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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When my daughter was younger she had a ton of LEGO bricks, and I’m honestly a little sad we got rid of most of them because there are so many fun things to do with LEGOs outside of the kits you bought them in.

I love seeing all the ideas people have for LEGO building challenges, and I have shared some ideas for LEGO games before, but I saw one on Pinterest the other day that I felt was worth a mention.

This one is for those ’80s and ’90s kids who spent sick days home from school watching “The Price is Right”: LEGO Plinko!

For those who don’t know about Plinko, the original was a giant peg board set up at an angle and the contestant would drop a flat disc at the top of the board. As it moved down the board it would hit the pegs and change the way it moved, and there would be different prizes in the slots at the bottom where the piece would land.

This version from Play Party Game works on the same principle, using LEGO bricks to make the game board and marbles in place of the Plinko disc since your game board isn’t flat.

You can really use whatever bricks you have for this build, and while it shows all the pegs the same size and evenly spaced, you can play with different configurations and see what happens. It’s engineering and a game!

And while you’re playing with your LEGOs, make sure to check out this post from Kids Craft Room that includes minute to win it style games you can do with LEGO. From speed sorting to tower building as fast as you can, these ideas are sure to get you thinking about different ways to play with LEGO.

And if you need even more ideas, check out my post with LEGO building challenges you can print out for kids (and adults!) to try.

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