Polar Bear Chalk Pastel Picture

Winter has so many great themes that we just love. We are always doing some theme for our activities. This week we are doing a few polar themed activities and I thought it would be fun to do one of our favorites polar bears.

I have a very simple polar bear chalk picture that you can make. It is great for a polar theme. Plus the activity takes very little time to do and can be used with different ages.

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This is a great addition to the polar animals printables on the site.

I love the book by Gail Gibbons. She has so many great themes she has covered. She has a great one on Polar Bears. It is fun to read to learn more about the bears.

We used this book as part of our theme for the week. Plus I wanted to do a fun and quick craft that many ages can do.

What you need to make the Polar Bear Chalk Craft

• black construction paper
• chalk pastels
• white paint
• polar bear cookie cutter
• white cardstock (really any color of cardstock would work)
• clothespins
• cotton balls

How to make the Polar Bear Chalk Picture

You trace the polar bear cookie cutter to make a polar bear stencil on cardstock. You can see the cookie-cutter we used and the stencil we made from it.

You can start this either way. But we started by doing the white for the ice first with the white soft pastel. We colored where we wanted the ice to be. You could also say it was there the snow would be in the picture.

Then we took two colors of the blue and blended the colors. This was fun to see how the two colors would mix together to create a fun new color. And yes using the soft pastels you can make a mess with the chalk.

Next, we made our brushes. We used a cotton ball and clothespin to make the brush. It is a fun way to change up your painting.

Then we placed our polar bear stencil on our background. You can place it where you want it to go. The white of the stencil helps you see where to paint. You could also skip the stencil part and use the cookie cutter for this part as well.

We then used the cotton ball paintbrushes to paint the polar bear onto our picture. You could put as much or as little paint as you wanted.

Here is a look at our final Polar Bear Pastel Chalk Picture

Check out these other Polar Activities:

• Arctic Animals Easy Reader Book
• Model Magic Penguin
• Weekly Reading Charts

Check out all the fun Polar Animal activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com