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Snowman activities for Winter

Published: 04 Jun 2021 Tagged: activitieschildrenCommunicationreadingsnowmanSpeakablespeakingwinterwriting
Snowman activities for Winter

You may have seen some activities Speakable recommended to conduct with your children during Winter in our blog. If not, click here and here to read about them. For this Winter, we have just come with three more ideas, all of them related to the famous snowman, a fun presence anywhere there is snow and children (or youthful adults, why not?). Check them out below:

  • Frosty the Snowman. You can use the lyrics of this song to engage children to sing, or you can analyse the words and expressions from the lyrics itself. Another good way to use the song is by asking the child to retell the story in their own words, as well as making specific questions regarding the story.
  • Snowman roleplay. You can bring a top hat like the one worn by the Snowman for the child to wear it and pretend they are a snowman becoming alive. According to the child’s level of vocabulary and expressive language, you should provide prompts such as “As a snowman, I am” to guide them to express themselves with simple words such as “white”, “cold”, “made of snow”, “happy”, among others. Or else, when the child has a better vocabulary and expressive language, no prompts should be used and the complexity should be higher about the snowman, such as “carrot nose”, “coal buttons”, “red scarf”, “three large snowballs” etc.
  • Snowman building instructions. In order to stimulate sequencing and ordinal activities, this activity consists in talking about how to build a snowman, step by step. The child should be able to give a proper sequence of events. In order to make it funny, the child’s steps should be noted and literally followed after all the explanation, building a snowman from those instructions. If there is a wrong sequence, there should be something wrong that would make the child laugh, but learn that a proper order should be told for a correct snowman.

With all the other activities from our blogposts here and here, these three additions will make this cold Winter become much more fun!

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