Winter Hat Art Project
Need a winter art project to design a snow hat for your January bulletin board? Imagine your hallway decorated with these winter hats and writing prompts. The step by step drawing guide, snow hat template, PowerPoint lesson, and demonstration video make perfect no prep, art sub plans for elementary art.
That’s right. Sit back while I teach your students how to play the roll a dice game to draw and paint their winter hat myself! Kids can also choose patterns using the ‘you pick’ worksheet or digital spinners—whatever works best for you!
Plus, it’ll help cash-strapped teachers like you plan snow day activities using only markers. Yes, you can watercolor paint with markers!
So get ready to plan winter art activities like this snow hat project easily.
What’s Included
I’ve designed 3 different ways for students to attempt this art project. All will motivate kids to create! Choose which way works best for your classes:
- Roll a dice game to add randomness to your student’s artwork
- “You Pick” art worksheet for kids to choose their own patterns
- Digital spinner wheels, so kids can randomly pick patterns and you can integrate technology
- Printable dice template in case you have no dice
- Step-by-step picture directions to guide students through the art process
- Snow hat template which kids can draw directly on it or transfer it to heavy drawing paper
- Drawing practice worksheet, so kids can practice drawing patterns
- 2 Writing prompts, so you can tie this drawing project to literacy
- 2 Coloring pages that you can use for absent students or hand out as a classroom prize
- Helpful Tips & Tricks handout with teacher directions to help guide the lesson
- Step by Step Video Tutorial, with optional captions
How to Use This Winter Hat Art Project
The best part about this snow hat drawing project is that it’s flexible and can be used in many ways throughout your classroom. It’s great for maternity or emergency art sub plans, early finisher activities, indoor recess, or even an after-school art club.
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable Printable PDF (Winter Hat Art Project)
- 1 Non-Editable PowerPoint
- 1 Demonstration Video
- 5 Digital Spinner Videos (downloadable, and links to them on Google Slides and YouTube)
- Paperless Google Drive Digital Resource
Why You’ll Love It
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Fantastic resource!! My students loved this writing project and accompanying craft. The projects they created were so cute and they were so proud of their work. Thank you!
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Pupils loved this resource and produced bright and colourful winter hats to display in classroom, a very worthwhile purchase that I will use year after year.
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My students loved this art project. Focusing on lines, details, and colours was a huge hit for them! It was also very easy to follow and use as a teacher.
Terms of Use
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Bethany R. –
My students loved using this! It was easy to use and very engaging.
Allison S. –
My students enjoyed this activity for Art as well for a snow day activity. ‘This was good for math in patterning for Grade 1. I would use this again.
Cup to Cup Teaching (Teacher-Author) –
You can’t go wrong with Glitter Meets Glue – high quality and fun resources!
Ashley C. –
My students really enjoyed this, they were very engaged!
Kasie G. –
This was a great lesson to leave for a sub. It was very well organized and engaging for my students.
Carly S. –
Cute craft that I was able to leave with a sub! They turned out so cute!
Stephanie Tetrault –
This is a great resource that my students enjoyed. Thank you!!
Trudi G. –
This was an enjoyable art activity that fit into our exploration of pattern. It’s also a great activity to leave in your plans for a substitute teacher.
kate M. –
A super resource that was easy to prep and can be used over and over again. The young people engage with it well and it ties in to other activities we are doing in class.
Rachel H. –
Such a fun and engaging resource for my first grade classroom! Thanks so much!
Victoria C. –
I used this one day as a substitute teacher. We did it as a take home craft and the kids were super engaged. I paired the snow day question with the hat and just stapled them together.
Melissa PF –
This is a great resource. It is a super simple winter art activity that can generally be completed in one class period. A great art activity for after winter break.
Erica S. –
Kids loved how creative they could make their art project and compare to others!
Holman’s Hangout (Teacher-Author) –
My kids loved creating these for our last day before winter break. We wore them to our schools winter concert and felt very festive!
Trudy Z. –
My students enjoyed creating their own, unique hats.
Talia M. –
This craft and bundle is so cute! My students loved making the craft!
Amoosing Elementary (Teacher-Author) –
These are wonderful! My students love when I pull these out!
Sandra R. –
My students enjoyed completing these activities. Great resource!
Amy M. –
I chose not to use it as a game, but instead had them choose one pattern from each column.
