Snowball Names Fine Motor Literacy Activity

Add the snowball names literacy activity to your collection of winter activities for preschoolers!

Be sure to check out Sugar Aunts’ fine motor snowmen. It looks like a ton of fun for the kiddos! Plus, it had glitter. While I love our snowball names, there was no glitter involved. Yet. 🙂

Related: Preschool Winter Crafts

snowball names is a fun, easy-to-set-up literacy activity

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Materials
Black and dark blue construction paper (I liked the dark blue the best)
White hole reinforcement stickers

Set-Up
As promised, this is an easy-to-set-up literacy activity! Write each child’s name on a piece of construction paper. I liked the blue paper the best, but the black paper made for a nice contrast too. Grab some hole reinforcement stickers.

Related: Snowball Winter Activities for Kids

What the kids did
In the two seconds it took me to set everything out, I was swarmed with children. I love their enthusiasm! When asked what I was doing, I said, “I thought we could make our names out of snowballs!” This brought some giggles, and the children dove in.

Their little fingers got serious workouts with this literacy activity! Having to carefully remove the stickers, then oh-so-gently place the stickers on the letters took some serious fine motor control. I was amazed at how detail-oriented and attentive the children were throughout this activity!

Keep in mind, those stickers go quickly! We went through 4 or 5 packs, and I still have a couple of kiddos who need to finish their names (they were out sick).

The learning
Here’s some of the important early learning concepts we touched on while making “Snowball Names” –

• Fine motor skills, of course!
• Word recognition – reading their names, as well as their friends’ names
• Appropriate letter formation
• Print concepts – we write and read from left to write
• Alphabet identification
• Letter sounds

So much learning with such an easy-peasy literacy activity. Now I just need to get our snowball names up in the classroom. I’m sure the kiddos already have a place in mind!

Preschool Snow Lesson Plans

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 learning activities related to the theme.

This set includes active hands-on learning ideas, book suggestions, and the following printables:

• Snowflake Roll and Color Graphing
• 2 Sets of Snowflake Number Cards for 0-35
• Snowflake Beginning Sounds Activity for Sounds /s/, /t/, and /m/
• Upper- and Lowercase Snowflake Letter Matching Puzzles
• Snowflake Patterning and Sorting Cards
• Count the Snowflakes Emergent Math Reader for Numbers 1 to 5
• Count the Snowflakes Emergent Math Reader for Numbers 1 to 10

Get your snowflake lesson plans at Preschool Teacher 101 or Teachers Pay Teachers