Make a Snow Word List

Everyone has heard the saying that there are fifty words for snow or frozen water. Make a list of as many as you can think of.

Now see how many more words there are at these sites.

Write your Story

Write a story about snow or ice using some of the words you just listed. Here’s some prompts where you can use words for frozen water. It can be true, fiction but based on something that happened or complete fiction. Poetry is fine.

• Someone is learning to skate in a rink or on a wilderness pond
• There was a monster snowstorm and the house doors are snowed in.
• First sentence: Suddenly the snowman in my yard started to move.
• My new puppy ran out the door and saw snow for the first time.
• First sentence: While walking in a forest, I broke through a pond’s frozen surface.

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