Three snowman drawings, one to a sheet. A snowman in a top hat with a patterned band, a bolder one in a knitted bobble hat, and a pair with a big snowman on the left and a small one standing beside him. All three have twig arms, a carrot nose, a coal smile and a scarf with a tail hanging down one side.
The three drawings
The top hat version has the most in it. A hatband line with a row of two to four small motifs across the crown above it, two short creases on the carrot nose, five coals curved into a smile, and a scarf tail with fringe at the bottom. It takes a seven year old a sensible twenty minutes.
The bobble hat version is the same snowman with the fussy parts taken out. The hat is a knitted crown with a turn-up band and a bobble on top, the nose is one clean triangle with no creases in it, and the whole thing is built from larger pieces. It is the one to print for a nursery.
The third sheet puts two snowmen on one ground line: a large one in a bobble hat and a plainer one in a top hat about half his height. Two figures at two sizes on one page is a better sheet for two children sharing than two separate sheets are.
Redraw changes the small parts
Every snowman gets two to four buttons, all the same shape, picked from a circle, a five pointed star, a diamond and a hexagon. The scarf tail gets two to four lines of fringe and sometimes a stripe or two across it, and the top hat gets its own row of motifs. Press Redraw and all of that is drawn again from new numbers, so a class of thirty ends up with thirty snowmen that are not quite the same.
A snowman sheet is not a Christmas sheet
There is nothing on any of the three that ties them to December. No tree, no presents, no holly. A snowman is the subject an infant class comes back to every time it snows, which in most of Britain means January or February rather than Christmas week, and the sheet is drawn so it carries no seasonal baggage either way.
Questions
- How many snowman colouring pages are there?
- Three drawings: a snowman in a top hat, a bolder one in a bobble hat, and a sheet with a big snowman and a little one on it. Each prints at three line weights on A4 or US Letter.
- Which snowman is best for a toddler?
- The bobble hat version with the line weight set to Chunky. The body, the head and the hat are all large rounded shapes, and the thickest outline widens the gaps between them.
- Do the buttons change if I print two copies?
- They do if you press Redraw between them. Each snowman gets two to four buttons of one shape, taken from a circle, a star, a diamond and a hexagon, and the hat band is drawn again as well.
- Can I use a snowman sheet after Christmas?
- Yes. None of the three drawings has a tree, a present or anything else that ties it to December, so they suit a snowy week in January or February just as well.
- Are the snowman colouring pages free to print?
- Yes, all three, with no account to make and no watermark. Home, classroom, nursery and library printing is allowed with no limit on the number of copies.