As winter sets in, capture your pupils’ curiosity by having them craft coffee creamer snowmen. To prepare for this project, save coffee creamer bottles, peeling off the labels and leveling the white plastic base. After you have collected enough for the whole class, allow them to transform these items into snowmen. Provide pupils with glue and construction paper and help them cut out squares to make eyes, orange triangles to serve as noses and long strips to wrap around the container as a scarf. Let your pupils take these creations home with them to display as a seasonal decoration.
Use single-serve coffee creamer containers to craft a brick-inspired structure with your pupils. Ask fellow teachers to save these petite cones by tossing them in a box instead of the trash. After you have collected a large number, help your pupils transform them into a brick home, using each cone as a brick in the structure. Help them build this structure slowly, gluing each layer together, then allowing it to dry before continuing. Finish by spray painting the house, giving it a polished look.
Give your preschoolers license to make some noise by crafting coffee creamer maracas with them. Give each pupil two empty coffee creamer containers along with a cup of beans. Help your pupils pour these beans into the containers, dividing them between the two coffee creamer holders. Tape the tops shut to ensure that they don’t fly off during vigorous play. Conclude the project by having pupils glue on paper or draw on the containers with permanent markers -- watching them carefully as they do -- to make these instruments as pleasing to the eyes as they are fun to play with.
Get your pupils thinking about the excitement of space travel by having them create coffee creamer rockets. To prepare for this project, gather coffee creamer containers and spray paint them gray. Cut out fins from gray card stock and other decorations, such as the letters “USA” from construction paper in other colors. Have pupils glue these additions onto the painted creamer bases, transforming them into rockets.