Today, I have kindergarten crafts for winter an easy and fun polar bear fork painting. Also, grab my other tips, ideas, and crafts for kindergarten on my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum and Best Homeschool Unit Studies.
Winter is the perfect time to learn about adorable arctic creatures like the polar bear.
Kindergarten crafts are a great way to introduce the topic or reinforce something you have already taught your child.
This craft is cute and gives your child an opportunity to work with a familiar medium in a new way.
Learning about winter animals opens the door to learning about other topics like:
- hibernation,
- insulation and blubber,
- species they may never see in the wild,
- nocturnal creatures,
- weather,
- and learning about different habitats around the world.
Start with this activity but you don’t have to stop there.
I have great hands-on activities to round out an arctic animal unit study that you will enjoy right alongside your child.
Books for Kids about Polar Bears
Then, add some fun polar bear books and resources.
10 Polar Bear Study Fun Resources
You can study about polar bears anytime although including them in a winter unit study would be fun.
These beloved children's stories are now available in beginning reader format.With the important pre-reading concepts of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, these picture books have long been used as beginning readers.
The polar bear is the biggest and most powerful of the animals that are able to survive the hostile climate of the Arctic. Cubs are born during the cold dark winter, even though they start out with only a thin coat of fur and weigh a little over one pound.
The polar bear is the largest terrestrial carnivore, uniquely adapted to thrive in the harsh environment of the Far North. In The World of the Polar Bear, renowned nature photographer Norbert Rosing follows the polar bear through each season.
SET OF 10 FUN AND FRIGID FIGURES – It’s hard to stay warm at the North Pole, but you can discover its wonders in your home with these frigid friends. This TOOB includes a Harp Seal, Husky, Caribou, Arctic Rabbit, Killer Whale, Walrus, Arctic Fox, Beluga Whale, Igloo, and Polar Bear.
Add Ocean Anatomy by Julia Rothman from the Anatomy Series to your homeschool library, just the photos alone have a lot to offer but are chock full of great tidbits. There are pages on polar bears, other arctic animals, and glaciers. It is a great addition for the entire family for a reference book.
The Arctic might be a bit too chilly for humans to live there, but it is the perfect home for polar bears. But the earth is getting warmer and the ice is melting. Where will the polar bears live? How can we help protect their home?
This 6-inch Polar stuffed animal is ready to be your neighbor with its igloo house.
The high-quality materials of this plush toy are lifelike and irresistible to those of all ages looking for a fun companion.
Back in a time when people and animals lived together in harmony, a bear-child is stolen away from his mother. A hunter and his wife find the child and, wrapping him in sealskin, they sing him songs of the ice, the wind and the great white bears. One day the child wanders off and a bear comes to take him back to his mother.
Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis.
POLAR BEARS FIGURE FAMILY GATHERING - TOYMANY 4PCS Polar Bears Family Playset includes 1 standing bear, 1 walking bear and its bear cubs. Kids would like to be the host to hold a family gathering with them.
Next, add in some hands-on Arctic animals activities.
Hands-on Arctic Animal Activities
- Work in some science with this Inuit of the Arctic: How Animals Survive Harsh Winters Fun Blubber Activity.
- Easy Hands on Snowflake Winter Craft for Kids Who Don’t Have Snow
- Another great simple craft project to do with your child is this Easy DIY Fun Salt Winter Watercolor Art Project for Kids.
- Create an Easy and Fun Pine Cone Snowy Owl Winter Craft for Kindergarten with a pinecone harvested from your own backyard.
- Make these cute and yummy Easy Polar Bear Graham Cracker Squares.
- Free Easy Arctic and Inuit Science Lapbook & Unit Study.
In addition, you’ll find other kindergarten homeschool resources below.
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum And Crafts
- How to Make A Fun ABC Flip Book Fingerprint Activity for Kindergarten
- Homeschool Kindergarten Life Science – Hands-on Fun Nature Tree Study
- 40 Awesome Earth Science Movies for Kindergarten
- Growing a Seed Activity For Kindergarten Science Kids Activity
- Native American Activities For Kindergarten Create A Fun Cradleboard Craft
- Rainforest Science Activities For Kindergarten Amazing and Fun Living Terrarium
- Pond Life for Kindergarten Activity Build a Fun Beaver Dam
- Easy and Fun Pine Cone Snowy Owl Winter Craft for Kindergarten
- 4 Fun and Engaging Bat Activities for Kindergarten
- Native American Crafts for Kindergarten How to Make a Kids Pinch Pot
- 10 Best Homeschool Phonics Curriculum For Kindergarten
- 15 Fun Resources For History for Kindergarten Homeschool
- 19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten
- Rainforest Crafts for Kindergarten: Make an Easy Paper Plate Monkey
- How to Create the Best Homeschool Schedule for Kindergarten (free printable)
- 60 Favorite Top Homeschooling Materials for Kindergarten
- 10 Affordable and Complete Homeschool Kindergarten Curriculum
- How to Effortlessly Blend Kindergarten Homeschool Subjects & Life
- BEST Free Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum With A Gentle Approach (List)
- Delightful Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum Which Promote a Love of Learning
Then, look at some polar bear movies.
- Watch Polar Bears for Kids by Homeschool Pop.
- Check out the Wild Kratts Polar Bear & Walrus Rescue.
- A Walk in The Arctic by Scholastic.
Last, here are some polar bear facts which your child will love.
5 Polar Bear Facts
- Polar bear skin is actually black.
- You can find Polar bears in the Arctic, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, and Norway.
- Polar bears clean themselves by rolling in the snow.
- They don’t hibernate but like to stay warm in the winter by sleeping inside of a den.
- Polar bears can be up to 10 feet long. Demonstrate with a tape measure to give your child of how big that is.
Now, have some fun by making this polar bear fork painting.
How To Make A Polar Bear Fork Painting
You will need:
- Blue construction paper
- White, black, gray, and pink craft paint
- Googly eyes
- Craft glue
- Plastic fork
Directions:
Squirt some white paint in the center of a blue sheet of construction paper.
Demonstrate for your child how to use the fork to pull paint out from the center, creating a big “furry” circle.
Add more paint as needed to fill it in.
Use light gray craft paint or mix some up by adding a very small amount of black paint to some white paint.
Paint your child’s palm and press it in the bottom center to create a muzzle, or they can just paint it in with a paintbrush
Paint only the heel of their hand and stamp an ear on one side of the top of the circle.
Load the heel up with paint again and do the other side.
Allow majority of paint to dry and paint your child’s thumbs pink and press them inside the ears.
Glue googly eyes onto the polar bears face.
Next paint a thumb or a circle on the heel of their hand black paint to stamp a nose on the muzzle.
Finally, to finish off your polar bears face let them paint or draw on back to back J shapes
Add snow to the rest of the painting by dabbing dots with their fingertip or a q-tip in white paint and letting them “stamp” around the rest of the page.
Let their painting dry and then put it on display. Don’t you agree how fun is it the way that the fork creates a fluffy look?
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