Montessori-Inspired Snowman Activities Using Free Printables

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now 

I love snowmen ... especially when I'm nice and warm! Now that I live in San Diego, I'm having lots of fun introducing snowman activities to my 2-year-old granddaughter. 

The activities in my post today are mainly for preschoolers through first graders, though, although some will also work for 2 year olds. 

You'll find lots of free snowman printables in my post today at Living Montessori Now. 

Here, I'm sharing some Montessori-inspired snowman activities using free printables for preschoolers through first graders. You'll find many activities for preschoolers through first graders throughout the year along with presentation ideas in my previous posts at PreK + K Sharing. You'll also find ideas for using free printables to create activity trays here: How to Use Printables to Create Montessori-Inspired Activities. 

At Living Montessori Now, I have a post with resource links of Free Printables for Montessori Homeschools and Preschools.

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Snowman Cutting Strip Practice 



Free Printable: Snowman Cutting Strip Practice from Preschool Snowman Pack by Royal Baloo 

This was a super-easy activity to prepare. I just printed out the printable on cardstock (which is easier for young children to cut than paper). For interest, I added a gift box for the cut pieces of paper. 

Snowman Button Counting and Practical Life Activity



Free Printable: Snowman Button Counting Mats by Perfectly Preschool at Teachers Notebook 

I used a Multicraft tray, craft gems for buttons, and a toast tong for an added practical life activity. I only used 1-5 (with the exact number of "buttons") for this activity, although there are snowman mats for 1-10 if you use small enough "buttons." 

Number Snowman Hide & Seek

Free Printable: Numbers 1-10 Snowman Hide & Seek by Maureen Prezioso at Teachers Pay Teachers 

This is a cute way to help children understand the different ways to represent each number. 

I used a Montessori Services rug for the layout. You could simply have the child search for all the snowmen that represent the same number.


Snowman Beginning Sound Sort



Free Printable: Snowmen Beginning Sound Sort from Snowman Literacy Centers by Lorie Duggins at Teachers Pay Teachers 

Snow scenes and snowmen are available for s, t, p, and r. There are 4 snowmen for each letter sound, although you could use 2, 3, or 4 sets. 

The child simply sorts the snowmen and adds them to the correct snow scene. You can find resources on how to introduce Montessori phonics in my DIY beginning Montessori phonics post. 

Build a Snowman CVC Words 


Free Printable: Build a Snowman CVC Words from Let It Snow! Winter Mini Unit by Chevron and Centers at Teachers Pay Teachers 

This is a fun extension to the Montessori movable alphabet. The letters aren't one color for vowels and another for consonants, although most children who can spell the words won't have a problem with that.



Compound Word Snowmen



Free Printable: Compound Words Snowman by Anna Navarre at Teachers Pay Teachers 

This activity is for advanced preschoolers through 1st graders ... a creative way to reinforce the idea of compound words.

 

More Free Snowman Printables  

Go to my post at Living Montessori Now for links to free snowman printables from around the blogosphere: Free Snowman Printables and Montessori-Inspired Snowman Activities. 

More Montessori-Inspired Snowman Activities 

You'll find more Montessori-inspired snowman activities in my "Montessori-Inspired Winter Activities."

If you'd like to focus on manners with children, please check out my eBook Montessori at Home or School: How to Teach Grace and Courtesy! It's written for anyone who'd like to feel comfortable teaching manners to children ages 2-12. I'm also one of the coauthors of the book Learn with Play – 150+ Activities for Year-round Fun & Learning!

Happy winter!

 

Deb Chitwood is a certified Montessori teacher with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. Deb taught in Montessori schools in Iowa and Arizona before becoming owner/director/teacher of her own Montessori school in South Dakota. Later, she homeschooled her two children through high school. Deb is now a Montessori writer who lives in San Diego with her husband of 40 years (and lives in the city where her kids, kids-in-law, and toddler granddaughter live). She blogs at Living Montessori Now.

Snowmen- and LOTS of FREEBIES!

Hi! It's Carolyn from Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together. It's that cold, snowy time of year again in Upstate NY where I live.  Time to talk about some snowmen!  Last year I put together lots of snowman freebies- because we have many cold days that require lots of activities to keep children busy and learning.  I found some new ones, too, and wanted to pass them all on to you.

