Snowmen at Night
Children of all ages love the Snowmen at Night series, by Caralyn Buehner, for their beautiful illustrations and amusing twists. We read all of them in First and Second Grade, looking for the mouse on every page and all the hidden images. We also noted how the illustrator, Mark Buehner, makes the snowmen look three-dimensional by adding blue shadows to one side of the snowmen. We tried the same with chalk pastels for our snowmen. Then we created beautiful backgrounds with liquid watercolors and salt. Finally, we added houses and trees with construction paper and swirly snow with glitter.