Building a Snowman Coloring Page

This building a snowman coloring page catches the best moment of the job. A kid in a zigzag sweater reaches up beside a finished snowman, and his tall top hat is still tipped to one side. The snowman has three round parts, a carrot nose, a coal smile and a long scarf. Behind them you will find a log cabin with smoke rising from the chimney, a wooden fence, snowy mountains and a tall pine. It is a medium page for ages 4 to 9.

Most children spend 30 to 40 minutes here. With so much of the snowman left white, younger kids still get a quick win.

What to color first

Walk through the page in this order and small kids will not feel lost:

• The hat and scarf, since these are the bold spots on the snowman.
• The carrot nose, which is tiny and easy to miss under the hat brim.
• The kid, one piece of clothing at a time.
• The cabin, the fence and the pine tree, then the sky at the very end.

Coloring the sky last means a wet marker or a crayon smudge will not spoil the details you just finished.

Building a snowman coloring page color ideas

Our sample keeps it classic. The hat is navy with a red band, and the scarf is the same red. That same red shows up again on the kid's hat, as if the two were friends. Copying one color across the picture is a simple trick that makes a page feel planned.

The kid wears a green sweater with a white zigzag band, a red and white hat and orange mittens in our version, with blue pants and brown boots. Your child might prefer their own winter gear, so bring the coat from the closet and match it.

Leave the snowman white, but do not leave him flat. Shade one side of each ball with pale blue, always the same side, and he will look round. The eyes and mouth are already solid black, so they need no work at all.

Look closer

This drawing has a few details that are fun to spot. A small red bird sits by the snowman's stick arm. A shovel stands in the snow next to the kid, and a red sled waits in the corner. And five dots make the smile, a good number for counting.

It is good hand practice too. A brown crayon held like a pencil works well on the thin stick arms and the little twig fingers.

A very old winter habit

People have been building snowmen for a long time. Bob Eckstein, who wrote a book on the history of the snowman, told NPR about his research. The first documented snowman he found was in an illuminated manuscript from 1380. That is a hand-decorated book, and the little snowman was drawn in the margin of the page.

He adds that snowmen were made before that, which makes sense, since snow melts and leaves no record. A photograph from 1845 also shows one, and Eckstein calls it among the earliest photographs ever taken. Kids tend to love the idea that a snowman was posing for pictures that long ago.

Snowman activities

Paper snowmen are quick to make, and all you need is three circles in three sizes, a pair of kid scissors and a glue stick. Cut them from white paper, then have your child put them in order from big to small. It is a quick lesson in sorting.

Now try a game. Ask what came first, the three balls or the hat. Have kids draw or tell the steps in order, then act them out. First, second, next and last are useful words for early writers.

Give the snowman a name and write it across the snow at the bottom. For older kids, the writing prompt is simple. If this snowman could talk, what would he say to the kid who just gave him a hat?

On a warm day, freeze a cup of water and set it outside. Check every 10 minutes and talk about what happens to a real snowman in the sun.

More friends for your snowman

Liked this building a snowman coloring page? Our snowman coloring page puts the big guy front and center. Next, try the winter hat and scarf coloring page, which has the same kind of knit patterns.

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