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You will need scissors, blue construction paper, a round object to trace a circle, a pencil, Q-tips, and liquid glue. If you would like to add glitter you could do that as well.

Trace circles on your blue construction paper and cut them out. Then using the Q-tips, arrange them on your circles in a snowflake design. You can cut the Q-tips if you want smaller pieces. Glue them down. You may also make your snowflakes sparkle with some glitter. Let your snowflakes dry.

You will need three wood beads, twine, yarn, and markers or paint for the snowman’s face and details.  If using paint, you can also paint the beads white if you wish.

You will need to cut twine long enough to fold in half and have room for a loop, the three beads, and to tie a knot at the end. Fold the twine in half and tape the ends together. This is to make it easier to thread the beads. Thread each bead through, and push to the top. Be sure to leave a bit of loop to hang your ornament. When they are all snug on the loop, tie a knot on the end after the very last bead. Cut any excess twine. Then take your yarn and tie a scarf on between the top and middle bead. You can wrap the yarn around the twine a few times and then secure with a knot.

Lastly, draw the face on your snowman and draw any buttons you want on the body. Hang your ornament!

For this craft you will need a paper cup, construction paper, yarn, a wooden bead, liquid glue, and a scissors.

First, cut out the cone template along the black lines. Fold where it says to fold and glue along that tab to make your cone. Then also cut a small pair of mittens. Glue the mittens on either side of the cup for the hands. The hat will be glued to the top of the cup. The wooden bead is for your gnome’s nose. Glue that under the brim of the hat. You may have to hold it onto the up for a few minutes to dry.  Then you will take pieces of yarn and glue them on the front of the gnome to make a beard.

Cone Template:

Adult Winter Reading Challenge

Take a Road Trip Across the United States!!!

• Start Anywhere
• Read one book from each state on your chosen route
• Each state must connect on your “trip”
• Track your progress on your map (color in states or draw a line) or track online at Beanstack (https://bowmanlibrary.beanstack.com/reader365)
• 6 books read completes the winter challenge! 

If you want to keep reading, go for all 50 states!

The attached document has a list of library books from every state. There are two fiction and one nonfiction choice for each state.

For this craft, you will need a small clay pot, a wooden bead, and an assortment of pipe cleaners, with at least 3 being green. You will also need liquid glue and scissors.

To make your tree, take one green pipe cleaner and fold it in half. Twist it together. Stick the two ends into your bead so they come out the other side of the hole. Bend the ends to secure. Create the tree branches by cutting up smaller pieces of green pipe cleaner and twisting them onto the main one. Adjust as you go so they look the way you want. Once you are happy with that, use the rest of the pipe cleaners to create the “ornaments”. Just cut them up into small pieces and bend them onto the branches. You could even fold a star with the yellow one and hook it onto the top with another small piece of yellow pipe cleaner. Then glue your bead into the pot and let dry. Feel free to paint your pot and bead if you’d like to further decorate!

These snails are just made out of 3 pipe cleaners and two googly-eyes. The only other thing you will need is glue if your googly eyes aren’t the sticker kind, and a pencil or something similar for wrapping.

Take two pipe cleaners of the same color and twist them together starting about ¼ of the way down and twisting to the end. The end that is not twisted and has two ends, is the antennae. Take each antennae and curl them down, then stick or glue a googly-eye on each. Take a third pipe cleaner and coil it around a pencil. Pull the coil off, and thread the tail end of the twisted pipe cleaners through. Pull/push the coil all the way to the end where your antennae begin. Once that is in place, roll up the tail end of the twisted pipe cleaners to make the shell shape.

What you will Need:

1 wood slice with a hole for string

1 string

2 googly eyes

1 piece of orange felt

1 piece of red felt

An assortment of feathers

Liquid or hot glue, scissors

Directions:

First, tie your string through the hole to make your turkey into an ornament. Then glue the feathers on the back and cut out a beak and wattle. Glue the eyes, beak, and wattle on the front. Enjoy your turkey!!

For this craft you will need glue and scissors.

Take everything out of your paper bag and close it. Hold it closed so that the open end is towards you. Then cut straight lines into the bag, almost all the way to the bottom, leaving some space. Make the cuts all the way to the end. Next, open the bag and twist the base of the bag to create the trunk. Flatten the bottom down to create a solid base for it to stand. Take a few cut pieces and twist them together to create a branch. Do this with the rest. Then glue on your paper leaves.  

All you will need for this craft is a pompom, googly eyes, a pipe cleaner, and liquid or hot glue. If using liquid, be sure to let your puppets totally dry before using.

Take your pipe cleaner and twist it around your finger to create a spiral. Leave enough at the top to create ears. Bend the pipe cleaner to create the ears and then glue your pompom on for the head. Just add eyes, and let dry.

You will need an acorn top, a wooden bead, a small pinecone, hot glue, and some string or yarn. Glue the bead to the acorn top to make the hat. The bead will be the head. Then glue the body, or pinecone, onto the bead. Once dry, it is ready to decorate! You can wrap the string to make a scarf, take a marker and draw on a face, or decorate in any way you would like! Print out the template below to decorate and put together a house for your person. Or make one out of an old box, toilet paper roll, etc. Let your creativity run wild!