Happy Snowman Toss Game For Kids

We spent all terminal calendar week exploring as well as creating using a snowman subject at our snowman tot school! We also featured snowmen for our picayune preschool terminal week! 

Today I am excited to portion i of the unproblematic (and active) ways that nosotros had fun amongst snowmen terminal week. We did a unproblematic snowman toss game!

Our snowman toss game was a fun means to operate on hand-eye coordination as well as railroad train gross motor as well as fine motor skills. We also embedded a picayune counting into the activeness as well as talked most sizes!

To larn started you lot solely involve a few materials...

Materials Needed: 

• posterboard or heavy card
• scissors
• markers
• white newspaper scraps 
• black cardstock
• painters tape
• pencil

Before you lot tin larn started playing you lot involve to brand your picayune snowman! I made this snowman ahead of fourth dimension earlier our picayune preschool got started.

To make:

Start past times drawing a snowman on posterboard amongst pencil as well as and therefore cutting it out.

Next cutting out the middle of the snowman to create a hole where the kids tin toss the snowballs.

After that, role marking to add together features similar eyes, a carrot nose, as well as a mouth. 

Lastly, cutting out a dark move past times lid as well as add together it on move past times amongst record or glue.

Secure the snowman inward house amongst around sturdy painters record upward high inward a doorway or fifty-fifty stuck to te side of a table.

Once your snowman is made, bring the kids get together together as well as scrunch upward newspaper scraps to brand snowballs of all dissimilar sizes.

I loved how big around of the snowballs turned out.

To play:

Playing the game was the easiest part! The kids took turns sitting along the wall spell each friend got a gamble to toss an entire circular of snowballs throught the snowman hole. Then they rotated to the side past times side kid. I genuinely persuasion the snowman would hold upward every bit good high for the kids (who are 3-4) only they surprised me amongst their decision to launch those snowballs!

After each plough the pocket-size picked upward all the snowballs as well as counted how many he/she got through the snowman. 

This game was seriously therefore fun as well as simple. I also persuasion that the kids would hitting downward our snowman, only it stayed up. Hooray!

In add-on to playing our snowman game nosotros also read The Snowy Day past times Ezra Jack Keats.

Do you lot bring whatsoever other favorite indoor ACTIVE wintertime activities?

We dear our indoor snowball publish race. We also intend these 12 active indoor activities are smashing for keeping kids busy as well as moms sane during the winter! 

Need to a greater extent than ideas? Check out our Mitten Themed Tot schoolhouse activities that nosotros are featuring this week.

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