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Ben's First Snowman

So, while I've been kind of over the snow, it has had it's upsides too.  Ben got to build his very first snowman and he was so excited.  Yes, he was a tiny snowman (the snow was too powdery), but Ben didn't care.  He'd only been asking to make one for days. Because the snowman was so small, we had to be creative with his face.  We used a stick for his nose, a part of a Dorito for his nose and blue berries for his eyes. We all took pictures with it.... ... and then Ben decided that our snowman wasn't quite done. Right now, Ben is very interested in the differences between girls and boys and decided our snowman needed a "guy."

Snowman craft

Tonight we got together as a family and did Ben's snowman craft.  Ben was excited to show Daddy how he likes to glue things. What you need: construction paper scissors crayons or a pen glue 3 circular objects of different sizes to trace, or if you're daring then you can ignore this 1.  Trace the 3 circular items on white paper and cut them out. 2.  Cut out an orange triangle for a carrot nose, several black circles for his coal eyes, mouth and buttons, and brown stick arms. While we were cutting out the pieces, Ben was coloring a snowman picture. 3.  Glue the circles together to make the body and head. 4.  Glue the stick arms on your snowman. 5.  Glue on his eyes, nose, mouth and buttons. 6.  Glue him onto a background paper.  (We did this so you could s...