Snowman name graphing

Kindergarteners are working on graphing and reading graphs, learning consonants and vowels. So we used a marshmallow (let's be honest, you'll need two per kid ... one to paint with and one to eat) as a stamp to stamp a snowman with as many snowballs as we have in our name. I watered down a bit of white Tempra paint and gave each friend a sentence strip. I trimmed the sentence strips later. I modeled how to stack the snowballs. Some of the snowmen got hats, some got scarves just to jazz our graphic up a bit. Cuz that's how we roll in kindergarten.
The next day when this crew came to me for writing specials, the paint was dry and they used a Sharpie (trusting a 5 year old with a Sharpie is not for the faint of heart) to write the letters of their names on their snowman. THEN we graphed them ... names with four letters, five letters, six letters ... you get the drill.
Then each friend got a thought bubble and made observations. Some kids made observations about their name, some did other kids' names, some did general observations about the entire graphic.
Some of our observations included "The kids in our class with nine letters in their name are both girls." "My name begins and ends with a consonant." The little gal Rosa who came up with "my name is an A B pattern (consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel) ... too scared of her.