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Art & Crafts Fine Motor Preschool

Snowball and Craft Stick Sculptures

Creating Snowball and Craft Stick Sculptures is a simple activity that kids will have hours of fun with on a snowy day! Playing with styrofoam snowballs and skinny craft sticks is a creative way for kids to work on fine motor skills! Read on for a supplies list and info on how to set up this play invitation!

Creating Snowball and Craft Stick Sculptures is a simple activity that kids will have hours of fun with on a snowy day!

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Snowball and Craft Stick Process Art Sculptures

Supplies Needed:

  • Styrofoam balls in variety of sizes
  • Colorful Skinny Craft Sticks (gifted from CraftProjectIdeas.com)

Snowball and Craft Stick Scupltures

How to Set up Invitation to Create:

To set up this invitation to create for your kids or students is very easy! Set out a basket of styrofoam balls and a container of skinny craft sticks on your work surface and invite the children to build sculptures using only those two supplies by poking the craft sticks into the styrofoam balls.

Building snowball sculptures with craft sticks

This activity really appealed to my son’s building interests and he loved the creative freedom this project afforded. We both sat down and created different objects such as snow blasters and imaginative snow monster figures using the styrofoam snowballs and skinny craft sticks! We really had a ball! (Pun intended! haha!)

Building sculptures with snowballs and skinny craft sticks

All the while he was inadvertently working on hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and strengthening needed for handwriting! I call that a win-win!

Literature Extension:

Complete this activity with some of these fun books about snowballs!

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HAPPY FINE MOTOR FRIDAY!

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It’s good for toddlers and preschoolers to do a variety of fine motor activities. Having different activities help work different fine motor muscles and hand coordination which is necessary for handwriting. Fine Motor Fridays is all about giving you a bunch of ideas to do with your little ones!

Check out these great fine motor ideas!

Heart Flower Cards from Powerful Mothering

Valentine’s Hearts Fine Motor Activity from And Next Comes L

Follow Laura @ Lalymom Kids Crafts & Activities’s board Fine Motor Fridays on Pinterest.

99 fine motor ideas for ages 1 to 5


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  1. 21 Fine Motor Skills Winter Crafts and Activities for Kids - says:
    January 14, 2019 at 3:04 am

    […] Use cotton clods as snowballs in this snowball sensory bin read on Pocket of Preschool. Organize snowball effigies squandering styrofoam balls and craftsmanship adheres as participated on Stir the Wonder. Practice […]

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  2. Popsicle Stick Crafts: 35 Fun Things for Kids to Make & Do - How Wee Learn says:
    May 17, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    […] Snowball and Craft Stick Sculptures by Stir the Wonder. With some skinny craft sticks and styrofoam balls kids can build sculptures, towers or anything else they can imagine! It’s a creative STEAM activity that builds fine motor and critical thinking skills. […]

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