Support your students in their understanding of cause and effect in this adorable hands-on melting snowman activity!

This task will provide students with the opportunity to experience the relationship between cause and effect in a hands-on way as they make their own melting snowmen. Following a simple procedure, students will make ‘snow’ from easy-to-find ingredients. Using their ‘snow’, they will build a snowman that can be melted with a few tablespoons of water. In addition, we have included an optional melting snowmen cookie recipe that can be completed as a fun follow-up activity!

This resource includes:

1. Detailed Instructions
2. Observation Worksheets
3. Optional: Melting Snowman Cookie Recipe.

In addition to the printable resource, to complete the melting snowman activity, you will need baking soda, liquid soap, water, bowls, spoons and trays. To complete the optional melting snowman cookies, you will need biscuits or cookies, icing, marshmallows, and edible decorations, such as chocolate candies, jelly beans and pretzel sticks.

It is time to melt some snowmen!