Get ready for a night of family fun this holiday season! This roll a snowman dice game can’t get any easier to prepare and play. 
Does your family enjoy game nights as much as mine does? We’ve played this dice game over the years in my home mostly on a whim because there is no planning needed! Roll a die, add the corresponding snowman piece to the snowman’s body and the first person to build their snowman wins! It’s great for kids and adults of all ages- my young kids love it, but you could also have your teenage children play it to see who gets out of doing the dishes after dinner- get creative!
Snowman Dice Game
MATERIALS:
- 1 die
- 1 printable game piece per person (download here)
- scissors
- envelope or ziploc bag to keep your pieces in to use again
DIRECTIONS:
- First, print off a snowman printable for each player. Cut out all the accessories and set to the side.
- The game starts with the youngest person and will continue clockwise. Roll the die and collect the accessory for the number you roll. Place that piece on the body of your snowman.
- If you roll a number for a part you already have, play passes to the next player.
- The first person to have all their accessories on their snowman wins!
- When you are finished, place all the pieces in a bag or envelope and save it until the next time you’re ready to play!
VARIATIONS:
If you don’t want to print and cut out the above printable, just give each player a pencil and paper and have them draw the snowman parts as they roll the various numbers.
MY LATEST VIDEOSOur family loves to play this game after dinner – looser gets to do dishes! 😉
Planning a road trip? Grab a cookie tray or a large lid, and help pass some of the time away!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SNOWMAN PDF!!!
I hope you all have fun with your family this holiday season!
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(This snowman dice game originally published on Somewhat Simple in 2011 and was updated with a waaaayyyy cuter printable in 2017. An older version was featured as a guest post on See Vanessa Craft.)
That’s such a cute idea! My boys are gonna love it. Thanks for sharing!
Love it! Thanks for the printable too!
this is adorable!! love it and so will my girls! thanks for the printables but it’s great how you could draw it out too. i’ll have to remember to throw a dice in my bag for when we’re at the dr’s or a restaurant. so cute!!
We are totally going to do this! Maybe for FHE tonight
I used this game today for my daughter’s winter party. They kids had a blast. Thank you for sharing.
I used this game today for my daughter’s winter party. The kids had a blast. Thank you for sharing.
Such a cute idea, and I’m so glad you shared it! I use the game as a basis for our preschool snack this week. Instead of using the paper cut out snowman, we used powdered donuts, pretzels, candy corn and such to build our snowmen. It was a perfect activity for 6 little ones learning about the letter S. Thank you!
I love the idea of rolling for the snowman, I would like to adapt your idea for my music classes. Instead of rolling a die with numbers, I’d like for them to roll a die with note values to complete the snowman. I will only be using this for educational purposes and will give you full credit and link back to your blog post. I create my lessons in SMART Notebook for the IWB SMART Board and once I create the lesson, I’d like to post the lesson on my blog. The children will come to the SMARTBoard to roll the note value and complete the snowman at the SMARTBoard.
sincerely,
Cherie Herring
I am writing a round up post about Christmas games for families. I was wondering if I could use your photo with your website name and post title with proper link back to your site?
Thanks,
Lauren
Absolutely! Thanks for asking!
Thaks so much, I was looking for a wonderful gift game to give families this Christmas.
What an awesome and cute game idea! I need to do this with my boys. Thanks for sharing at our link party!