Snowman Counting Activity - Learning to Count

If your toddler or preschooler is learning how to count and recognise numbers then you are going to love doing this fun snowman counting activity with them. This hands-on counting activity involves using playdough and buttons to learn to count and recognise numbers to 5. This is a perfect counting activity to do indoors on a cold winter's day!

Snowman Counting Activity - Learning to Count

I made some white sparkly playdough by adapting this basic microwave recipe. I swapped half the flour for corn flour (corn starch) to make the playdough whiter and added some glitter after it had been in the microwave.

We cut out 5 big circles and 5 small circles from the playdough using biscuit cutters and made them into snowmen.

Then Harry (aged 3) got his number magnets from the fridge. He told me what each number was and then we put them in order together. We put one number under each snowman.

I gave Harry some buttons and told him he needed to look at the number below each snowman to find out how many buttons he would need.

 

Harry gave each snowman the correct number of buttons and then gave the snowmen some faces using buttons and some carrot noses which I made for our playdough snowmen (with free printable accessories)

Here are our completed Snowmen. Harry was really pleased with them and has asked several times if we can do this activity again. He surprised me with how well he did this activity. I think next time we will use numbers to 10!

Do you think you will give this fun snowman counting activity a go? It's a great counting activity for toddlers and preschoolers as it is fun and hands-on so they have no idea they are learning! Check out our other counting activities.