I made these bulletin boards for the end of our hallway.  You just have to love Olaf!

Kooky Kinders shared an Olaf writing activity free at her TPTstore.

I like this My Day With Olaf writing paper from Ally C. Joy.  The kids would have fun deciding what they would do with Olaf for a day!

Michelle, from The Purple Pumpkin Blog shared a fun Olaf printable.  The children can cut out and make their own Olaf!

Catching Up With Kate shared these free Disney printables.

               

Here are  some of my favorite Snowman books. 

I have so many winter/snow/snowman books. I think it is because we are inside so much in the winter- and I got many of these books when my children were little.  We did lots of reading inside, with lots of jammie days.  So- now I have a wonderful winter book collection!

 Any in this series of Snowmen books are good!

 This book is great to talk about working together to get something done.

 This book is fun to use to compare the snow people to the real children. 

 This book is sweet, and great for a discussion about sticking up for each other.

The illustrations  in this book are different and fun to talk about. 

The Weekly Sprinkle has a fun Hot and Cold Sorting Activity to go along with Sneezy the Snowman.

 This book is fun for the 100th Day of School.  The kids like the pictures- lots of details.

 

Sweet, sweet, sweet.

 

 I LOVE this book! The illustrations are just gorgeous.

These songs are sweet.
The first one is from Heidi Songs.  If you haven't subscribed to her Youtube channel- go do it!  She has the best teaching songs!  I use her wonderful videos all the time. Thank you, Heidi!
            

                                  

Here are some fun online games to play on the Smart board or  the computer.

This one is Build a Snowman from AGame.com

The children can design a snowman with this game from A Kids Heart.

I always love Starfall. They have a cute Snowman Game, too.

I found some adorable snowman crafts to make. Are you ready?

Look at this adorable Snowman Mason Jar Luminary from Club Chica Circle.  I love how she used real fake snow on it! (You know what I mean...)

Teri from A Cupcake for the Teacher  has a cute Snowman Ornament to share. This would be fun for anytime in winter- and those ornaments should be on sale now, too!

Occasionally Crafty has  a melted version!



I also loved these Glowing Snowmen at Stuff By Ash!  Now is the time to get cheap Christmas lights, too!





Don't you love these Spiral Snowmen from Fun Family Crafts?

These are Clay Pot Snowmen (I just saw a package of them at the Dollar Store!), but you could also use Styrofoam cups.

I love MaryAnn Jenkins Tea Light Snowmen at I Rock Paper and Scissors (I loved her blog name, too)!

The marstonfam.blogspot shared this cute Cereal Box Snowman! (It's a private blog but so glad she shared the picture because it is precious!)  Gift boxes are 75% off now lots of places, too- so you can stock up. It would be fun to have all different sizes to choose from. I was thinking how to paint the boxes white... then... duh... realized that I can actually BUY white boxes! 

Look how cute these Snowman Wrapped Gifts are from Make It- Love It.  You could even wrap a pack of cards , a candy bar, or a pretty smelling bar of soap,  and decorate it cute like this.



Isn't this Windblown Snowman from Artsonia cute? I love the expression you can get just from circles!

I thought these Snowman Magnets from Make and Takes were precious!

Mama Smiles has these cute Popsicle Stick Snowmen ornaments.  Again, these would make cute magnets or even reading pointers!



Frugal and Fun Mom shared these cute Cotton Ball Snowmen. I love crafts that are quick and easy- and so cute. These would be great little magnets for the refrigerator- or even puppets!

I love these QTip Paint Snowmen from Nadine on Pinterest. These would be perfect for my Seurat Artist Study with pointillism! ("Seurat, Seurat, he painted with a dot," is how I always remember him with my Kindergarten brain!)

That reminded me of a snow globe- and I loved this Snow Globe Snowman from Deceptively Educational.  I have seen several, but this looks so easy to do and cute!

You can read this sweet story to go along with the snow globe art!

Kids Activity Blog shared this cute Picture Snowman magnetic picture frame.

I also love these  precious Snowchildren from The Pike Family.

Craft Elf has some cute Water Bottle Snowmen!  You could fill it with anything- shredded paper, marshmallows, cotton balls, rice... 

Oh My! Creative shared these Sudsy Snowmen.  My kids would LOVE these! 

