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Color By Code Snowflake Coloring Pages

January 13, 2023 By Deirdre

Your children will learn about coding and algorithm as they follow the steps displayed on these color by code snowflake coloring pages. There are two styles of coloring pages available in the set. First, there are two pages that have to colors selected for you. The second set leaves choosing the colors up to your children. Despite the fact children can use the colors, you may feel you need to give some color tips. Without color tips you may end up with snowflakes that are dark black or brown. If that okay with you, then you can just skip the tips.

Getting Color By Code Snowflake Coloring Pages

First, you will need to download the calendar.

Color By Code Snowflake Coloring Pages Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you will need to go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. If you are, you won’t have to hunt for it in your download file.

Finally, when you open the calendar you will find hyperlinked activities. When you click on them, you will be taken to the activity’s location on the web.

Deciding Which Color By Code Snowflakes Coloring Pages to Use

It was mentioned above that they are two types of pages. One with the colors selected and one that is open to your children color choice. The set also includes to different pictures. One picture has one snowflake on it. The other has four. Both pages have just about the just about the same number of sections and colors. It will be up to you as to which design you like best.

More Algorithm Coloring Pages

Apple Life Cycle Mandala

Decorating an Umbrella Based on an Algorithm

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Algorithm Page

Snowflake Feelings Patterning Worksheets for Kids

January 12, 2023 By Deirdre

This set of patterning worksheets has snowflake theme. This snowflakes displayed on these worksheet show different feelings. Before you start the worksheets, you may want to go of the feelings flashcards that come with the set. However you can start them without the review of feelings. It does mean that you will need to have the students identify the feelings when they come up in the patterns. Noticing what feelings or facial looks are displayed will be necessary to continue or record the patterns on the patterning worksheets.

Getting Snowflake Feelings Patterning Worksheets

First, you will need to download the calendar.

Snowflake Feelings Patterning Worksheets for Kids Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Finally, when you open the calendar you will find hyperlinked activities. When you click on them, you will be taken to the activity’s location on the web.

Types of Patterning Worksheets in the Set

Find the Pattern– Children are asked to figure out the pattern. Then they will need to continue the pattern by placing a circle around the snowflake that would come next.
Discovering the Pattern– This time they are asked to draw the face that will come next. While the faces appear easy to replicate, you could ask them just to try to draw the mouths on the snowflakes.
Displaying the Pattern– Next, a page that focuses on creating the patterning displayed before each row of snowflakes. There is room to repeat the pattern twice on the line. Some children may benefit from you doing the first pattern in each row with them. Then they can do the second one on their own.
Creating the Pattern– Finally, there is a page that invites children to create their own patterns. While the page displays the snowflakes first, you could have children display their patterns and then color the s’mores in that pattern. It is really up to you.

Building Background

Below you will find some activities and books that focus on patterning.

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This patterning set invites children to create and replicate patterns with beads.

This pattern activity asks children to drill colored disks in a pattern on a board.

I See a Pattern Here is a wonderful book that talks about and displays patterns from our everyday world.

More Patterning Worksheets

Patterning S’mores

Patterning Fire Safety Worksheets (Available on my TPT shop.)

Snowflake Building Mats- Exploring Shapes

January 9, 2023 By Deirdre

This set of snowflake-building mats features snowflakes with a variety of shapes in their centers. Children are invited to identify the shapes. After identifying the shapes, children will need to build them

What can they identify about each shape?

Some of the questions below will be easier for children to answer than others. Children tend to like to at least hear new vocabulary or math terms. It will be up to you to decide if your children are too young for some of these questions and/or math terms.

What shape is it?
How many sides or edges does it have?
Can you tell what types of angles it has?
How many corners of vertices does it have?

Possible Snowflake Building Materials

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Craft Sticks
Bread Tags
Toothpicks with the Sharp End Removed
Keva Planks
Magnetic Building Sticks and Blocks
Playdough
Pipe cleaners
LEGO Bricks

Getting the Snowflake Building Mats

First, you will need to download the set.

Snowflake Building Mats Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open with a particular program. As I mentioned I use Acrobat Reader.

Laminating the Snowflake Building Mats

You can have your children work on the mats uncovered if you like. However, if you laminate the mats you can use them over and over again. Below you will find links for a laminator I recommend. There are also links for laminator pouches and a laminator.

