These snowman riddles take him apart piece by piece: the carrot, the coal, the scarf, the three snowballs. Then come the jokes, the counting riddles and the riddles about the day he melts.
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Four kinds of snowman riddle
The menu under the button keeps one set. What am I riddles are answered by a part of a snowman or something around him, and one by the snowman himself. Snowman jokes end in a pun, explained after the answer. Build it and count it asks for a number and shows the steps. Melting is about what he turns into.
How to play on a snow day
Read a riddle aloud and let everyone guess. Show answer opens the answer and one line that says why it fits. The main button deals five more.
Tips
Before building one outside, give each child a what-am-I riddle: the answer is the part they fetch.
Print gives the riddles on show with a line under each, and the answers on a page of their own.
Questions and answers
What is a riddle with the answer snowman?
Try this one: I am born on a cold afternoon and made by children's hands. My body is three parts tall, and I never take one step. What am I? A snowman.
What are some funny snowman riddles for kids?
Three from the jokes set. Where does a careful snowman save his nickels and dimes? In a snowbank. How does one snowman say hello to another? Ice to meet you. Where does a snowman go to dance? To a snowball.
Are there snowman riddles with math in them?
Yes, the set Build it and count it. Each is a small problem about building a snowman, in snowballs, buttons, mittens, carrots and more: adding, taking away, multiplying or sharing. The steps are written under the answer.
What is the riddle about the hat, the carrot and the coal on the lawn?
A hat, a scarf, a carrot, two lumps of coal and two sticks lie in a wet patch of grass, and nobody dropped them. What happened? A snowman melted, and everything he wore stayed where it fell.
I am a curved line of little stones under a carrot. I smile all day, and I never say a word. What am I?Answer: A snowman's mouth. Pebbles set in a curve make the smile.
I am all a snowman is really made of. Wet and sticky, I pack well. Dry and powdery, I fall apart in your hands. What am I?Answer: Snow. Snow packs best when it is close to melting and a little damp; dry powder will not stick to itself.
I am born on a cold afternoon and made by children's hands. My body is three parts tall, and I never take one step. What am I?Answer: A snowman. Three stacked snowballs, built in an afternoon, and no legs to walk on.
I am knitted and long, and I am tied where a snowman's head meets his middle. I do not keep him warm, and he is glad of that. What am I?Answer: A scarf. A snowman wears a scarf for looks: warmth is the last thing he wants.
I am tall, black and flat on top. I sit on the highest snowball, and a gust of wind is the only thing that takes me off. What am I?Answer: A top hat. A top hat is the tall black hat of the storybook snowman.
I am the biggest of three, and I never leave the ground. Two others sit on me, and nobody ever gives me a face. What am I?Answer: The bottom snowball. The largest ball is rolled first and carries the other two.
I am the smallest of three, and I sit the highest. The hat, the eyes and the nose are all mine. What am I?Answer: The snowman's head. The last and smallest ball goes on top and gets the face.
I grew under the ground, and now I point straight out from a face of snow. Up here I am a nose. What am I?Answer: A carrot. A carrot is a root, and it is the nose most snowmen get.
I lean in the crook of a snowman's arm. Indoors I sweep the floor, and out here I only pose. What am I?Answer: A broom. A broom is often propped against a snowman as his one tool.
I start small enough to sit in one glove. Push me across the yard, and I grow fatter with every turn. What am I?Answer: A snowball. A rolled snowball picks up more snow each time it turns over.
We are a pair, and we do all the rolling, patting and lifting. When the snowman is finished, we are soaked and he is dry. What are we?Answer: Mittens. The builder's mittens touch all the snow and end the day wet.
We are pressed into the snow all around a new snowman, and not one of us is his. He has no feet to make us. What are we?Answer: Footprints. The tracks around a snowman belong to the people who built him.
We are two black lumps that came out of the earth. On a snowman we sit side by side above the nose, and we never blink. What are we?Answer: Lumps of coal. Coal is dug from the ground, and two lumps make a snowman's eyes.
We fell from a tree, and now we stick out of a snowman's sides. Our fingers are little forks of wood. What are we?Answer: Stick arms. Two fallen branches make the arms, and their twigs look like fingers.
We run in a row down a snowman's front, but there is no coat for us to close. What are we?Answer: Buttons. The buttons on a snowman are pressed into the snow and fasten nothing.
Snowman jokes 15
A carrot keeps shoving in front of a snowman's eyes. What does the snowman shout at it?Answer: "Get out of my face!". The carrot is his nose, so it is in his face for good.
How does one snowman say hello to another?Answer: "Ice to meet you". (nice to meet you)
Two snowmen stand side by side in a yard. One sniffs and asks the other a question. What is it?Answer: "Can you smell carrots?". Each of them has a carrot stuck right under his eyes.
