Use the back of a white paper plate as your snowman's face. Add buttons for the mouth and eyes. Googly eyes always do well for eyes instead of buttons if you'd like. As an alternative to the buttons for the mouth, you can use black construction paper to look like rocks or coal.  Add a "carrot" nose and a black hat from construction paper. 

Two paper plates make your snowman's body. Fill these paper plates in with cotton balls to add a cool snow effect. Then, use white construction paper to make a smaller ball for the snowman's head.  Add accessories like your carrot nose and eyes. Since you have a whole snowman body, you can also add stick arms or construction paper mittens!

This is a really fun craft where you can get very creative. Fold paper and whittle away at it. When you unfold the paper, you'll have created an elaborately patterned snowflake.

It's nice to always include a craft that doubles as a keepsake with which you can look on for years to come and say, "aww, look how small their hands were!" This craft fits that need for our winter crafts. Trace your kids' hands on black construction paper and cut them out. Add a white circle to the center of the hand. Then above the circle, at the edge of the palm, add an orange construction paper beak and 2 googly eyes. Sure your penguin has 3 legs...but no one is going to notice that because the end result is just too adorable.

Glue 7 or so Popsicle sticks side by side. Paint the bottom 2/3 of the sticks white and the top 1/3 black. On the white part, add dots for eyes and a mouth along with your carrot nose. Then, horizontally across the dividing point between the black and white paint, add another Popsicle stick painted all black. This last stick acts as the brim of the snowman's top hat.

Find a sky blue colored piece of construction paper and cut out a circle of it wider than the length of a Q-tip. Then, glue a Q-tip down the middle of the circle. Cut (or break) other Q-tips and add them diagonal and perpendicular to the first to make a full, rounded snowflake.

Ready for a craft that doubles as a tasty treat? Time for a marshmallow snowman. Pile 3 marshmallows on top of each other. Add pretzels sticks as arms and broken bits of chocolate for buttons. Lastly, find brightly colored candies to act as your blue eyes, red mouth, and orange nose.  Or, in lieu of bright candies, I don't think anyone would complain if the face was made out of chocolate too!

Now that you've eaten your marshmallow snowman snack, don't for get the birds that have a hard time finding food when there's snow on the ground A pine cone bird feeder is the perfect way to help them out while having fun making something with your kids at the same time. Spread peanut putter around on a pine cone, sprinkle bird seed onto the peanut butter, where it will stick. Then, hang your bird feeder where the birds can find it.

Spread popcorn out on a piece of paper and shape it into the figure of your snowman. Glue it down and draw on (or glue on) accessories.

Vanilla Snow Cream

Fill a big mixing  bowl full of fresh snow, add a can of sweetened condensed milk and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.

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Chocolate Snow Cream

Fill a big mixing  bowl full of fresh snow, add a can of sweetened condensed milk  and  add chocolate syrup or cocoa powder until it's chocolatey enough for you.