I was thinking you could put white finger paint in a baggie like we do to practice writing letters and sight words, and dress the bag up with Sharpies  to look like a snowman, to make practicing writing on the bag more special for winter!

Happy Hooligans showed some cute CD Snowmen ornaments.

Metamore Community Preschool shared a fun Snowman Counting Game made from a milk or water container.  I loved this idea!  You could even use cotton balls to count- or put in cotton balls and sight words and have the kids pull out a sight word to read.  There are so many possibilities. I just loved the idea of the simple jug!

How about some Potato Print Snowmen from Growing a Jeweled Rose?  These are so cute.

Or these Cup Printed Snowmen from Playing House in Maryland!



I love these Emotional Snowmen from No Time for Flash Cards.  I have never thought of using the food markers to decorate them.  These would be so much fun.

These Marshmallow Snowmen are from Flexible Dreams.



 Krafty Kid has a Puffy Paint Snowman using shaving cream and glue for the paint.

I love this Paper Loop Snowman from the Learning Bug! I am definitely going to make this with the kids.

Make and Takes shared this cute Shredded Paper Snowman Craft.



Craft Elf has a cute Melted Snowman craft. It reminds me of the glue ghosts and would be cute hanging in a window!

Kiwi Crate  shared this cute Melted Snowman Craft. Easy. Fun. Just what I love!

This Melted Snowman Writing Activity is fun, from Project Oriented. 

We had fun making these Letter Snowmen last year with our names. This picture is from Kindergarten-Lessons.com.

Laura G has a Snowman Name Activity at her TPT Store that goes along with this craft idea!



These Doily Snowmen are from Happy Holidays.





These snowmen are precious from bamcraftymommas.

Mamas Like Me shared these cute Sock Snowmen.  I used to make them for my kids for gifts- and sort of forgot them!  I have seen other sites with them but I like hers, because they are simple and do-able.  Some of them have separate hats. I like these where the hat is the top of the sock. Perfect! That was what I did, too.  It's easy to add a scrap of fabric for a scarf- but the extra hat seems like work, so... this hat is great!

Here is another version from The Best Kids Crafts:

Handprint and Footprint Art shared this cute Snowman Craft! 

That reminded me of this ornament from Full of Great Ideas, which again, doesn't just have to be for Christmas. You could have such an adorable little Winter Snowman Tree with all the cute ornament ideas out there!







Modern Parents Messy Kids shared how to make snowmen inside!

Jennifer Brown has some cute Snowman Play Doh Mats  at her TPT Store. 

This Hungry Snowman Game game looks cute from Cul-de-sac Cool. 

How cute are these Snowman Kits from Tip Junkie? What a fun gift or favor!

Don't you love The Queen of Re's Upside Down Snowman? 

 

How about some snowman food ideas?

Stephanie, from The Stamps of Life, shared this Snowman Soup idea.

The Resource Room Teacher shared some cute Snowman Soup Labels at her TPT Store.  I am going to use these to go with my kids' Valentines this year.



This was a sweet gift idea, too. There was nothing at the link, but you get the idea from the picture!

These were such cute Snowman Cups on Pinterest. (The site wasn't available anymore.)

Come Together Kids made these free Melted Snowman Printables for water bottles. SO cute!

Delia Creates shared this cute Snowman Pizza idea. How fun!

I LOVE these Snowman Donuts from Creative Holiday Gift Ideas!

I make these SIMPLE snowman cups decorated with Sharpies to go with these precious donuts.  You can use a smaller (shorter) cup, but experience has taught me... using the bigger one= less spills. You don't have to fill it so full.  Also, normally I use a plain plastic cup without the design. I just didn't have one to show you.

Or how about these cuties from Paint Me Plaid?

I had two moms make these precious cheese stick snowmen for snack for my class. 

This little snack was adorable, too! (The link was NOT to the correct site so I didn't include it... that's all I am going to say...  :)  But I didn't want to take it out on the precious snack. He is so cute! )

Or if you prefer Nutterbutter Snowmen- these are from My Pretty Purse.





These Snowmen from Hungry Happenings are adorable, too.




These Melted Snowmen Cookies are from Stacey's Sweet Shop.  I have made them before- except the cheating way with pre-made cookie dough... simple!