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Scotch Brand PRO Thermal Laminator, Never Jam…$55.99~~$128.93~~ (11009)

Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, 200- Count-…$27.99~~$42.99~~ (22799)

More Building Activities

Build a Shape Fire Pit Mats

Building Cards with a Magic Theme

Woodland Animal Pattern Block Building Mats

Snowflake Worksheets and Activities

January 8, 2023 By Deirdre

Snowflake worksheets and activities are great to work on even if you live in a place that doesn’t see snow. A series of five flake-themed activities will be shared one day at a time starting January 9th both here and on 3 Dinosaurs. Please stop by each morning to get a free set to download. The collections feature math, coding, and STEM activities.

At the end of this post, you will find several other snow-themed activities. These are only a few activities available. Every day, more snowflake posts will be shared at the bottom of the new set of snowflake worksheets. After downloading the recent sets, you will want to check them out.

Building Background Before Starting an Activity

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You explore one of these snowman-themed activities or books before working on one or all of the sets. It will help children build a background in building snowmen.

Snowflake Science Activity Book explores activities that focus on ice crystals along with the elements of snowflakes.

This building set features building elements that look like snowflakes. They will be wonderful for building snowy structures all year round.

The There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow book is a great way to explore sequencing with your children. After picking up of the word sequence, they will want to join you as you repeat it.

Getting the Snowflake Worksheets and Activities

First, download each set when an active link has been placed under its picture below.

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open after downloading. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

Snowman Activities and Printables by Day

Monday

Children will have fun using various building materials displayed on snowflake building mats to explore shapes. Some of the shapes will be easy to replicate and others will be more challenging.

3 Dinosaurs is a set of addition fact flashcards with a snowflake theme.

Tuesday

The I Spy Snowflake Shapes snowflake worksheets invite children to collect and display data. Children can record their data with numerals or tally marks.

Free Mitten Rhyming Matching Activity is shared on 3 Dinosaurs. It focuses CVC words.

Wednesday

Drawing a Snowflake Based on an Algorithm is a set that displays drawing directions on Blockly Blocks. The worksheets combine coding and drawing on one page. There are pages with words only and words along with pictures.

3 Dinosaurs is sharing a Free Snowflake ABC Tracing Cards. I just love the snowflake character on each card.

Thursday

This set of snowflake worksheets explores feelings and patterns. It has several ways that patterns can be continued. The set also includes a set of feeling flashcards.

What a fun way to work on elapsed time! This set from 3 Dinosaurs will be great to explore this winter.

Friday

The final set of snowflake worksheets asks children to color all the sections of a picture with the same number and the same color. There are pages with assigned colors. Some pages ask children to select their colors. You can decide which pages are the best ones for your children.

3 Dinosaurs is sharing a free winter skip counting by 6 easy reader today.

More Snow-Themed Activities and Printables

Below you will find snowman-themed activities and printables that have already been shared on my blog.

How to Make Fake Snow Recipes Featuring Cornstarch Displayed on Blockly Blocks.

How to Make Snow with Cornstarch

Building Shapes STEM Snowman Activity for Kids

STEM Snowman Activity- Building Shapes

Do You Want to Build A Snowman Activity

Snowflake Craft- Snowflake Pizza

January 24, 2021 By Deirdre

This snowflake craft is supposed to look like a pizza. Your children will need to add the same ingredients or shapes to each of the slices. It is totally okay if those slices are not symmetrical. The snowflakes craft will look great whether the slices are symmetrical or not.

Snowflake Craft Supplies

You will need to follow to create the snowflake craft.

Sheets of Blue Construction Paper
Shapes Cut out of White and Blue Construction Paper or Sheets of White and Blue Paper Your Children Can Cut into Shapes
White Paper Plates Cut into Six Equal Pieces or Uncut Paper Plates
Scissors
Glue

Getting the Craft Ready

There are two different ways you can have your children put the craft together.

Option One- You Get Everything Ready

The paper plate pieces and constructions paper shapes can be cut and ready for your children to use. Each child will need six plate sections and several different shapes cut out of paper. If you want the shapes that are the same size and shape, you will need to fold a piece of paper into six sections before cutting the shape out.

Option Two- Children Get Materials Ready

The other option is for your children to cut the plates in the six equal pieces. Then they can cut out shapes out of the blue and white papers. If they are going to have the same shapes on each pizza slice, they are going to need six of each shape. They can get six shapes that are the same size and shape by folding a piece of paper into six sections before cutting them out.

