learning Activity for Kids

She sorted the shapes into piles and we worked on shape identification as she sorted.  She needed a little help with some of the shapes.  Like calling the circles instead of “ornaments”.   She might have Christmas on the brain.

Snowflake and Shape Preschool Craft

We used thread and glued the shape scraps on a long strand of thread.  You cold use other things besides thread, like ribbon, string, or fabric.  Big Sister made her snowflake kite using pink yarn.  Add a small bit of glue right at the fold of the shape scrap pieces.  “Sandwich” the thread between the two shapes.

Shape Snowflake Kite Craft for Kids!

We hung our snowflake kites on the wall and are having fun imagining real snowflakes as miniature kites! Such a perfect snowflake shapes activity for winter.

Snowflake Shape Kites! A fun preschool shape activity and craft for winter!

The Sugar Aunts are three sisters who blog about
all things creative in motherhood.  They love playful learning, creative kid’s crafts, sensory and fine motor activities, kid’s party themes, DIY, and so much more.  Between the three Aunts, there are 6 cousins (with more on the way!) who are around each other so often, they are more like siblings than cousins! You can see the action at www.sugaraunts.com.  Follow along on Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Instagram.

About Colleen SugarAunts

Colleen Beck, OTR/L is an occupational therapist with 20 years experience, graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. Colleen owns and authors www.theottoolbox.com, where she inspires therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Colleen is passionate about play and strives to empower those serving kids of all levels and needs.

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