Snowman Movement Book & Cards | Winter Brain Break Gross Motor | SLP SPED OT APE

This Snowman Movement Book and Movement Cards get your students moving, regulating, and learning through fun winter-themed gross motor activities. Students wiggle, stretch, point, and bounce like a snowman while building gross motor skills, motor planning, following directions, imitation, and attention. Use it during circle time, as a brain break, transition activity, or any time you need to get the "wiggles" out.

⛄ Perfect for:

• Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting following directions, imitation, and movement-based language goals
• Occupational Therapists working on gross motor, motor planning, sensory regulation, and imitation
• Adapted Physical Education (APE) teachers integrating movement with language and following directions
• Special Education teachers building winter brain break and movement routines
• Autism classrooms working on imitation, motor planning, and sensory regulation
• ABA therapists running discrete trial imitation and following directions programs
• Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers
• Music Therapists building movement-based language sessions
• Homeschool families with active learners

❄️ What's Included:

• 1 Snowman Movement Book (rhyming text with movement prompts)
• A set of standalone Movement Cards for flexible use
• Multiple winter-themed snowman movements (wiggle, stretch, point, bounce, and more)

🎯 Skills Targeted:

Gross motor skills (wiggling, stretching, pointing, bouncing, side-to-side movements), motor planning, imitation skills, following directions, sensory regulation and self-regulation, attention and focus, listening comprehension, body awareness, winter and snowman vocabulary, and sequencing.

Sample Text:

"I can wiggle like a snowman,

and swing my snow from side to side.

I can stretch like a snowman,

and reach my arms out really wide.

I can point like a snowman, a

s the snow falls from the sky. I

can bounce like a snowman,

on the snow that's piled up high."

How to Use:

The teacher or therapist reads through the book aloud while modeling each movement, and students imitate the actions. Use the standalone movement cards to let students choose their own movement, take turns leading the group, or build a movement sequence (do 3 cards in a row). Perfect for circle time, brain breaks, transitions, before/after a focused activity, or any time the group needs to move.

🌨️ Ways to Use:

• Brain breaks and movement breaks
• Circle time and morning meeting
• Transition activities (between centers or subjects)
• OT gross motor and motor planning sessions
• Adapted Physical Education (APE) lessons
• Speech therapy following-directions warm-ups
• ABA discrete trial imitation training
• Sensory regulation and self-regulation routines
• Winter and snowman thematic units
• Indoor recess activities
• Tele-therapy movement breaks

This movement book is also bundled with an Adapted Song Book so that you can have both music and movement. You can find that here:

If You're A Snowman Adapted Song Book

If your students enjoy music and movement, they may also enjoy my Adapted Song Books. You can see the complete bundle here:

Adapted Song Books Bundle

For more hands-on winter, snowman or Christmas themed activities, please see the links below:

Hands-On Winter Activities

Hands-On Snowmen Activities

Hands-On Christmas Activities