Putting the Craft Together

The first step is to glue the six plate sections onto a piece of blue paper. The sections need to be arranged like pizza slices in a circle.

Next, they can start gluing shapes onto each slice. You can decide if you want them to include the same shapes on each slice or they can glue whatever shapes they want on each slice.

Finally, if you want them to have the same shapes on each slice, you could give them six pieces of the same shape and have them glue each of them on the slice. Then you could pass out another shape for them to glue. Older children will probably be able to handle being given a set of shapes to use for this craft rather than getting one shape at a time.

Hint: The white shapes are going to add dimension to the craft. The blue shapes will look like shape cutouts on the plate.

Before Starting You Might Want to Read a Book About Snowflakes

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Here are some more snow related activities:

Build a Snowman with Blocks Challenge

How to Make Snow with Cornstarch

STEM Snowman Activity- Building Shapes

Do You Want to Build A Snowman Activity

Graphing Practice Worksheet Collection- Snow Theme

January 5, 2017 By Deirdre

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I started the week by sharing a set of snowflake design printables that could be used to explore building snowflakes. Today I have a graphing practices worksheet collection for kids to share with you. It too has a snowflake theme. This set can be used as part of a graphing unit or as a book extension to do after reading a book like The Snowy Day.

Using the Graphing Practice Worksheet Collection

Creating a Graph

This collection can be used with a floor graph created on a large piece of cardboard or on the floor with tape. (We happened to have large cardboard box left over from a Christmas present delivery that worked out well for our graph.) painter’s tape was used to create the five column graph.

Painter’s tape was used to create the five column graph. (It is easy to move from cardboard and floors. We have used it a lot to create learning spaces.) We also put it on bottom and side edges on our graph to help define the graph’s boundaries.

Getting the Worksheet Pieces Ready

The graphing practice worksheets collection includes a spinner. You will also find a sheet filled with snowflakes of each design. There are five different snowflakes in the collection.

Creating the Spinner

You will need to print out the spinner pieces. Then you need to cut out each of the pieces. Finally, you will assemble the spinner.

Hint: We printed out our spinner pieces on printer paper and mounted them on card stock. If you want your set to be a little sturdier, you can print out your pieces on card stock.

Graphing Activity

There are probably many ways that you can use the graphing practice worksheet collection. I am going to share with you how we used it at my house.

All of the pieces were set on the floor. It was a nice day so, we took put the supplies on the floor of our deck. At the bottom of the graph, we placed one of each of the snowflake designs.

Then we took turns spinning the spinner. We placed a picture of the snowflake the spinner had landed on in the column above the snowflakes that matched it at the bottom of the graph.

After twelve spins, we decided to stop. You can spin the spinner as many times as you want.

Then we counted up the number of snowflakes in each column.

Finally, we search through our cookie cutters setto find the number that represented the number of snowflakes in each column.

If you like this graphing activity, you will probably enjoy these graphing activities.

Graphing Ocean Animals with LEGO

Creating a Valentine’s Day Graphing Space and Valentine’s Day Activity

Let’s Build Snowflake Designs with Printables

January 2, 2017 By Deirdre

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I remember my mom reading my sister’s and I the book The Snowy Day. The boy in the book seemed to enjoy doing the same things we did in the snow. If you haven’t read them the book, you will want to look for it at the library. After reading the book to or with them, I thought your children might want to explore snowflake designs.

Did you know that snowflakes have six points and/or six sides like a hexagon? Did you know that snowflake designs are symmetrical? As your children explore building snowflake designs of their own, you will may want to share these fun facts with them. (My son seemed to soak up words like hexagon and symmetry when he was little.)

Snowflake Designs

I have created three different outlines of snowflake designs and placed them in a PDF for you to use with your children. They can place a variety of objects on top of the designs to create fun snowflake designs or creations.

Snowflake Design One

Snowflake Design Two

Snowflake Design Three

Let me show you some of the snowflakes designs that we created with objects we found around our house.

Let's Build Snowflake Designs with Printables - It is fun to build snowflakes with items you probably have at home like lids and beads.

My son designed a snowflake with lids and beads.

