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Hands-On Snowman Activities for Kindergarten

The holidays might be over, but there is still plenty of winter fun to be had in kindergarten! Using seasonal activities to create a thematic unit can be a great way to keep students engaged in important skill practice. In this post, I’m sharing some of my favorite snowman activities for kindergarten that can be used for a fun unit study!

Snowman Activities for Kindergarten

Snowman Literacy Activities for Kindergarten

Beginning Sounds

Your students will love building their own snowmen with this fun beginning sounds sort!  They will put the correct pictures below the snowman with the matching letter.

Building a snowman with beginning sounds

Another fun way to practice beginning sounds is with this fun hands-on activity! Students will add popsicle stick arms to each snowman by matching the correct letter to each picture. If you’d like this free snowman activity, fill out the form below and it will be delivered straight to your inbox!



CVC Word Practice

Lift-the-flap activities are always a hit in kindergarten, and this snowman activity is no exception!  Students will match CVC words with the picture on each snowman, then attach the word flap to create a fun flip-up activity. After completing this worksheet, students can use it for self-correcting CVC word reading practice!

A snowman lift the flap CVC activity

Word Building

Snowman Melt is a fun hangman-inspired game with a wintery twist!  Students will use the letter board to help them guess the words.  If they guess an incorrect letter, one piece of the snowman will be taken away.  The goal is to build the correct word before the snowman disappears!

A snowman melt word building activity

Snowmen At Night

A snowman unit wouldn’t be complete without reading “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner.  There are many engaging literacy activities that you can do with your students after reading this clever snowman picture book!

First, your students can practice making text-to-self connections by thinking about how they are similar to snowmen and how they differ. 

Snowmen At Night text-to-self connection worksheet

Then students can write about what they would do if they were a snowman at night.  This cute writing activity looks great on a winter bulletin board!

Cover of a snowman at night writing project
The inside view of a snowman writing activity

Next, your students can come up with their own snowman main character to include in a story!  After choosing a name for their snowman, students will use a graphic organizer to map out what the main character will do in their story. 

Snowman at Night story organizer

Finally, your students will write their own snowman at night story, complete with a snowman craftivity for the front cover.

Cover of a snowman at night student story
Main character page of a snowman story
Activity page of a snowman at night student story

Snowmen All Year

After reading about snowmen at night, your students will love reading “Snowmen All Year” by Caralyn Buehner.  This story can inspire even more fun snowman writing projects!

First, your students can complete a short writing activity with a sentence frame.  Students will complete and illustrate a sentence about what they would do if they had a snowman all year.  

A Snowmen All Year sentence frame writing activity

Then your students can use a story organizer to draw pictures of what they would do with their snowman in each season of the year.  

A completed story organizer for Snowmen All Year

After completing the organizer, your students can assemble their writing into this adorable 3D snowman craft!  

The spring side of a 3D snowman writing craftivity
The winter side of a 3D snowman writing craftivity

Text-to-Text Connections

Once your students have had a chance to read two different snowman books, they can practice making text-to-text connections between the stories.  One fun way to compare and contrast these stories is with a snowman-shaped Venn diagram!

Snowman story comparison activity

Snowman Math Activities for Kindergarten

The snowman fun doesn’t have to stay in your ELA block.  There are many different ways that you can incorporate snowmen into your math practice.

Decomposing Numbers

If your students could use more practice with decomposing numbers, you’ll definitely want to try these hands-on activities!  

Your students can add candy buttons to a snowman in various combinations to show the different ways to decompose a given number. Another fun way to do this is with beads on pipe cleaner!  Students can slide some of the beads on the top snowball, leaving the rest on the bottom snowball.  Then they will record these number combinations.

Putting candy buttons on a snowman
Decomposing numbers with beads on a pipe cleaner

Another fun way to practice decomposing numbers is with a shake and spill activity.  Students will start with a given number of marshmallows in a cup and then spill them onto a snowman mat.  They will record how many marshmallows landed on the snowman and how many did not. This is a great way for students to the see the parts of a whole.

A shake and spill snowman math activity

Snowman Addition Activities

Your students can continue to explore parts of a whole as they complete addition activities.  First, students can add buttons to two different snowmen and then model these quantities with an addition sentence.  There are different mats and recording sheets that you can use to best support your students.

Writing an addition sentence on a snowman mat
Solving snowman addition equations
Writing and solving addition equations

Students can also practice addition with a button-themed mini reader!  Students can practice reading color words as they add the correct number of buttons to each snowman.

Drawing and counting snowman buttons in an addition mini reader
Two snowmen on the page of an addition mini reader

Another fun addition activity that your students will love is creating a snowman family!  After drawing their snowman family on a piece of paper, they will use addition to model how many different items they see in their snowman family.

My Snowman Family picture and object counting
My Snowman Family picture and addition page of a mini book

Finally, students can practice solving addition sentences with a hands-on snowman addition worksheet.  Each snowman hat contains a sum that students will match to the snowman with the corresponding equation.

Adding hats to snowmen

Printable Snowman Activities for Kindergarten

If you’d like to plan a fun snowman unit study for your kindergarten class, I have created a bundle that will save you some time! The activities pictured above (and more!) are included in a bundle of snowman literacy and math activities for kindergarten.  This will save you time and money as you plan your own thematic unit.  It even includes a unit-at-a-glance preview that shows you how to put together these activities into one cohesive snowman unit!

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