Snow Globe Learning Activities

December 24, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Last year I did a post all about snow globe crafts, but this year let’s try to make it a little more educational with some learning activities with a snow globe theme.

This snow globe letter find from Kindergarten Worksheets and Games is a fun one for kiddos learning letter recognition. Each letter has its own sheet and there are upper case and lower case letters to find in the flurry of the snow globe that can be circled or covered with do a dot marker.

Speaking of dot markers, they’ll also come in handy for this roll and cover dice game using a snow globe printable from The Kindergarten Connection. This is a great way to practice number recognition and understanding that the dots on the die and the numeral mean the same thing.

Use a marker or cotton balls to find and cover letters of the alphabet in this activity from Fun Learning for Kids. You could also use buttons or tiny erasers. The printable set here includes the snow globe with letters inside and a set of cards with images on them. Kids cover the letter of the beginning sound of the image on the card.

If you have a white shipping box handy you can make a snow globe counting and fine motor activity as shown in this video from Happy Tot Shelf. Draw a snow globe and poke holes in it, then kids can stick cotton swabs in the holes. They can use a die and count out a certain number, or you can give them a few and have them count how many there are as they place them.

Or do some winter counting with these printables from Preschool Play and Learn. The snow globe has room for snowflakes, and the printable cards tell kids how many to place. Again you can use buttons, beads, cotton balls or anything you have handy to decorate your snow globe.

This one is a bit of a craft because it includes making a snow globe for the child’s picture to be stuck in but you can also just use the writing prompt “what would you do if you were trapped in a snow globe?” Get all the details and the craft instructions from Teach Create Motivate.

Check out the kids craft section on Craftbits.com

DIY Snow Globe From A Mason Jar [Glass Art]

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Easy and Cute Snowglobe Craft

DIY Snow Globes {Kid Craft} [Lesson Plans]

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Learning Activities with Snap Cubes

A classic manipulative in the preschool and early elementary classroom is the snap cube, also known as math cubes, unifix cubes or unit cubes. These little one inch cubes often come in a set of 100 in 10 different colors, and they snap together so they’re easy to use for all sorts of math learning, measuring and more.

No Time for Flashcards has a cute robot printable to use with cubes to measure the height of each robot. That one is free but they also have other printable cube mats that are a paid resource.

Catherine & Co uses math cubes to teach kids about measuring volume. They make a letter from cubes and then measure the volume (there’s a printable worksheet in the post).

Pattern recognition is another fun and easy activity you can do with the cubes. You can use printables like these from Planning Playtime, or just make a pattern from cubes and have kids repeat it or figure out what comes next. There’s another good set of pattern printables at English Created Resources.

Because there are 10 sets of 10 cubes in a pack, these are great for teaching one to one correspondence, counting, sorting and basic addition and subtraction. English Created Resources has great printable number mats you can use to form the number from cubes and count out the number of cubes that corresponds to that number.

ParenTutor has a great collection of snap cube activity ideas, most of which are just pictures, but it’s work taking a look through the post for ideas for using them at home or in the classroom.

To give just a few of their examples, you can match linked blocks to the corresponding number of pieces, use blocks to find different ways to add up to 10, compare numbers and determine which one is more or less, skip counting and weighing different numbers of blocks.

You can also use unit cubes to learn letters, like with these super cute alphabet mats from Fun Learning for Kids. Kids can trace the letter, make it out of cubes and practice writing a word that starts with that letter.

Of course you can also use them to build things, since they are blocks, and there are tons of pattern mats on Teachers Pay Teachers. I also love these dinosaur themed mats from Lets Go to Learn on Etsy.

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