I got this idea from another teacher blog http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/2010/12/mitten.html
My students really got in to this project, it was fun. We read the story "The Mitten" By Jan Brett and then we made our little mitten and hid something inside! The kids looked and looked though magazines to find the perfect animal. It was funny to see how important it was to them to find the perfect picture to hide in their mitten.