Snowman Family Coloring Page

This snowman family coloring page has five members, and each one is dressed in a different way. Dad is the tall one on the left, with a brown bowler hat and a big bow tie. Mom wears a wide brimmed hat with a flower on the side and a long striped scarf. Between them stands their kid in a bobble hat, holding on to both parents with little stick arms. A baby in a soft bonnet sits at the front, and a snow puppy with floppy ears lies down at the corner.

A log cabin sits on the hill behind them with smoke curling up out of the chimney. Clouds and snowflakes fill the top of the page.

Who this page suits

Medium is our rating for this family of snowmen. Kids aged 4 to 9 do well with it. The big bottom snowballs are easy, while the cabin windows and the small faces ask for a steadier hand. Plan on 20 to 30 minutes. A 4-year-old may color only the hats and scarves, and that still looks great.

Parents like this one because it opens up a nice talk. Ask your child who each snowman could be. The tall one might be Grandpa. The baby might be a little sister. The puppy nearly always gets a name within the first minute.

Snowman family coloring page color ideas

Give every family member one main color so the group does not turn into a blur. In our colored sample, Dad has a brown hat with a yellow band and a red bow tie. Mom gets purple with a pink flower and a teal scarf. The kid wears a red and green hat with an orange scarf, and the baby has a pale pink bonnet with a yellow bow.

Your child may want to match real people instead. Use Mom's favorite color for the hat, or copy the stripes on a real scarf from the closet. That small step makes the page feel like theirs.

For the snow, leave the bodies white and color the far hill very pale blue. The cabin looks warm in tan with yellow windows, and those windows are the first thing the eye goes to once the sky is blue.

Tips for the small parts

• Start with the faces while your child is fresh. The carrots are small, so a sharp colored pencil works better than a crayon.
• Color the sky around the hats slowly. If the blue slips into a hat, it can turn a yellow band green.
• Use a soft gray for the curved shadow lines on each snowball. Follow the line and fade it out toward the middle.
• Do the log cabin one log at a time, going from side to side, so the wood looks like long planks.

Snowman history for curious kids

Snowmen have a longer past than most of us guess. Wikipedia's snowman article says the artist Michelangelo was asked to make one in 1494, for the Medici family in Italy. The same article lists a giant snow woman named Olympia, built in Bethel, Maine, in 2008. She stood 122 feet and 1 inch tall. Ask your kids how many of this family they would need to stack to reach her head.

A family activity for after

Cut the finished picture into five pieces, one for each family member, and have your child put them back in order from tallest to shortest. Younger kids get a sorting game out of it, and older kids can write a name tag for each one.

Here is a good one for class. Ask each student to write one sentence about what their snow family does on the first warm day. The answers tend to be pretty funny, and they make a nice wall display.

More winter fun

If your crew enjoyed this one, try the building a snowman coloring page next. It shows the moment before a snowman is finished. Then warm up with the hot chocolate coloring page and a real mug on the table.

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