Name Snowman

Name Snowman is a fun way for kids to learn their names. This activity combines arts and crafts, letters, kids names, and snowman – a perfect winter activity for preschoolers to try.

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What you need

• White & Black construction paper
• Marker
• Scissors
• Glue

How to

• Make Snowballs – Cut out circles from the white construction paper – one for the face and one circle per letter in your kids name.
• For the face – Draw eyes, nose and mouth using markers. One things we missed was hat – you could cut hat shapes and decorate it with rhinestones, glitters, pompoms and so on.
• Write the letters on the snowballs and glue them to make your name snowman.

Miss A(4) knows to spell & write her name now. She wrote the letters in her name on the snowballs and glued the snowman together on a black paper. She dint need any help with writing or ordering the letters.

Miss D(3) wrote the letters in her name with some help, i had to tell her what letters to write and which order to glue them. For even smaller kids you could write it for them and ask them to glue it.Once done we used painters tape to put it up on their playroom wall. They were so proud of their work. 😀

While doing this activity they learnt the order of letters in their name and also spoke about – how many letters they have in their name, whose name is longer, how many As does your name have and so on.

Paint the Snow – Indoor Activity

Painting the snow is a fun family activity to enjoy the snow indoors when its too cold to go outside. We had so much fun with our snow sensory bin we had to play with it one more time before the end of season. 😀

What you need

• Water
• Food color
• Snow
• Storage bin
• Cups & paintbrush

How to

• Mix few drops of food color to a cup of water to make snow paint.
• Bring the snow indoors in a storage bin. 
• Pull out your paintbrush and paint your heart out.

We did this activity few weeks back when it was snowing heavily. My girls love to play in the snow, but it was too cold to get outside. So we decided to bring the snow inside. It was so much fun painting the snow. Miss A(3 yrs) & Miss D(2yrs) used paint brushes to color the snow. I should tell you, it looks real pretty when the white snow is mixed in color.

D liked to use cookie cutters to shape up the snow and color it. A enjoyed scooping it up to make snow cones and ice creams and color it. She also enjoyed cutting snow cakes. We also tried making a snow tower. After a while they dumped the snow paint on to the snow and mixed it all up. We made more snow paint and played until it turned all slushy & then dumped it outside. One colorful fun evening! 😀

Valentine Sweet Shoppe – Snow Sensory Bin

Snow sensory bin is best way to play with snow and stay warm when its freezing cold outside and your stuck home all day. 

I filled a plastic storage bin with some snow, added some Acrylic Hearts, Heart cookie cutters, Sweet shoppe tools(from another play set), muffin pan, cups & spoons to it. Viola! The snow bin was all set to play with. 

This is our first snow sensory bin and Miss A(3yrs) & Miss D(2yrs) loved it alot. They made  icecreams, cones, muffins, hearts, cupcakes… ahh so much fun. I used a quilt and a dollar store sheet on top of it to catch any mess. They loved scooping & filling the bowls with snow and then dumping it back.

The longer they played with the snow – we were able to observe the different characteristics of snow. First it got a little soft, then wet and eventually slushy. Either ways my LOs never lost interest.

A & D liked to touch and feel the snow and D sneaked a little to lick some 😜 They played with it all evening until dinner time. Once done, we dumped it outside.

Learn Colors with Frosty – Snowman Activity Tray

This Frosty the Snowman activity tray is very simple and open ended and is perfect for busy bags. It takes less than 10 mins to set up and is so much fun for the kids while working on fine motor & color recognition skills. We paired this activity with our favourite book Frosty the Snowman.

What you need

• Felt pieces
• Pipecleaners
• Pompoms
• Marker
• Scissors

How to

• Cut snowman out of white felt. We got the precut ones in our christmas felt decoration pack. It had white, red & green snowman.
• Draw eyes, nose & mouth on it using permanent marker.
• Cut out matching hats & scarfs from different color felt pieces.
• From matching pipecleaners, cut 2 small pieces and bend the edges a little –  to make hands for the snowman.
• Now add matching color pompoms to these cut felt pieces in an activity tray and let your LOs dress up the snowman ⛄️ as they wish.
• To make it a color matching activity – Let them color match the hat, scarf, pipecleaner hands and pompom buttons on the snowman.

