Winter Engineering Activity for Kids

How would you get the middle snowball in position on the tall snowman? This is an awesome winter kid challenge. I would love to say I gave them the challenge of how to raise a large snowball three feet off the ground, but that was their idea.

As I was watching the kids roll extra large snow balls with the superb packing snow we recently received, I wondered what they would do with it. The largest snowball was chest high measured on the kids. Well they decided to build a snowman.

I laughed at them from the comfort of my window as they tried to lift the large snowball which would soon form the middle section of the tall snowman and thought it would never happen. A few minutes later I was stunned and very impressed with what I saw.

She is standing on the the base of the second and third snowman that was built. But, before those structures became bases of snowman they were used as a ramp. The kids rolled the snowball up the ramp into place on the tall snowman.

Some people walking by stopped to give them a standing ovation. They had also seen the whole show.

Lifting the huge snowball was not the only engineering that went on. Although the mouths of the snowmen are difficult to see they involved a bit of science. The mouths were created by breaking open the berries on Chinese Lantern Flowers and using the juice to dye the snow.


I'm constantly amazed by what kids can do.