Snowman Learning Activities for Kids

If you live somewhere that gets snow (and really even if you don’t!) you might want to incorporate some snowman learning activities when it’s cold outside. There are lots of fun snowman themed worksheets and activities so let’s dig into it!

Use snowmen to learn about and talk about your feelings with these snowman feelings chart activities from Living Life and Learning. They also have a nice set of snowman worksheets including a fill-in-the-blank poem, I-spy and more.

Have kids draw a silly snowman and tell a story about it with these roll a snowman printables from The Artisan Life. This one is fun for the whole classroom to do so you can see how they all turn out different.

Get a little math practice in with the snowman spin printable math game from The Kindergarten Connection. Kids make the snowman into a spinner then spin two numbers and add them together to color in the mittens. Or play with shapes while building snowmen with these printable snowman shape puzzles from Preschool Play and Learn.

Snowmen are a great theme for STEM activities as well, of course, so why not turn a marshmallow building challenge into a snowman building challenge? This idea from MomBrite has kids trying to build the tallest snowman. Head to her post for all the details.

Teach Beside Me has a cute idea you can use in a lot of different ways called Save the Snowman. It’s balanced on straws and you can write sight words or math problems on the straws, and each round you have to remove a straw and read the word or answer the problem, trying to keep the snowman standing as long as possible. So fun!

Youaut-aknow has a great collection of winter fine motor skill ideas, several of which involve snowmen. The one shown involves snowman printables and buttons, which you can use for color matching or counting (or both, even!). This one kind of reminds me of a found-object snowman activity I did with my daughter years ago related to the book Snowballs.

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A few years ago I shared some pumpkin themed sensory activities for kids, but I wanted to get a little more general and do some fall sensory ideas that can take you from Halloween al the way to Thanksgiving.

Playdough is a classic sensory activity, especially if kids can help make it, too. These playdough recipes from The Montessori Twin Mama are fall colored and scented with cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and apple pie spice (I honestly don’t know what the difference is!). Or try this fun maple playdough from Happy Toddler Playtime.

Throw together some cookie cutters, googly eyes and other fun things to make an easy fall playdough tray (similar to what I did on this Halloween playdough activity).

How about some fall themed slime? Natural Beach Living gave a basic slime recipe a fall twist with food coloring and glitter. Leaf shaped sequins make it even more fun. Little Bins for Little Hands also has a cinnamon slime, which is great for fall but can also carry you all the way through Christmas.

Raising Wild Things Sensory has some great easy to make fall themed sensory bottles, which you can add fall things to, or pompoms or whatever kind of I spy items you might want to include. They also have a fun apple moon sand sensory bin that has me wondering if you could add something scented to moon sand (I always hated the smell!).

And of course there are all kinds of sensory bins you can make for fall. I like this apple picking one from Happy Toddler Playtime that uses fake leaves and little apple toys. It has the added challenge of trying to pick the apples up through a mesh of branches — kind of like a low-tech game of Operation!

You can also do a short-lived sensory bin with real leaves, or use any kind of beans, brown rice, oats or lentils to make your base. Some more great ideas can be found at Fab Everyday. Their post includes some specific Halloween and Thanksgiving themed sensory bins, too.

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