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By Amanda Boyarshinov 6 Comments

3 Fun & Easy Snowman Vocabulary Activities for Preschool

It’s a great time of year to play and learn with snowmen!  Here are 3 fun & easy snowman vocabulary activities for preschool. Try them during after school playtime. No snow? Make a pretend snowman with felt!

Snowman Vocabulary Activities

Time needed: 5 minutes per activity

Materials Needed:

  • Snow
  • Snowman Book

Activity 1: Using words to describe concepts of size.

In this activity you will need 3 different size snowballs.

  1. Explain to your preschooler that words can describe the size of something.  
  2. Make or point to the head of the snowman. Explain that the head is BIG.  
  3. Have them point out the difference in sizes

BIG – BIGGER – BIGGEST

If you have time, put yourselves in order from big to biggest kid!

Activity 2: Action words>

In this activity, your preschooler will perform or pretend to perform the action word.

  1. >Say the word.
  2. Demonstrate how the action would look like. Encourage the child to join in.
  3. Repeat steps 1-2 for each word.
  4. Call out the words and have the child make the action.

pat, scoop, roll, push, smooth

Activity 3: Make a sentence

Young children may have difficulty forming a sentence when asked. This playful activity encourages children to practice orally creating a sentence, meaning – they put the two main parts together out loud. No writing is involved.

Explain to your child in simple terms that sentence are made of two parts. The subject, meaning who or what the sentence is about. And what that subject does (or did). In this game one person gets to pick the subject, the person, animal or object.

  1. They say the selected subject out loud.
  2. The other person gets to finish the sentence by describing what they are doing.

Child: The snowman...

Adult: sits on the hill.

Even More PLAYful Preschool Snowman Activities:

Snowman Literacy Activities for Preschool:

Snowman Mitten Match Alphabet Activity by Growing Book by Book

Snowman at Night-Preschool Craft by Capri + 3

Snowman Math Activities for Preschool: 

Snowman Peg and Count by Rainy Day Mum

Snowman Sensory and Creative Exploration Activities for Preschool:

Make a Snowman from Things in the Kitchen! by Powerful Mothering

Melted Snowman Painting by Learning 2 Walk

Build a Snowman Indoors by Mom Inspired Life

Baked Cotton Ball Snowman Craft by Still Playing School

Build a Snowman Creativity Prompt by Raising Lifelong Learners

Snowman Snack Ideas:

Snowman Snack Ideas by Fun-A-Day

 

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Snowman Literacy Connections:

The Biggest, Best Snowman.

In this story little Nell is told she is too little to help. She heads to the forest to play with her animal friends. They work together to build the Biggest, Best Snowman. Take away: Working together with others, you can accomplish big things!

The Biggest Snowman Ever

 The ever popular mice, Clayton and Desmond join forces once again to create the biggest snowman ever in this adorable picture book for young children.

All You Need for a Snowman

 A simple rhyming text to tell the story of everything needed to build a snowman of epic proportions!

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About Amanda Boyarshinov

K - 12 masters reading teacher, author and mom to 3. Amanda is a National Board Certified teacher with oodles of experience in early childhood education.

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Comments

  1. Growing Book by Book says

    January 21, 2015 at 7:49 am

    Such fun ways to build language skills!

    Reply
  2. Natasha Johnson says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:48 am

    Oh, I love how this activity builds the language skill!

    Reply
  3. Nicolette Roux says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:45 am

    I just love the big bigger biggest image!

    Reply
  4. Danielle Buckley says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:50 am

    I love these activities for building vocabulary. My son would really enjoy acting out the action words!

    Reply
  5. Theresa A says

    January 21, 2015 at 10:01 am

    I like the idea of lining children up b size using big, bigger and biggest. That way, all children are 'big' and do not have to worry about being the smallest or shortest.

    Reply
  6. Colleen Kessler says

    January 21, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    Fun ideas here for building literacy skills — especially working on size words. Thanks for the great ideas!

    Reply

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