Snowman emotions activities that help little learners name their feelings this winter! Happy, sad, worried, silly and proud snowmen give children a friendly way to talk about emotions in your preschool, pre-K, kindergarten or early elementary classroom.

The Snowman Emotions Mini-Pack includes 3 hands-on activities for reviewing emotions. Children match snowman feelings, move around the room to find and record emotion words and read their own snowman feelings book. It's a simple, playful way to build feelings vocabulary during a winter theme.

With this snowman emotions mini-pack, you get

• 3 hands-on activities for naming emotions
• Friendly snowman faces that show each feeling
• A matching game, a write/draw the room activity and an emergent reader
• Easy options for centers, small groups and independent reading

Print, play and watch children grow their feelings vocabulary one snowman at a time.

What's Included

• Snowman Emotions Matching Game: Match the snowman feelings
• Write/Draw the Room: Children find the snowman emotions posted around the room and write or draw what they find
• Snowman Emotions Emergent Reader: A printable feelings book with snowman pictures

Feelings shown in the previews include happy, sad, worried, silly and proud.

Why Teachers Love It

• Feelings made visible: Snowman faces help children see what each emotion looks like.
• Three ways to practice: A game, a movement activity and a book give children several chances to name the same feelings.
• Movement built in: Write/draw the room gets children up and exploring while they practice emotion words.
• Write or draw: Children who are not yet writing can still take part by drawing what they find.
• Perfect for winter: The snowman theme fits right into a winter or snow unit.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Emotion recognition: Children look at each snowman face and name the feeling it shows.
• Emotion vocabulary: Feelings words such as worried, silly and proud become part of everyday conversation.
• Visual discrimination: The matching game asks children to look closely at each snowman.
• Early reading: The emergent reader gives children a simple book to read about feelings.
• Early writing: Write/draw the room gives practice recording words or pictures.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Communicating choices and feelings
• Listening to classmates
• Taking turns
• Following directions
• Building confidence during group participation

How to Use It

Step 1: Print the activities. Prepare the matching game pieces and post the write/draw the room cards around your classroom.

Step 2: Introduce each snowman feeling together. Talk about what the snowman's face shows and when children might feel that way.

Step 3: Play the matching game in a center or small group, send children around the room to write or draw what they find and finish with the emergent reader.

Easy Differentiation

Children understand and express feelings in very different ways. This mini-pack makes it simple to meet each child where they are.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with a few familiar feelings such as happy and sad
• Use fewer pieces in the matching game
• Let children draw what they find during write/draw the room
• Model each feeling with your own face and voice

For On-Level Practice

• Play the matching game with all of the snowman feelings
• Write the emotion words during write/draw the room
• Read the emergent reader with a partner

For an Extra Challenge

• Tell about a time they felt like one of the snowmen
• Write a sentence about a feeling after write/draw the room
• Read the emergent reader independently and share a favorite page

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Practice feelings vocabulary with the snowman pictures
• Use language frames such as "The snowman feels ___."
• Offer a choice between two snowman feelings when a child is answering
• Give extra processing time and model each activity before children begin

Perfect For

• Winter and snow themes
• Feelings units
• Morning meeting and circle time
• Centers and small groups
• Counseling sessions
• Speech therapy sessions
• Special education classrooms
• Homeschool preschool

Standards

These snowman emotions activities support the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (2021), and they build toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS (ELAR, adopted 2017) and the Virginia English SOL (2024):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS L.K.5.c: Identify real-life connections between words and their use, such as telling when they have felt worried or proud.
• CCSS L.K.6: Use words and phrases learned through conversations, reading and being read to.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.I.B.2.b: Use words, faces and actions to communicate basic emotions and feelings.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.II.D.1: Understand and use a wide variety of words to label and describe feelings.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS ELAR K.3.B: Use illustrations to learn or clarify word meanings, such as matching feeling words to snowman pictures.
• TEKS ELAR K.1.E: Develop social communication such as expressing needs and wants.

Virginia Early Learning and Development Standards

• Virginia ELDS SED2.1: See and name emotions in self and others with the snowman faces.
• Virginia ELDS SED2.3: Communicate feelings, wants and needs while talking about each snowman.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL English K.RV.1.C: Use vocabulary from across content areas, including feelings words.

Grab the Snowman Emotions Mini-Pack and give your learners 3 hands-on ways to name their feelings this winter. Print the activities, introduce the snowmen and watch children build feelings vocabulary through play. Add it to your cart today!

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