Snowman Family In A Snowy Backyard Coloring Page

Three snowmen of decreasing size stand together in a garden, each with coal eyes, a carrot nose and a row of buttons, and the tallest wearing a top hat and scarf while the smallest has a knitted cap. Stick arms reach out, and a house with a fence sits behind them. The shapes are round, large and simple, which makes this a reliable page for quite young children, from about three or four upward.

Snowmen are almost entirely white, so all the interest lives in the accessories. Let your child go bright and mismatched on the hats, scarves and buttons, since nothing about a snowman family has to coordinate. A pale blue shadow pooled on the ground to one side of each snowman is the single touch that stops them floating on the page.

Here is why snow is so blindingly white on a sunny day. Fresh snow reflects most of the sunlight that falls on it, up to around nine tenths, while dark ground absorbs nearly all of it. That is also why snow lingers longest where it is thickest and cleanest.