One cold morning, we read the book frosty the snowman. After we were done with it, I asked my LOs if they wanted to dress up frosty and they got all excited. Miss A(3yrs) liked to dress up the white snowman randomly. Miss D(2yrs) picked red and green snowman and matched him with same color hats & pompom button. She dint like the idea of dressing up the red and green snowman any other way. 😜 When asked to color coordinate the snowman’s accessories, they both worked on the white snowman and dressed him up with matching hat, scarf, pompom button and pipecleaner hands. Miss A knows all her colors now – she did it like a pro and took over to random dressing up. She had so much fun making lovely combinations, twisting the pipecleaner hands for different poses, using the scarf as nose and mouth, arranging pompoms randomly on the snowman. Miss D is still on learning the names of colors. She did a perfect job matching the colors and learning their names and took off with the green and red snowman. The girls played with this activity tray on and off all morning😀

❄️ Craftstick Snowflakes ❄️

Craftstick Snowflakes are cute and simple winter craft for toddlers & preschoolers. It needs no preparation and is perfect when your stuck indoors on a cold gloomy winter day.😀 

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What you need

• Craftsticks (jumbo, regular or mini) 
• Paint
• Glitter
• Rhinestones (you could also use pompoms, buttons, glitter glue, pony beads)
• Glue

How to

• Hot glue sets of 4 craftsticks to make snowflakes. If using regular glue, make sure to let it dry.
• Now give some paint to your LOs to add color to the snowflakes.
• We painted the jumbo snowflakes, used rhinestones for the regular snowflakes and glitter for the mini snowflakes. 
• You could mix and match any way you want and decorate with any embellishments your heart desires.

Miss A(3yrs) & Miss D(2yrs) got all excited when i told them we are going to paint snowflakes. They had so much fun painting and decorating them. Me & Dad joined them for some fun too. After we were done, we let them dry overnight and stuck it to our door using velcro dots. You can also glue a string to it & hang them in style.. 👍

Frosty Winter Wall – Sticky Mural

The Sticky Mural activity we did a while back was a big hit with my LOs. Ever since, they love contact paper activities. We used to have murals up once in few weeks and play with any sticky materials, sometimes just paper – tear/cut & stick. Frosty Winter Wall is one such simple fine motor activity for kids that boosts their creativity while exploring different textures & shapes.👍

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What you need

• Contact paper
• Painters tape
• Cotton balls
• White pompoms
• Q tips
• Cotton pads
• White felt snowman
• White felt snowflake
• White felt tree

How to

• Stick the contact paper on the wall or a window, sticky side out. We taped a large area on the wall, well enough for them to share & play.
• Give your LOs the loose parts to explore.
• The snowman, snowflake & tree is not necessary, but my LOs wanted it to create a winter scene around. They were not into the pompoms. You can choose to add other loose parts according to your kids needs/ interests.

Miss A(3yrs) & Miss D(2yrs) had a lot of fun with this activity. Miss D was all about the q tips and cotton balls. We made some snowflakes with them and then she randomly placed them all over. She was busy playing with the felt snowman and snowballs(cotton balls). Miss A said the q tips were christmas lights (thats right, they still talk about christmas 😳)  and decorated it around the felt tree. Then she added more hanging lights to the scene saying it looked just like our neighbours christmas lights (they had the dripping ice lights on 😀). We also made a snowman with the cotton pads and gave him q tip hands. The cotton balls when stamped on the contact paper leaves a fluffy residue. Miss A said it looked like snow. Then the girls stamped the whole area with cotton balls until nothing could stick on the contact paper anymore. 😂 It gave a perfect frosted look to our wall. I loved to watch them play & enjoyed listening to their stories. We did this activity on a freezing snow day- we couldnt get outside and it kept them busy all morning😀

Counting With Snowballs- Preschool Winter Math Activity

Counting with Snowballs is a simple roll & count math activity perfect for winter theme. Its develops hand-eye coordination, allows practice with counting and 1:1 correspondence.

What you need

• Blue Felt mat
• White Felt Snowflake (optional)
• White Felt Tree (optional)
• White Felt Snowman (optional)
• White Pompoms or Cotton Balls
• Dice

How to

• The object of the game is to roll the dice, count the dots on the dice/recognize the number displayed (depending on what dice you use) and place the correct number of snowballs (pompoms) on the felt mat.
• We used a large dice which had dots on it. Counting the dots was a good exercise to practice 1:1 correspondence. If using a small dice, counting the dots might be difficult for kids. You could use dice with numbers instead – develops number recognition.
• The felt snowman, snowflake & tree was just to add more interest to this roll & count game. You could just use blue construction paper instead. Also try using tweezer to pick and place the snowballs for a simple fine motor twist.

Miss A(3yrs) enjoyed this activity alot. At our home we do some “point and count” on regular basis, but she always rushes through and skips counting when it comes to big numbers. So we used a dice with 1-6. Depending on your childs needs you can use dice with larger numbers or use 2 dice to even try adding numbers. 👍 With the dice, we used “point and count” & when placing the snowballs(pompoms), we used “drop and count”. She loved to create a scene everytime – decorating the tree with snowballs or decorating the snowman with snowballs and so on. Each time she had a story. 😀 Counting has never been so enticing for her before. May be its rolling the dice or the story part. We were playing this for solid 30 mins. Miss D(2yrs) is not ready to count yet, but she enjoyed rolling the dice (because she has to do whatever A does 😜) & placing snowballs on the mat to create a story. It was more like story board for her 😀

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