Let's Build Snowflake Designs with Printables - It is fun to build snowflakes with items you probably have at home like sticks, beads and erasers.

This snowflake was built with erasers, sticks and beads.

Building Material List

Sticks (Popsicle sticks or sticks from a branch)
Bread tags
Erasers
Beads
Lids
Cotton Swabs
Buttons

If you like my activities based on The Snowy Day, I think you will like these activities based on the book too.

SNOW THEMED LITERACY ACTIVITIES

Snowflake Swat Letter Learning Game from Preschool Powol Packets
Snowball Sight Words on a Sticky Table from Views From a Step Stool
Snowy Day Inspired Alphabet Writing Tray from School Time Snippets
Icicle Prewriting Activity from Mama Smiles

SNOW THEMED SCIENCE ACTIVITIES

Easy Colorful Paper Towel Snowflakes from Toddler Approved
Why We Salt Roads Science Investigation from Rainy Day Mum
Melting Snowball Estimations from My Storytime Corner

SENSORY SNOW ACTIVITIES

Snow Tea Party from Teach Beside Me
Pre-Writing Sensory Tray from Growing Book by Book
Puffy Paint Snowman from Messy Little Monster
Indoor Snow Sensory Play from Mama Smiles

ACTIVE SNOW ACTIVITIES

Outdoor Snow Play Ideas for Kids from Mama Smiles

LEGO Snowflake Patterns Activity

January 8, 2016 By Deirdre

It is truly amazing that snowflakes have six sides. It is equally amazing that each snowflake is unique! It is equally true that if children create snowflake patterns with LEGOS each should have six sides. Each of those snowflakes should also be unique.

To insure that each snowflake would have six sides stuck some masking tape onto pieces of construction paper in an asterisk shape. The pieces of paper weren’t big. A set of four was created by cutting an eight by ten piece of construction paper into fourths. (You could make your snowflake pattern work space bigger. You could make the tape asterisk much bigger too.)

We used only white LEGOS to construct our snowflakes. It might have been fun to create snowflakes that were multicolored. It would also allow your kids to think creatively.

The plan was to create on snowflake section or arm. Then the design of that section would be replicated five times to fill in the snowflake pattern on the paper. That will give you a perfectly balanced and symmetrical snowflake.

It may not look perfectly symmetrical when it is done. The tape sections help you to keep it close to being symmetrical. We found that a brick or two might be a few centimeters off. Although we did try to set up each LEGO snowflake section in the same spot on the tape it was difficult to make it perfect.

An extension of this activity would be for one child to build a snowflake pattern and see if another child or their parent could replicate the snowflake pattern. Children would get to work on their visual discrimination skills as well as their eye hand coordination that way.

More LEGO Activities We Have Done

LEGO Reading Worksheets with Missing Color Words

Open and Closed Shapes- LEGO Polygons

LEGO Fraction Game

Bar Graph Made of LEGO

LEGO Pick and Move Building Game

If you like this snowflake patterns activity, you will find more learning activities with LEGO on my LEGO Learning Activities board.

Snowflake Patterns with Blocks

January 6, 2016 By Deirdre

It can be hard to know what design or shapes to cut into a snowflake. Wooden blocks are great for making snowflake patterns you can use to create a craft! Children just need to decide where they want to trace a shape on their snowflake.

We started by folding a piece of paper into a snowflake shape. The top corner of the paper is pulled down the opposite edge almost near the bottom of the paper. The strip at the bottom of the paper was cut off. The triangle shape was folded in half. We could have folded it over another time, but we wouldn’t have been able to trace the larger blocks.

Blocks were laid out on the snowflake paper to see what snowflake patterns could be made. It was much easier to try out different designs before we started to trace the shapes. Although we did use pencils to create our snowflake patterns.

Creating Snowflake Patterns

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Then it was time to start to trace the shapes. We used big chunky blocks that were easy to press down and trace around. That made tracing much easier. If you have tangrams or pattern blocks, you could use them instead. They might be a little harder to hold in place for younger children.

After we had traced all our shapes, it was time practice our scissor or cutting skills. Each shape needed to be carefully cut out. We found that some of the edges and corners disappeared when we cut out the shapes. They actually looked fine that way we decided.

With all the shapes cut out it was time to open up the paper and check out our snowflake pattern. I think the square and triangle shapes kind of made the snowflake look like a pattern found on a Native American blanket.