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The whole sentence is:

> 子どもたちは小さな雪だるまを作って、楽し **そうに** 遊んでいました。

What is the role of そうに in this sentence?
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What is the role of the そうに?
楽しい is an い-adjective meaning "fun". In Japanese, there's nothing wrong with
saying "I'm having fun." But generally you're not going to presume to know the
psychological state of someone else.

楽しそう is formed by dropping い and adding そう, forming a な-type adjective
meaning, "appearing to be having fun".

So the sentence

> 子どもたちは小さな雪だるまを作って、楽しそうに遊んでいました。

could be translated as "The children were having fun playing and making small
snowmen." Though with such a short snippet of a sentence, the feeling I get is
that you could just render it simply as "The kids were having fun making
snowmen."
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