Easy Snowman Activity For Toddlers

This snowman activity is essentially the same as the Feed The Turkey activity I posted last month for Thanksgiving, just wintery instead!

And one of the great things about this one is that you can have it out all winter, not just for Christmas!

How to Make your Snowman Activity

To make this I actually reused the same bottle as the turkey, I just popped everything off and gave the bottle a good scrub to get the soap off. Easy peasy.

If you didn’t see that post, the glass bottle I used is from a Starbucks’ bottled coffee. They are my favorite bottles to use for things like this.

Other items used are: red and orange felt, black sharpie, and cotton balls

I understand that giving a glass bottle to a toddler can certainly seem like a bad idea…. However, I actually love to give her glass for certain things because it teaches early on about different materials and that you must be careful with glass items. I have only had one glass thing break and a lesson was definitely learned from it.

Check out the reel I posted on Instagram for a short video tutorial!

To assemble your snowman you will cut a scarf and carrot nose out of felt and use hot glue to attach them to the bottle (any other glue would probably work just as well, I prefer hot glue for this one because it dries so quickly).

Then use your sharpie to draw eyes, mouth and buttons directly on the glass.

And bam, your done already!

Playtime

Set your snowman out with a bowl of cotton balls (snowballs) and some little tongs so your kid can fill him up. It’s so cute and easy!

If you have multiple kids, or maybe for a Christmas party, I love the idea of making a snowman for each child and having them race to see who can get 10 (or however many) snowballs into their bottle first (one at a time of course). Maybe that will be one for next year when Winnie is older and can participate.