While cleaning out the kitchen cupboard, I discovered two kind of old bags of marshmallows and thought they'd be perfect for crafts! I've seen several different ways to use marshmallows for snowmen crafts, so we set off to experiment.
First we tried making marshmallow snowman sculptures. They mushed together pretty well and had potential, especially if we would've used a little glue too. However, after some fun times squishing, the girls were ready to try something else with the marshmallows. (Little sis loved the smushing/squeezng part...she kept saying "mush mush mush".)
Next, we got out some blue paper and glue so we could glue them in a design n the paper. Big sis started out trying to do it on her own and had something that looked like it might be a "snow storm".
Little sis never even got to the gluing of marshmallows (although much to my dismay, she kept slipping some in her mouth when I wasn't looking...wonder if old marshmallows are harmful?? She gave up just before I was about to remove her from the project, so they must not have tasted that great!). Instead, she just kept transferring the glue from one container to the next and "painting" with the glue.
Big sis saw me starting my snowman and instantly wanted to start over. I drew the snowman outline on her paper, then she used a paint brush and mod podge to trace over my outline and stick down her marshmallows.
After finishing the snowman, we added details. We made the ground with a line of marshmallows, arms with little twigs from an indoor houseplant, and then big sis drew in several other details (buttons, eyes/nose/mouth, a hat (we talked about waiting until little sis was napping and then making our hats out of glitter, but evidently she couldn't wait), a flag (not sure why she decided he needed a flag and I'm not entirely sure it is still a flag...it looks like the start to one of her reindeer!)
She had a blast doing this project!
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