This is a great art project to go along with the Ukrainian folktale, The Mitten by Jan Brett. We read the story together and discussed why the story is considered a folktale and what happened in the story that is unrealistic. Students were give blue paper and white colored pencils to fill their paper with snowflakes of different sizes and varieties. Next, students traced their hands in the shape of a mitten and added lines, shapes, and colors. Lastly, for some fun detail we added a yarn string and a giant die-cut snowflake and some glitter!
We recently did mittens with my first graders,they designed them,then stitched around the edge of the mitten. Once completed, they became magical mittens and our students wrote about where their magical mittens took them.
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