Build a Rhyming Snowman

The ability to identify and create rhyming words is such an important pre-reading skill. My 3.5 year old LOVES to rhyme. We’ve done rhyming with DUPLO blocks, fished for rhymes, rolled our rhymes and of course, just play with rhymes through songs, books, and various fingerplays. So this winter, we did a little rhyming with a build a rhyming snowman activity.

And today, I’m sharing our build a rhyming snowman pack, which is part of my Build a Snowman Phonics Pack. You’ll find the free download link towards the end of this post. Just click on the oval button.

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Build a Rhyming Snowman Prep Work

To prep the activity, I like to print the snowmen onto cardstock to make them less flimsy.

You can cut out the individual snowballs of the snowmen or you can cut them out on the straight lines to make puzzle-like snowmen. I pulled out my paper cutter, which decreased my prep time significantly. {The snowman you see above is one of the short o snowmen that my Kindergartner used from the Snowman Phonics Pack.}

If you have multiple children using the same snowmen or want to re-use them year after year, I highly suggest laminating them.

 

I also like to make the snowmen self-checking on the back so that kids can check their answers if I’m working with another child. It can be as simple as making matching shapes on the back. This works particularly for pre-readers. For some of the phonics snowmen, like these ending sound snowmen, I wrote the word on the back of the snowmen so my 1st grader could check his answers.

 

Build a Rhyming Snowman

For the rhyme time, I laid out all the snowman hats first and quickly sorted the snowballs into three groups: heads, medium snowball {for middle}, and large snowball {for bottom}. If you’re working with older kids, this step may not be necessary.

 

We named the object on each hat, then I gave her all the snowman heads. I said each pair like, “snake-bee; does that rhyme? three-bee; does that rhyme?”

 

We did the same with each snowball until she had all her snowman pieces matched. Finally, we went back and checked our work together to see if each snowman was a rhyming snowman.

 

As I mentioned above, my Kindergartner and 1st grader also used some of the other snowmen phonics activities from the pack. My daughter really enjoyed building the short a and short o vowel snowmen and was proud, that even after our Christmas break, she remembered those short vowel sounds. Our short vowel songs really paid off!

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~Becky