🔮A snow-globe craft with writing about life inside the globe, for PreK through 6th grade. Three globe sets — Winter, Christmas and Three Kings Day — in three cutting levels, with three writing levels, coloring pages and word searches, in color and black and white.
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This snow-globe craft lets children build a world inside a globe and then write about life in it. The globe comes in three sets — Winter, Christmas and Three Kings Day, or Día de Reyes — and the craft pages come in three cutting levels, so a PreK child and a 6th grader can build the same globe at the difficulty that fits their hands. The globe is six and a half inches across, and the craft also includes a photo globe, a paper-plate version and a back page for hanging.
The writing is built into the craft. Thirteen writing and coloring pages carry three writing levels — K–1, 2–3 and 4–6 — with two writing prompts and brainstorming, two coloring pages and two word searches. A child writes about what it would be like to live inside the globe, and the writing levels mean the same prompt fits a kindergartner drawing and dictating and a 6th grader writing paragraphs.
The craft pages give real choice. No-cut scenes work for the youngest hands, easy-cut pieces in boxes at about one and two-thirds inches work for children still learning scissors, and detailed pieces at about one and a quarter to one and a half inches work for older children who can cut carefully. Four answer-key pages cover the word searches, and the pages come in color and black-and-white versions, so the craft works whether the classroom printer is color or not.
The finished globes hang on a wall or a board, and the writing goes with them. The set works as a winter craft activity, as writing about a snow-globe world, as a bulletin-board or hanging display, in centers, for early finishers, in mixed-age classes and as a substitute plan.
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A craft that ends in writing works twice: children build something they care about, and then they have something to write about. Three cutting levels and three writing levels mean the same globe fits the whole school, and the finished globes on the wall show the writing that went with them.
It is written for PreK through 6th grade. The craft comes in three cutting levels and the writing in three levels (K–1, 2–3, 4–6), so the same globe fits a whole mixed-age class.
The set has 45 pages: 22 craft pages in 3 sets (Winter, Christmas and Three Kings Day / Día de Reyes), 13 writing and coloring pages and 4 answer-key pages, plus teacher and student pages. The craft also includes a photo globe, a paper-plate version and a back page for hanging.
The globe is 6 1/2 inches across. The craft pieces come in three sizes: no-cut scenes, easy-cut pieces in boxes (about 1 2/3 inches) and detailed pieces (about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches).
Yes. Four answer-key pages are included, and the pages come in color and black-and-white versions.
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