 I love this Snowman Cheeseball from Karly Dornacher.

 Kids Activities has these cute Snowman Pancakes.  I made these for my kids, and they  always loved them.  Add lots of cool whip snow or white chocolate chip snow, and you are all set! You can also add sausage links for arms if your kids aren't bacon lovers. (I know- who isn't a bacon lover?!)

And of course, I found LOTS of TPT Freebies.  There are some precious things out there!

First, here are some  Snowman Math Freebies.

This Snowman Roll and Record Activity from Judy Buckley would be a fun math center.

The Kindergarten Pod shared Snowman Math Games.



I like this Snowman Ten Frames Math Practice Book from Melissa Pastorello.

JD's Rockin Readers has a fun Number Sequencing Activity.

 

Miss Kindergarten Love made a cute Build a Snowman Number Center Activity.



This How Many Snowmen?  by Sarah Griffin paper would be fun for morning work or a math center!

Beavertales has a fun way to practice Snowman Addition!

Lindsay Elkins has a cute 100 Chart Snowman. I love using these with my kids!



Here is a Snowman Number Match activity from Kindergarten Fever.



My kids always can use number practice like this Snowman Number Practice Packet from Kaleigh's Klassroom.



 Snowman Button Counting from Erin (Creating and Teaching) would be a fun math center!

  

Shauna M made a great Teen Number Snowman Math Puzzle.  She also has One to Ten and Counting by Tens!

 

First Grade Garden shared this Snowman Number and Counting Activity packet that would make a great  math center.



This cute Snowman Numbers Tally Marks Match is from Kid Sparkz.

From the Pond shared this adorable Snowman Makes Ten activity!

I like this Snowman Number Picture Match from Loving Primary.

Amy Small shared these cute Base 10 Snowmen.

Rhonda Baldachinno made this cute Counting to Ten with Snowmen Activity.

Abby Buettner made a fun Snowmen Roll and Cover Game.

I love Vera Corbett's  Roll a Snowman. 

Amber Monroe shared this sweet Snowman Comparison Activity.



Teacher Tam has a fabulous Snowman Stuff Math and Literacy Freebie at her TPT Store.

Here are some Snowman ELA Freebies!

Deedee Wills shared an adorable Snowman Sight Word Bingo Game! I can't wait to play this and use mini marshmallow snowballs for the markers!

Shawna Devoe made a cute Roll and Read Snowmen Activity to share.

 

Clip Art by Carrie has a fun Roll, Color, Read, and Label Activity.



All Students Can Shine has a wonderful Snowman Sight Word Games packet.

Melissa Freshwater made a cute Snowman Slap Sight Word Game.



This Snowman Says Writing With Quotation Marks is an adorable idea from Fun in K1.

 

Lorie Duggins shared this Snowman Literacy Pack with five games included.

I really like this Build a Snowman CVC Words activity from Kinderpillars! It works on small, medium, large- and CVC words.  The words would be cute to have up for write/read around the room.

Nerissa Reddick made a really cute How to Build A Snowman Book that you can read to your class. 

After this introduction to First, Next, Then, and Last, you can have your class work with these writing prompts!



Nicki Wendel has a cute Snowman Writing Activity.



Amy Melisi has this cute version.

Stephanie Manley has some cute Snowman Centers for ABC order and CVC words.

Stephanie Ann has a great Snowman Beginning Sounds Center.





This is a helpful Snowmen at Night Graphic Organizer by Fun in K1.

Tara Burrage made a fun Snowmen CVC Word Building Activity.

First Grade Blue Skies shared this great Snowman Writing Freebie Packet.

Lauren Lynes shared this Lifecycle of a Snowman Activity which is great for a states of matter lesson as well as a sequencing writing activity.

Can Do Kinders has a great My Snowman Emergent Reader.



Elizabeth Hall has a cute Emergent Reader, too- Snowman, Snowman What Do You See?

I like this Snowman Glyph by Miss Kindergarten Love!

I love these Snowman Sequencing Cards by Randi. These would be so much fun for the children to order and then write about afterward.

I hope you found lots of fun things to try! I know I could be busy with snowmen for a LONG time.

 

Thank you for stopping by.  Stay cozy!  Stop over and see me at my blog or my facebook page!