The really amazing thing about this book is how it appeals to such a range of ages. That is until the bear sneezes! The illustrations are busy in a beautiful way that will have your children finding new things every time you read this book. The Mitten by Jan Brett is the perfect match for this craft and such a sweet book about a mitten that somehow keeps stretching as more and more animals crawl inside. BookĪll book suggestions include affiliate links. All our activities are meant to be made with adult supervision and involvement. If your child wants to play with their creations simply skip the string altogether. Please please do not allow young children to play with anything with a string like this unsupervised. I can’t help it I am going to add a warning that you all probably do not need but I can’t help but include. Punch a hole in each and attach a string. A quick trip to the bathroom (What? You don’t store extra art supplies under your bathroom sink?) and I was back with a few more pink ones. She had just counted all the pink pom poms and realized she was one short to have the same number on each mitten. I hadn’t put out any markers or planned to have her draw but this is exactly why I love having all our materials within reach while we craft because she can grab what she wants to use. Next trace or have your child trace their hand.Ĭut out and voila you have just cut out two mittens.ĭecorate. Start by folding your card stock in half. You will need some card stock, yarn, a hole punch, pencil, scissors, white glue, and whatever collage material you are using. I’d chosen to craft alongside her adopting some of her ideas into mine to model collaboration from time to time. Crafts are limited enough, but samples tend to limit children’s creativity even more. I urge you to avoid showing samples to the kids. Having fun, I made my own mittens craft too. I thought that would be a fun contrast between the smooth card stock and the soft squishy pom poms so I raced to get them before she changed her mind. I asked my daughter what she wanted to add to mittens and she looked at me like I was asking the dumbest question ever.

You can make this a lesson about matching or textures, or you can just grab a hodgepodge of materials and let the kids create with wide open boundaries.

The wrap counts, the final pompom size and density, how much you need to trim will vary.This fun little winter mittens craft is simple to set up and fun for a wide range of abilities. It’s also possible that you’ll need to trim a lot more with other makers than you’ll be doing with Pom Maker. This may not be doable with other makers. Other pompom makers may be limited to less wraps, or burst when you come to cutting if you wrap too much.Īlso with Pom Maker, you can wrap each half freely with different designs, so we’ll be wrapping the face side of the panda first, and then the back side to follow as a separate part (or you can wrap each part together with a friend). For example, we’re wrapping quite a lot of yarn here to make a dense pompom as Pom Maker can take a very thick layer of wraps, but you may not be able to wrap the same amount with other pompom makers. It is possible of course, but there might be some differences and you may get different results. We often get asked about using different pompom makers other than Pom Maker for our tutorials.

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