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Monday, January 13, 2025

Winter Snow Activities for Kids

We don't get a lot of snow here in the South, but his past weekend, we got a whole 2 inches at my house. The snow didn't completely cover all of our grass, but we had enough to enjoy. I love watching the snow fall and the winter wonderland it creates as it blankets the ground. I don't particularly like to get out in it, but my daughter took my granddaughter (her niece) out for a few minutes to play. The powdery snow didn't last long. As is usual around here, the snow becomes icy pretty quick. Many of you live in areas where you get lots and lots and lots of snow so you are able to get your kids out more often to enjoy your winter wonderland. Engaging in winter snow activities encourages exercise, imaginative play, and provides opportunities for family bonding. Let's explore a variety of winter snow activities that will keep your kids entertained and active, making the most of winter fun while it lasts.

Outdoor Winter Snow Activities

Winter Bowling Game: You can make an outdoor bowling game by stacking up a row of plastic cups. Stack each set of cups in a triangle tower. Encourage your kids to pack snowballs to use as bowling balls. See who can knock down the most cups. If you don't want to make one yourself, here are several cute options.

Winter Scavenger Hunt: On a sheet of paper, draw several pictures of outdoor items that can be found in your yard. You might draw an acorn if you have Oak trees. You might draw a pebble if you have pebbles near by. Other ideas are bird nest, flower pot, porch sign . . . anything your kids can look for around your house when it snows. Here is one you can purchase if you want to.

This Winter Scavenger Hunt Game is available here.

Snowball Target Practice: Set up a few targets on a fence or porch railing. Let the kids throw snowballs to see if they can knock down the targets. Choose a safe place for the kids and protect your windows.

Make ice ornaments: Pour wanter into shallow bowls. Tell your kids to place flowers, acorns, sticks, pebbles, evergreen leaves, or whatever they think is pretty. Place a string, yarn, or cord into the water, but leave a loop hanging out of the water. After the water freezes, break away the ice and tell your kids to hang their ornament masterpieces on outdoor tree limbs or nearby bushes.

Take a nature walk: Bundle up for this one. You can carry hot cocoa with you in a thermos for a warm drink along the trail.

Snow paint: Use colored water in spray bottles. Let the kids use their imaginations and go wild with this one.

Snowball in a Spoon Relay Race: Give your kids a spoon and line them up. Place a snowball in each spoon. Have the kids race to a line in your yard without dropping the snowball.

Create Snowmen or a whole snow family: Get the whole family involved. Each family member can make a snowman or snowwoman to represent himself or herself. The result is a snow family that resembles your human family.

Indoor Winter Snow Activities

Indoor Snow: If you have real snow, you can bring a big bowl of snow inside. Let the kids use plastic people, houses, and animals to create snow villages. If you don't have real snow, you can make fake snow using baking soda and shaving cream. Learn more about that here at Make Life Lovely.

Snowflake Art: Using glue, salt, and watercolor paints, kids can decorate beautiful snowflakes on paper. I suggest using cardstock. You pre-draw a snowflake on each sheet or print snowflake images using your home printer. Let the kids use the glue, salt and paint to decorate the snowflakes. Be sure to hang them up somewhere so that your kids can enjoy them for a while.

Indoor Balloon Snowman: Blow up white balloons. Help the kids glue the balloons together to make an indoor snowman. They can draw on the faces and buttons. You could pre-cut fabrics so that they can dress up their indoor snowmen.

Create a snowstorm in a jar: This is a fun science experiment for kids. Head over here to MomBrite to learn how to do this.

Play Pin the Nose on the Snowman: This is fun spin off the old game, Pin the Tale on the Donkey. You can draw it up yourself and cut out the carrot noses for the kids to pin or you can get a set already made up for you here.

This cute Pin the Nose on the Snowman is available here.

Snowman Coloring Book for Kids: You can download my Snowman Coloring Book for Kids to your home computer, print it out, and let the kids start coloring right away.

This Snowman Coloring Book for Kids is available here.

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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Snowman Coloring Book for Kids - Practice Color Words (Freebie Included in this Post)

It's January! Wells, it's almost January. As I write this post, it is actually New Year's Eve here in the southeastern region of the United States, but I'm preparing for all the fun stuff ahead for the new year, particularly January. I have lots of snow themed activities to share with you on my Facebook page for the first week in January. We will be doing polar bear activities in the second week, and then on to penguin fun. Today, I want to share with you a new file I just finished. It's hot off the press, so to speak. Introducing my new Snowman Coloring Book for Kids.

Coloring is good for kids. Coloring helps children improve small motor skills. Coloring keeps children focused on one activity for a long period of time, helping to improve attention spans, especially kids who particularly enjoy coloring. Coloring in coloring books helps improve creativity.

Coloring is great for other areas of development as well. Coloring helps children build relationships when they color together. Completing coloring pages together builds teamwork skills when children share pages and crayons. This activity might even help improve negotiating skills as children discuss which colors to use and which colors compliment other colors.

Children might stumble upon a science lesson when they discover that some colors, when combined, create new colors.

Coloring can be a great way to spend time as a family. Pull out coloring books, crayons, markers, watercolors, and tempera paints. Set a few hours aside to build and improve on all the skills above while enjoying hours of quality time together as a family.

Snowman Coloring Book for Kids - Practice Color Words

This Snowman Coloring Book includes a total of 7 pages, a cover page plus 6 pages for your child or classroom children to color. Your kids will first follow the one step direction on each page. For example, on the first coloring page, the one step direction says, "Color the snowman's scarf red."

At the end of each one step direction on each page is an image of the crayon color to match the direction. This will help your child to identify the correct color. The color word is written on each crayon image as well as in the one step direction so your child can practice identifying color words and matching the color to the color word. The color words to practice in this coloring book are red, orange, black, blue, purple, and green.

Here is one page I'll offer you for free. Simply right-click and save this page to your computer. Then, print it out for your child to color. Of course, I hope you will consider the complete 7 page coloring book that you'll find here.

Snowman Coloring Page for Kids - Practice the Color Word "Red"

After your child has finished following the direction on each page, you can certainly allow your child to finish coloring each page as he or she desires. Then, if you have snow in your area, get the kids outside for a fun time playing in the snow.

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Snowman Activities for Kids

Snow Activities for Kids

I think most of the United States is still recovering from last week's heavy snow up north and record cold temperatures here in the southeast; though we did get a light dusting of snow here in the north Georgia area. You might be tired of snow, but I can just about guarantee you that the kids are not. January is a good time to get out the art and craft supplies and do lots of cool snow activities for kids. Even if you live in an area where you never see snow, you can still have some snow fun because you can make fake snow at home.

Here's a list of fun snow themed activities for you to enjoy with your kids at home and in the classroom.