Lily and the snowman

Lily builds a snowman and they share some great times, he comes to live and tells her stories.  Will their friendship endure as the years pass? (Warning:  a tear jerker!) 

Lily builds a snowman, when the light shines from the house onto him he comes alive.  The Snowman uses the lights to create images to tell stories to Lily.  
Lily's imagination allows her to bring the stories to life. 
As the weather warms Lily places the snowman in the freezer bringing him out each year to go on new adventures.  But soon Lily has other things to think about. 

Teaching ideas

• Create instructions - How to build a snow man. 
• Carol Allen (@caroljallen)  suggests that making shadow puppets can develop gross and fine motor skills. 
• Children can describe the setting. 
• Discuss how the snow man feels each time Lily opens the door. 
• Write a narrative from the point of The Snowman for each scene. 
• Create a flash back for Lily at the point she sees the desk lamp shining the snowman onto the wall. 
• Predict what will happen when she sees this in her office. 
• Write the dialogue between Lily and her daughter as she tells her about the snowman. 
• Write a letter from Lily to her pen friend telling them all about the Snowman. 
• Create a description of somewhere in winter and the same place in summer. 

As with all the films on The Literacy Shed this is not an exhaustive list.