Free Printable Snowman Word Search

Carrot, coal, scarf and top hat hidden in one grid: a snowman word search printable with its answer key.

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Snowman Word Search

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0 of 16 words found

NYAATHTNFDBFKMZ

IMITTENSLNRBTRO

MTETGICKWSSSNSD

MXRSHSRVHAGNOSE

ZSNOWFLAKEYOHUD

HFITHREEUXUWALV

FSMTSSLANMMBOIO

DCBYNQRMREEADXN

CARROTPCDLELNLU

NROUWWEXDTCLLWK

PFOSMILECOEDPGI

TFMRAGGMRPSTACK

TTTENENNYHDMFEA

RNENNHYCOALNVYN

ZIATMVBUTTONSEY

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CarrotCARROT
CoalCOAL
ButtonsBUTTONS
ScarfSCARF
Top HatTOP HAT
TwigTWIG
MittensMITTENS
BroomBROOM
NoseNOSE
SmileSMILE
SnowballSNOWBALL
StackSTACK
ThreeTHREE
SnowmanSNOWMAN
SnowflakeSNOWFLAKE
MeltMELT

16 of 22 words from the Snowman Favorites list.

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Answer key: Snowman Word Search

NYAATHTNFDBFKMZ

IMITTENSLNRBTRO

MTETGICKWSSSNSD

MXRSHSRVHAGNOSE

ZSNOWFLAKEYOHUD

HFITHREEUXUWALV

FSMTSSLANMMBOIO

DCBYNQRMREEADXN

CARROTPCDLELNLU

NROUWWEXDTCLLWK

PFOSMILECOEDPGI

TFMRAGGMRPSTACK

TTTENENNYHDMFEA

RNENNHYCOALNVYN

ZIATMVBUTTONSEY

CARROT, COAL, BUTTONS, SCARF, TOP HAT, TWIG, MITTENS, BROOM, NOSE, SMILE, SNOWBALL, STACK, THREE, SNOWMAN, SNOWFLAKE, MELT

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All 116 words

Snowman Parts 23

Arms Two sticks pushed into the middle ball make these.
Branch A woody arm of a tree. A forked one makes an arm with fingers.
Broom A sweeping tool with a long handle. Some snowmen hold one.
Bucket A pail. Turned upside down, it makes a hat.
Buttons Round fasteners down the front of a coat. A row of stones gives a snowman a set.
Carrot The orange vegetable that makes the classic nose.
Coal Black lumps that make the eyes, or a row down the front.
Earmuffs Two soft pads on a band that keep the ears warm.
Eyes Two stones or two lumps of coal make these.
Face The front of the head, where the features go.
Gloves Hand covers with a space for every finger.
Head The smallest snowball, set on top.
Mittens Hand warmers with one space for the thumb. A pair goes on the ends of the stick arms.
Mouth The part of the face under the nose.
Necktie A strip of cloth knotted under a collar, for a snowman who dresses up.
Nose The part of the face a carrot stands in for.
Pebbles Small smooth stones, good for a mouth.
Raisins Dried grapes. On a mini snowman they can be the eyes.
Scarf A long strip of cloth wrapped around the neck.
Smile A curved row of stones turns into this happy look.
Top Hat Tall, with a flat crown, and traditionally made of black silk. The classic thing for a snowman to wear.
Torso The trunk of a body. On a three-ball snowman it is the middle ball.
Twig A thin little stick from a tree. Two of them make arms for a mini snowman.

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How to Build a Snowman 26

Afternoon A good time to build is the next warm one after a snowfall.
Balance What a tall figure needs so that it stays up and does not topple.
Bottom The lowest place, where the biggest ball goes.
Decorate To add the face, the scarf and the hat at the end.
Giant Much bigger than usual.
Grass A rolling snowball picks up bits of this once it reaches the ground under the snow.
Heavy Hard to pick up, like a big ball of wet snow.
Lift To pick something up, as you must with the second ball.
Middle The place between the base and the head, where the second ball sits.
Moist A little bit wet. The best snow for packing is this, not dry.
Pack To press snow together hard with your hands.
Pat To tap gently with a flat hand.
Powder Dry, light snow. It will not stick to itself, so it makes a poor snowman.
Roll To push something round along so that it turns over and over.
Round Shaped like a ball or a circle.
Scoop To gather up a double handful.
Shape To press and form something with your hands, as a sculptor does.
Shovel A tool with a wide blade for piling up snow.
Smooth Even, with no bumps.
Snowball Packed snow in a round shape. Rolled along the ground, it grows by picking up more.
Sphere The math name for a perfect ball.
Stack To set one thing on top of another.
Sticky Able to cling together. Snow close to its melting point is like this.
Teamwork Working together, the way a big ball gets to the top.
Three The number of balls in a classic North American snowman.
Wobble To rock from side to side.

Snow Day Fun 24

Boots Tall waterproof shoes for deep snow.
Cheeks The soft sides of your face.
Closed What school is on a snow day.
Cocoa A hot chocolate drink for when you come back inside.
Crunch The sound of boots on cold snow.
Footprint The mark one boot leaves in the snow.
Friends People you like to play with.
Frost Thin white ice on grass and windows after a cold night.
Hill High ground with a slope to slide down.
Jacket A short warm coat.
Laugh The sound you make when something is funny.
Mound A rounded heap, such as snow piled up by a shovel.
Neighbor Someone who lives next door.
Outdoors Outside, in the open air.
Sled You ride it down a snowy hill.
Snowflake One ice crystal falling from a cloud. Many grow six arms.
Snowman A figure built from stacked balls of snow.
Sparkle To shine with tiny flashes of light.
Tongue Stick it out to catch a falling flake.
Tracks Marks left in snow by feet, paws or runners.
Tunnel A passage dug through a deep snowbank.
White The color snow looks, although the ice in it is clear.
Winter The coldest season of the year.
Yard The ground around a house, where many a snowman stands.

