It’s winter! Time for snowflake decorations, snow study, and snow days! Whether or not an actual winter storm is headed your way, use these free snowflake printables to inspire writing, science, and more. The snowflake printable bundle is flexible and can be used long after the last flake melts.
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Large Snowflake Printable
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Make snowflake portraits. Have students bring in a picture of themselves playing in the snow, or take photos of students in their winter gear. Then, paste each student’s photo into the center of a snowflake. Students can decorate or add a paragraph about what they were doing in the photo.
Create a “Unique as Snowflakes” bulletin board. Provide each student with a snowflake to cut out and decorate. Then, students write a unique fact about themselves on their snowflake. Use the snowflakes to decorate your classroom door or bulletin board with the heading: We are as unique as snowflakes.
Medium Snowflake Printable
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Study snowflake symmetry. Students use these medium snowflakes to show how each snowflake is symmetrical. Then, they can make their own symmetrical snowflakes.
Contrast painting: Cut out and place the snowflakes onto paper. Paint over the snowflakes. When the paint dries, pull off the snowflake to reveal a white original snowflake.
Study snowflake crystals. If you have snow, look at it under a magnifying glass or microscope. Then, use these snowflake printables, salt, and glue to create a snowflake that has the same crystal properties.
Small Snowflake Printable
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Decorate a winter alphabet: Cut out these small snowflakes and provide students with large letters. Students glue the snowflake onto the letters to create a winter alphabet.
Create resist art snowflakes. Cut out these snowflakes, then use a hot-glue gun to trace the snowflakes to get a template. Use liquid watercolors and paint the snowflakes, then sprinkle salt over the paint to get the full effect.
Snowflake math. Use these snowflakes as manipulatives in math problems that involve snowflakes. Students can use them to show how many snowflakes there are when seven of one kind and eight of another fall from the sky. Or how many are left if eight fall and four land on their tongue and melt.
Have students create a self-portrait and use these snowflakes to decorate their portrait. What would they look like as a snow queen? As a snowman? Just covered in snowflakes?
Use this snowflake writing paper to engage students in writing about winter topics, like:
What is your favorite thing to do when it snows?
How would you spend a snow day?
What can you only do when it is snowing?
Imagine that you are explaining snow to someone who has never experienced it. How would you describe it?
If you live in a warm area, what might happen if you wake up one day and see snow all over the ground?
Students can research an animal that lives in the snow, like the arctic fox or polar bear, and write a paragraph describing the animal and how it is adapted to live in the snow.
Snowflakes in Various Sizes
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Make 3D snowflakes. Cut out these snowflakes and use the cut-outs to create 3D snowflakes that you can put on a bulletin board or decorate your classroom with.
Sort snowflakes. Provide students with scissors and encourage them to cut these snowflakes, then sort them by size or other characteristics.
Build snowflake trees. Students cut out these snowflakes, then place them on dowels or small branches to create snowflake trees with the largest snowflakes on the bottom and the top.