Snow Flakes

Description: For this activity we talked a little about what snow flakes are and how each one is unique. We followed the teachers snow flake designs before we created our own. The top two snow flakes are the teachers designs that we followed, and the bottom middle one is our own snow flake that we were able to design on our own. After making our snow flakes we glued them to the paper and then we used the glue bottles to create lines and designs on our snow flakes. Then we put salt all over the glue to create a textured frozen look. After we put the salt on our snow flake we used water colors to add color to the salt. We then observed everyones snowflake and we had to write three things that we noticed about the different methods or design elements that people used to create their snow flakes.

Extension Activity: An extension activity you could use for this project is taking a deeper look at how snowflakes form and taking a closer look at snowflakes and the differences in their designs. This would probably be during a science class where you learn more about how they form and then look into why snow flakes are all unique and what about their creation process makes them unique.

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