Winter Gifts

I had a fun time with the kids making these "Let it Snow" plaques for them to take home as presents for their parents.

We started with chipboard, then layered it with scrapbook papers.

{I love how the plaques look like a big quilt when they are placed together side by side.}

I cut out the felt trees with my die cut machine. The students loved the machine, and I let them each crank the handle to cut the trees. We even made a math problem out of the whole process; we estimated how many trees we could cut using the felt I had on hand. After we had determined that we could get 3 trees on each piece of felt, they divided 21 (the number of students) by 3 and knew we would have enough because I had 7 pieces of felt.  They figured that all out on their own, and I was really happy to see them using math in an "every day" experience. I am forever telling them, "Math is all around us!!"

After the scrapbook paper, the students glued on the felt trees and little pieces of paper "lace". They also picked out buttons and threaded thin bits of small vintage string through each button carefully. They glued the buttons on the trees after deciding exactly where each button should be placed.

Finally we made hangers for the plaques with thin pieces of wire, attached a small "let it snow" banner and a piece of ivory tulle to each one, and applied lots of glitter (of course!)

So much fun!

let it snow!