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Spool Stamped Snowman Art for Toddlers

January 16, 2017 by Sheryl Cooper

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 Inside: If you’re looking for easy and fun, you will love this snowman art for toddlers. Simply gather some empty thread spools, paint, and paper!

Toddlers love to stamp objects.

You might recall our toddler ocean art painting, and our color mixing with paper tubes.

This is the same concept. Instead this time we used empty sewing spools.

It turned out to be such an easy snowman art activity for toddlers! They got to do what they love most: moving objects up and down. Having fun at the art table!

snowman art for toddlers

We love process art, even when we tweak it a bit to fit a certain theme or season.

Over the years we’ve found that our toddlers prefer process art as well.

They love hands-on exploration as they use different materials for their creations.

Since there is no desired end result, the children are focusing on the method itself.

Our experience is that toddlers are more engaged with these types of activities, too!

toddler preschool process art

Spool Stamped Snowman Art for Toddlers

Many years ago someone donated a huge box of empty sewing spools.

We have used them for counting activities at our math table, for stamping with play dough, and as loose parts in our block corner.

After cutting snowman shapes out of paper, I realized the spools would resemble snowflakes when stamped in paint. We’ve done white paint on blue paper, but for this particular activity I decided to go with the color scheme we were using that week, a blue tone.

We had lots of white “snow” at our play dough table and sensory bin so we knew that snow is not blue unless it is tinted.

What you will need:

  • Empty sewing spools
  • Blue or white tempera paint
  • White or blue paper

 

toddler winter art

Setting it up:

Cut paper into a snowman shape.

Pour a shallow amount of paint into a tray and place the empty sewing spool in it.

The process:

Show your toddlers how take the spool with paint and stamp it onto the paper.

It’s as simple as that.

(Yet again why we love process art!)

toddler winter art

Young children love the stamping motion that takes place. Action art!

They also love the noise as the spool hits the paper.

(Fair warning that this is not a quiet activity!)

toddler winter art

Some toddlers will find out what happens if they slide their spool across the paper instead of stamping.

Oh, and they might stop and focus on a spot of paint that gets on their finger.

Because that’s what toddlers do!

Related: Snowman Bubble Wrap Process Art

toddler winter art

Some toddlers might recognize that the spool is the shape of a circle.

toddler winter art

When finished:

As your toddlers finish their snowmen, place them on trays or a drying rack.

How to display:

It’s up to you how to display these process art snowmen, but I will share what we did.

I used a hole punch at the top of each one and then used an opened paperclip as a hanger.

Our snowmen were then hung from a curtain rod in our window.

You all know how I love to display the children’s artwork any way that I can!

toddler winter art

Dancing snowmen in the window!

toddler winter art

Books to Go With This Activity

More Snowman Ideas

Color Matching: Colors in the Cold Snowman Activity

Color Matching: Snowman Color Puzzle

Circle Time: Snowman Props 

Circle Time: Five Little Snowmen

Playdough: Build-A-Snowman

snowman art for toddlers

 


More activities for toddlers:

Toddler Painting Using Legos

10 Fun Toddler Science Activities

20 Easy Toddler Activities for Home

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We’ve done the work for you! We have toddler (18-35 months) AND preschool (3-5 years) winter themed activity plans!

Explore a variety of hands-on activities!

Easy to follow activity plans include modifications and adaptations to meet the needs of all learners.

Comes with recommended reading lists, songs, material lists and more!

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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