What do snowmen sing at a birthday party?Answer: "Freeze a jolly good fellow". (the old party song begins: For he's a jolly good fellow)
What do snowmen wear on their heads at the North Pole?Answer: Ice caps. (an ice cap is a sheet of ice, and a cap is a hat)
What do you get when a snowman puts on roller skates?Answer: A snowmobile. (mobile means able to move)
What does a hungry snowman ask for at the grill?Answer: An ice-berger. (iceberg, burger)
What does a snowman pile between two slices of bread?Answer: Cold cuts. (cold cuts are sliced lunch meats)
What happened when the snowman lost his temper?Answer: He had a meltdown. (a meltdown is a burst of temper, and melting is what snowmen do)
What is the name for a snowman who tells tall tales nobody believes?Answer: A snow-fake. (snowflake)
Where does a careful snowman save his nickels and dimes?Answer: In a snowbank. (a snowbank is a pile of snow, and a bank holds money)
Where does a snowman go to dance?Answer: To a snowball. (a ball is a grand dance)
Which chasing game are little snowmen best at?Answer: Freeze tag. (in freeze tag, a tagged player has to stand frozen)
Which classroom activity do little snowmen wait for all week?Answer: Snow and tell. (show and tell)
Which relative does a snowman visit at the bottom of the world?Answer: Aunt Arctica. (Antarctica)
Build it and count it 10
A snowman has 2 coal eyes, 5 coal buttons and a smile made of 6 more lumps. How many lumps of coal is he wearing?Answer: 13 lumps. 2 + 5 + 6 = 13.
A snowman's bottom ball is 3 feet high, his middle ball 2 feet and his head 1 foot. How tall is he before the hat goes on?Answer: 6 feet. 3 + 2 + 1 = 6.
Every snowman on our street is made of 3 snowballs, and there are 4 snowmen. How many snowballs did the street roll?Answer: 12 snowballs. 4 x 3 = 12.
I am the number of snowballs in a snowman, times the number of eyes on his face, plus his one carrot nose. What number am I?Answer: 7. 3 x 2 = 6, and 6 + 1 = 7.
Mia has 10 buttons and gives every snowman 3. How many snowmen get a full set, and how many buttons are left over?Answer: 3 snowmen, with 1 button left. 3 x 3 = 9, and 10 - 9 = 1.
Sam needs 5 minutes to roll one snowball. How long does he roll to make two snowmen of three snowballs each?Answer: 30 minutes. 2 x 3 = 6 snowballs, and 6 x 5 = 30.
There are 12 carrots in the bag, and every snowman needs one nose. A rabbit takes 4 carrots before anyone looks. How many snowmen can still get a nose?Answer: 8 snowmen. 12 - 4 = 8.
Three children build one snowman, and every child wears two mittens. One mitten is left on the snowman's stick hand. How many mittens go home?Answer: 5 mittens. 3 x 2 = 6, and 6 - 1 = 5.
Three snowmen stand in a row: one with 5 buttons, one with 4 and one with 3. The wind takes 2 buttons from each. How many buttons are left?Answer: 6 buttons. 5 + 4 + 3 = 12, and 12 - 6 = 6.
Two snowmen stand in a yard. Each has 2 stick arms, and each arm ends in 3 twig fingers. How many twig fingers are in the yard?Answer: 12 twig fingers. 2 x 2 = 4 arms, and 4 x 3 = 12.
Melting 10
A hat, a scarf, a carrot, two lumps of coal and two sticks lie in a wet patch of grass. Nobody dropped them, and nobody threw them away. What happened here?Answer: A snowman melted. Everything he wore stayed where it fell when the snow went.
A snowman melts for a week. Which of his three snowballs is the first to reach the ground?Answer: The bottom one. It has been on the ground since the day it was rolled.
I am a four-letter word for the days when winter lets go. Gutters drip, ice cracks and snowmen start to lean. What am I?Answer: A thaw. T-H-A-W: the melting that follows a freeze.
I am a season, and no snowman built in December ever stays to meet me. By the time my flowers open, he is gone. What am I?Answer: Spring. The thaw comes before the spring flowers.
I am inside every snowman from the start, though you cannot pour me yet. Wait for a warm day, and I am all that is left of him. What am I?Answer: Water. Snow is frozen water, so a melted snowman is water again.
I am the one place in the house where a snowman could spend the summer. I hum all day, and my door would stay shut on him. What am I?Answer: The freezer. A freezer stays below the point where snow melts.
I lie on the north side of the house, where the sun never reaches. A snowman built in me outlasts his brother on the open lawn. What am I?Answer: The shade. Snow out of the sun melts more slowly.
I never touch the snowman, and I am millions of miles away. Yet I am the one who takes him apart, a drip at a time. What am I?Answer: The sun. Sunshine warms the snow until it melts.
I wait by the hedge all winter for the snowman to melt, because his nose will be my dinner. Who am I?Answer: A rabbit. The carrot falls to the grass when the head melts.
When I go up, the snowman goes down. A thin red line on the porch shows how high I am. What am I?Answer: The temperature. The line is in a thermometer, and warmer air melts snow.
How this list was compiled
Written by the Game Night Generator editors on October 3, 2026: 50 riddles about one subject, the snowman, in four sets. What am I takes him apart piece by piece (the carrot, the coal, the scarf, the hat, the stick arms and the three snowballs) and adds a few things around him: the builder's mittens, a broom, the snow and the footprints. Snowman jokes are question-and-pun groaners; most have gone around playgrounds for generations and belong to nobody, and each is retold here in the editors' words, with the play on words explained after the answer. Build it and count it holds ten small number riddles, each recomputed by the editors on the day it was written, with the steps shown under the answer. Melting is about what the snowman turns into and what he leaves on the lawn. None was copied from a book or a site, and jokes that another list of this site or of our sister site already tells were left out. What a snowman is usually built from (three snowballs, a carrot, coal or stones, sticks, a hat and a scarf) and how well wet and dry snow pack follow the English Wikipedia article Snowman as it read on October 3, 2026 (en.wikipedia.org; text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, restated in our words). No snowman from a film, a song or a book is named. Licence: own work