Cotton pad snowmen

Here's another idea for a snowman-based activity suitable for toddlers/preschoolers. Again, it's really simple and everything is reusable. We used a range of materials for this activity: cotton wool pads, a range of small sticks we collected on a wintery walk, coloured sugar paper, buttons, pom-pom balls, googly eyes and some small pieces of coloured ribbon.

The cotton wool pads obviously function as the heads/bodies of the snowmen and the rest of the materials are used as decoration. I just left Tommy to it and he experimented for a whole hour creating a range of different snowmen. He really did love this activity. To make it more educational, you could put a number on the hats and get children to include that number of buttons on the snowman's body or even write the letters of their name on each of the cotton wool pads. We didn't do either of these, as Tommy is past the stage of recognising numbers to 10 and and being able to write his name.