Snowflake Themed Math Activities

Even if you don’t live somewhere that gets a lot of snow, adding snowflakes to your classroom themes can be a lot of fun. They’re a great way to learn about symmetry, patterns and just to use in math learning.

For example, you can practice math facts up to 10 with these free printables from Math Geek Mama. They include addition and subtraction facts and kids color in all the snowflakes with problems that have the same solution (for example every problem where the answer is 5).

Work on multiplication facts and break the code with this activity from Royal Baloo. The download comes with questions that are answered by decoding multiplication problems where the answers stand for different letters. You could use the same code to write your own secret messages, too.

HoJo’s Teaching Adventures has a snowflake puzzle activity that includes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can get it when you give your email address. You know where to put the puzzle pieces because the math sentence on one piece matches the answer on the other.

Graph out the number of each different kind of snowflake with this snowflake I-spy graphing activity from Schooltime Snippets. Kids can mark each snowflake as they count them with a dot marker, or color them in with different colors of crayons.

Symmetry is an important aspect of snowflakes, and kids can play with shapes of different numbers of sides to make their own symmetrical snowflake patterns. This activity from A Little Pinch of Perfect has printable tanagram shapes kids can use to make a snowflake on a template, then count up the number of each shape they used.

Here’s another project using pattern block shapes to make snowflakes from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.

This one is maybe more art than math, but you can also have kids complete the snowflake with different geometric shapes with this activity from As Told By Mom.

Snowflake Suduko Game

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Learning about Snow

Human brains are pretty amazing, allowing us to think, feel, create, communicate, move and more. But humans aren’t the only animals with cool brains, as Crab Museum explains in the book The No-Brainer Brain Explainer (illustrated by Bruno Valasse).

This book, aimed at kids in grades 1-4, is colorful and silly but also educational about how brains actually work, with billions of neurons sending electrical and chemical signals around the body.

“Everything we think, feel and experience comes from an electrical relay race, with neurons passing chemical batons to each other,” the book says. “The constant chatter of billions of brain cells creates your entire world.”

The book compares the brains of mammals to those of crabs (the book is “written” by a crab after all) and notes that crabs have fewer neurons and of course are much smaller, but they have separate parts of their brains that control their eyes and their legs. Crabs are also capable of remembering things, using tools and solving puzzles.

Some animals’ brains allow them to know more about their world in different ways from humans, such as spiders being sensitive to vibrations in their webs and catfish having an amazing sense of taste, with taste sensors all over their bodies.

It notes that 95 percent of brain activity goes toward things we do unconsciously, like breathing, walking and catching a ball flying toward us. It also talks about dreams, memory, how our emotions try to predict the future, where brains came from and fun facts about brains. For example, did you know a sperm whale is believed to have the biggest brain of any creature that’s even lived? Their brains weigh 18 pounds, compared to just 2.5 pounds for humans.

Information on what creatures have the smallest brains, the toughest brains, the most brains and those who actually eat their own brains will delight kids (and maybe gross them out a little bit). They’ll also enjoy learning about the mycelium network of fungi, which is like a brain without a body, and slime molds, which are like a brain without a brain.

It ends talking about why human brains are so special because we’ve found ways to work together, communicate and build communities on a scale bigger than any other animal.

Kids and adults alike will enjoy this colorful, silly and informational book about brains!

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $19.99.

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