Playful Polar Bear Toss

crayola supplies

Erasable Colored Pencils
Markers
Model Magic®
No-Run School Glue
Blunt-Tip Scissors
Construction Paper

household supplies

recycled tissue box
facial tissues

Why

Toss a snowball between the polar bears and the ice floes! Create your own game with recycled tissue box, tissues, and a bit of Crayola® Model Magic®.

Steps

1. Polar bears are magnificent animals. They live in the frozen tundra and waters near the North Pole. Polar bears are proud and resourceful creatures, just right for the theme of a playful aiming game.
2. On white paper, use Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils to draw several polar bears at play. Perhaps one could walk on all fours. Another could sit. Maybe one is rolling in the snow.
3. Tear out your polar bears for a furry edge, or cut them out with Crayola Scissors. Draw their eyes, noses, and mouths with Crayola Washable Markers.
4. Create ice with Crayola Model Magic. To color the ice, mix color from a Crayola Washable Marker into white model magic. Knead to blend colors. Place modeling material around the opening of an empty recycled tissue box to resemble a hole in the ice.
5. Glue mounds of tissues on your box with Crayola School Glue to create ice floes. Glue polar bears to the ice floes. Dry.
6. Create objects to toss into the hole in the ice---tissue snowballs or fish, for example. Make up your game rules and you're ready to play!

When & Where

"What an original idea! Kids became completely intrigued with polar bears."
- Tanu G., after-school program director.

"When I babysit, I always take a book along with me. Kids keep coming up with variations for this game."
- Mira M., teenage babysitter.

Interesting Info

Polar bears are being threatened by the effects of global warming. The warming of the Earth has caused changes in the climate at the North Pole.

Safety Guidelines

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.