Sarah R. –
I used this as an early finisher activity for my students. They had so much fun with it and the hats turned out so cute!
Samantha Emmons –
My students and I celebrated the first big snow fall this year with a snow party! They loved decorating these hats and continue to ask for more copies to color!
TheMonaLisaWall (Teacher-Author) –
Great handouts and ideas. Really awesome explanation. Planning to buy more to leave as sub plans.
Chris’s Common Core (Teacher-Author) –
Love this!
Andrew Greeley –
Excellent Resource! Thank You!
Nicole W. –
Fantastic resource!! My students loved this writing project and accompanying craft. The projects they created were so cute and they were so proud of their work. Thank you!
Lisa B. –
Students loved this project. We wore them for the winter party.
Schlrae M. –
Perfect activity for students when they return from winter break. I used this when I was absent. Super easy for the sub and the students loved it.
Zoe Baxley –
I loved seeing the creativity of my students. They were very engaged in this activity.
Sherri H. –
So much fun for my students.
Jessi S. –
Was so much fun for a shortened writing block because of a 2 hour snow delay!
Deborah W. –
Sent home with students in a work package during covid. Some chose to do it, some did not.
Jenna H. –
My students loved this art project. Focusing on lines, details, and colours was a huge hit for them! It was also very easy to follow and use as a teacher.
Marisa R. –
This was a great activity to kick off winter break. My students enjoyed it.
Kristine A. –
Fun product for my students to use.
Brooke Shumway –
This was a fun after Christmas project! It really allowed my kids to get creative! A fun product!
Sarah S. –
Love this resource and so did my students!
Jill R. –
Thank you!
Sounds of Reading (Teacher-Author) –
Thank you : )
Stacy L. –
This is a fun resource!!! Great for lots of ideas…
Passionate Prairie Pupils (Teacher-Author) –
The kids liked doing this and they turned out really nice.
Justine Y. –
Students liked having a design template – they could trace or try to copy on their own. Fun concept for students to roll die to design. Option for including dice or not was nice.
Erin S. –
Great January activity!
Jane F. –
Pupils loved this resource and produced bright and colourful winter hats to display in classroom, a very worthwhile purchase that I will use year after year.
Gretchen Ehrhart –
Kids loved this!
Leigh E S. –
Students love this creative activity. We put them together with the Mitten activity and made a bulletin board.
Kendra H. –
This resource was awesome! The students love it and were very engaged. Thank you!
Abby H. –
Awesome resource! Thank you!
Rebecca B. –
Perfect for distance learning right before the break!
Sylvia T. –
My students really enjoyed this activity during online learning. It was easy to use and understand and the finished products turned out beautiful. It was a great resource to offer some variety while teaching art online to students with limited art supplies at home!
Lillie Simourian –
loved it!!
Elizabeth B. –
Great. Thanks.
Courtney W. –
Great resource! My students loved it!
Kelly T. –
Easy to assigned art activity during distance learning. Requires low prep and whatever materials on hand. Students can either follow instructions or be independent artists and make own creations.
Danielle Hoffmann –
Thank you! My students enjoyed this activity.
MsABArt (Teacher-Author) –
Fantastic resource! I used the spinners within Google Slides for interactive art creating with my students.
Jamie Ralph –
I have used this with both gr 1 and 2 and they love it!
Laura W. –
My students loved the creativity and ‘mystery” of this resource by using the spinner. They were excited to see where the spinner would land for the next design. Lots of fun and engagement.
Jacqueline B. –
This went great with tour pattern unit. It was a fun little morning work project.
Jamie K. –
Easy to use and print. Kids enjoyed the design patterns and creating their hats. Good resource.
Danielle V. –
I used this activity as introduction to our patterning unit. It was great and the kids loved seeing their unique hats.
Lindsey Pade –
My students loved this craft when we returned to school after winter break. Thank you!!
Caitlin G. –
My grade 2s loved it!
Waldron’s Warriors (Teacher-Author) –
My students loved this!
mahalia.rochelle (verified owner) –
So cute! I can see this being combined with a portrait lesson or a snowman lesson
Ashley Phillips –
This was a super fun winter carnival week activity. I found it a bit difficult for the kindergarten students, but the older students loved it so much!
VANESSA G. –
Great activity!
Lisa T. –
Simple, fun, cute winter activity!
Nicola S. –
Very thorough! Fun project!