Melting Snowman 25

Crystal A solid with a regular pattern. Every snowflake is one, made of ice.
Degrees The units of temperature.
Drip To fall in drops.
Freeze To turn to ice. Water does it at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 0 Celsius.
Lean To tip to one side.
Liquid Matter that flows and takes the shape of its container.
Melt To turn from solid to liquid.
Puddle A small pool of water, all that is left in the end.
Rain Liquid water falling from clouds.
Shade A spot that direct sunlight does not reach.
Shrink To get smaller.
Slush Snow so wet that it no longer holds together.
Soggy Soaked and soft.
Solid Matter that keeps its own shape, like ice.
Spring The season after winter.
Sublimation A solid turning straight into gas with no liquid stage. Snow slowly shrinks this way, even in freezing air.
Sunshine Direct light from the Sun.
Temperature How hot or cold something is.
Thaw A spell of milder weather that softens ice and snow.
Trickle A thin, slow stream.
Vanish To disappear.
Vapor Water as an invisible gas in the air.
Warm A little hot.
Water What every snowman is made of, frozen.
Zero The freezing point of water on the Celsius scale.

Snowmen Around the World 18

Camera The tool a Welsh photographer used around 1853 for the earliest known snowman picture.
Grandma In some Slavic countries, a snow figure made of two balls is called a snow one of these.
Japan A country where snowmen usually have two parts, and people also shape rabbits from snow.
Kingdom In the United one, a snowman is usually built from two balls: a body and a head.
Library A place that keeps books and old pictures.
Maine The U.S. state where the record snow figure of 2008 was built, in the town of Bethel.
Photograph A picture made with a camera. The earliest known one of a snowman is from about 1853.
Rabbit In Japan people have long shaped this animal from snow. Its name there is yukiusagi.
Record The best ever measured. A snow figure 122 feet 1 inch tall set one in 2008.
Sculptor An artist who carves or shapes figures. In 1494 the famous one named Michelangelo was asked to make a snowman.
Sculpture Art made by shaping a material. A snowman is one made of snow.
Smallest Tiniest of all. In 2016 a lab built a snowman shape from three balls about a thousandth of a millimeter wide.
Snowwoman A snow figure of a woman. The record-setting giant of 2008 was one.
Symbol A sign that stands for something. Computers have a snowman one that is typed like a letter.
Tallest Highest of all. The giant snow figure built in 2008 took this title.
Tradition Something people do year after year.
Wales The earliest known photograph of a snowman, from about 1853, was taken by a photographer from this country.
Yukidaruma The Japanese name for a snowman. It usually has two parts, not three.

How this list was compiled: 116 snowman words with plain clues written for this site, in five lists: the parts of a snowman, how to build one, a snow day, melting, and snowmen around the world. The facts in the clues were checked on 2026-10-09 against English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dillwyn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation. Licence: own work

How it works

This free printable snowman word search opens on 16 build-a-snowman words, Twig, Mittens and Melt among them. It suits the first snow day, indoor recess, or the morning after the class has built one.

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Five lists, from the carrot to the puddle

Start from a list swaps the grid for one of five themes. Snowman Parts has 23 words, from Buttons to Earmuffs. How to Build a Snowman has the verbs of the job: Scoop, Pack, Roll, Lift, Stack, Decorate. Melting Snowman is a science list (Solid, Liquid, Vapor, Sublimation), and Snowmen Around the World has Yukidaruma, the Japanese word for a snowman.

For kindergarten or for fifth grade

Easy Snowman keeps to the 50 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Coal, Twig and Nose. For kindergarten, open More options and tick Large print. Hard Snowman holds the 19 longest, Photograph and Temperature among them. With Hard pressed they may run backwards.

Tick Show clues, not words in More options: pupils read "The smallest snowball, set on top" and find Head.
Early finishers can go on to the snowman color by number.

Questions and answers

What words are in a snowman word search?

The first grid hides 16 of 22 favorites, among them Carrot, Coal, Buttons, Scarf, Top Hat, Twig, Mittens, Broom, Snowball and Melt. New puzzle deals a different 16, and the five themed lists hold 116 words in all.

How many snowballs make a snowman?

Three in North America: a head, a torso and a base. In the United Kingdom and in Japan a snowman usually has two. Three, Torso, Kingdom and Yukidaruma are all words in the lists.

What kind of snow is best for building a snowman?

Moist snow close to its melting point, which packs and sticks. Dry powder will not hold together. A good time to build is the next warm afternoon after a snowfall. Moist, Sticky, Powder and Afternoon are on How to Build a Snowman.

Who built the first snowman?

Nobody knows. The earliest known photograph of one was taken about 1853 by a Welsh photographer, and Michelangelo was asked to make a snowman in 1494. Photograph, Wales and Sculptor are on Snowmen Around the World.

All 116 words

Snowman Parts 23

How to Build a Snowman 26

Snow Day Fun 24

Melting Snowman 25

Snowmen Around the World 18

How it works

Five lists, from the carrot to the puddle

For kindergarten or for fifth grade

Questions and answers

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