I have another free therapy slide deck to share today. This build a snowman activity is an interactive Google slide deck that kids can use to work on eye-hand coordination, spatial awareness concepts, visual scanning, and handwriting (or typing) skills. This snowman activity is based off our popular disguise a turkey slide deck and our decorate a gingerbread house slide decks from earlier this year. If these slide decks are helpful for your virtual occupational therapy interventions, grab this free resource at the bottom of this post and browse the other free slides there.
Build a Snowman Virtually!
Looking for a creative winter-themed activity that builds essential skills while keeping kids engaged? This interactive virtual snowman activity allows kids to make a snowman right on the screen using a Google Slides deck.
No mittens required! Whether you’re using it in a therapy session, classroom, or at home, this snowman building activity makes screen time meaningful. Children can drag and drop pieces to assemble their own snowperson, building a frosty friend AND they’re also strengthening developmental skills.
Why a Snowman Building Kit Supports Development
This digital snowman building kit includes a variety of hats, eyes, noses, arms, scarves, and accessories, allowing endless combinations for children to customize their snowman to make.
As they move items across the screen, kids practice mouse control, keyboard navigation, and visual-motor coordination. These are all essential components of classroom readiness. It’s a playful way to incorporate fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination into a virtual setting, especially when trying to target specific skills.
Skills Addressed During Snowman Activities
Interactive snowman activities go far beyond simple drag-and-drop fun. Children work on visual scanning, visual figure ground, visual memory, and spatial awareness as they search for and organize parts.
These perceptual skills are essential for handwriting, reading, and self-care tasks. For occupational therapy practitioners, educators, or caregivers, this snowperson activity can be used intentionally to target specific developmental goals in a motivating way.
Use in Virtual Therapy or In-Person Sessions
This interactive snowman deck is ideal for virtual therapy sessions, making it easier for OT providers to deliver engaging and goal-based treatment even through a screen. But it’s just as powerful for in-person use to let kids take turns to build a snowman as part of a winter-themed group activity or 1:1 skill-based intervention. Use it as a warm-up before handwriting practice or as a fun reward for task completion.
Adapt the Activity Across Ages and Skill Levels
Younger children in preschool or kindergarten can use the snowman slide deck to learn basic directional concepts (left, right, above, below), while older students can use it for more advanced visual memory or spatial planning tasks. Therapists and teachers can modify the directions: ask the child to copy a model, remember a sequence, or write a short story about their snowperson after building.
Make a Snowman That’s Uniquely Theirs
Kids love expressing creativity, and giving them the chance to create a snowperson that’s silly, fancy, sporty, or magical is a great way to build confidence. Add accessories like earmuffs, snowflakes, or pets to increase the challenge or fun factor. Use this snowman making activity in your next therapy plan, snow day learning schedule, or as part of your winter fine motor activities. It’s a no-prep, no-mess way to bring the magic of winter indoors while building essential skills.
Build a snowman activity
I love this slide deck for many reasons. One is that it’s a cute building a snowman activity that kids will love doing. It’s fun to move the pieces on the slide deck and can be a break from the normal virtual lessons or teletherapy.
Therapeutically, this snowman activity can help kids with several skill areas:
- Eye-hand coordination
- Visual scanning
- Spatial relations
- Size awareness
- Handwriting
- Typing
- Visual memory
Kids can visually scan the slide to actually build the snowman using different sized snowballs. They can arrange the snowballs to make the snowman.
Then, users can scan the slide to find various pieces for the snowman. Depending on your goals for the child, they can independently build the snowman and decorate their snowman. Other students can be given verbal directions for scanning for eyes, carrot noses, arms, or other individual pieces. The items are scattered around the slide to challenge visual perceptual skills such as visual memory and visual attention.
NOTE– When you access the slide, you are prompted to make a copy onto your Google drive. Once you make that copy, it is yours to edit to meet the needs of your students. You can remove some of the items or make duplicates of some snowman decorations, depending on the needs of your client or student.
Once students are happy with their snowman creation, they can go to the next slide. There, they can type or write details about their snowman. This can challenge visual memory skills and be a great practice for handwriting or typing skills.
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