Winter Activities For Preschool Pack

Winter can be challenging because the kids are often forced to spend time indoors, but this icy season can be fun, too, with our Preschool Winter Activities! It’s a wonderful time for you to cozy up, bond, and enjoy some exciting, engaging, and educational activities together. That’s where our special Winter Activities Pack comes in! Read more for top teaching tips and a sneak peek into the perfect classroom resource packed with 17 activities and no-prep worksheets. These target fine motor, math, and literacy skills making it ideal for your January preschool themes.

Why Teach a Winter Theme

Snowman, snowballs, penguins, mittens, scarves and galore! These are items associated with winter, that’s for sure! The seasons are incredibly interesting. Helping children learn about the world around them and the environment helps provide a good basis for early childhood education. One of the ways in which you can do this is to help them learn about the changing seasons. Check out this post for more Ways Children can Learn about the Seasons.

Preschoolers learn best through hands-on activities and exploration of their world. This extends to the weather and seasons. The main reason for teaching kids a winter theme is because introducing a winter theme aligns with the natural environment and seasonal changes, making learning more relatable for preschoolers. It helps them connect classroom activities with what they observe and experience in their daily lives. You can expand on their understanding of the season and help them find associations.

You can turn it into full-blown lessons of the seasons and discuss how winter differs across different states! A winter theme allows educators to celebrate the diversity of the season. Whether it’s learning about winter in different parts of the world or exploring how various animals adapt to cold climates, preschoolers gain exposure to a wide range of experiences. It’s a great way to incorporate each child’s experience into fun and learning!

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Top Teaching Tips for Winter

Here are some top teaching tips to create a winter wonderland in your classroom:

• Incorporate Seasonal Vocabulary: Introduce and emphasize winter-themed vocabulary to expand children’s language skills. Include words related to snow, cold temperatures, winter clothing, and seasonal activities. Create word walls or labels to reinforce these terms visually.
• Engage in Sensory Play: Take advantage of the unique sensory experiences winter offers. Set up sensory bins with fake snow, provide opportunities for children to touch cold and warm objects, and incorporate winter scents like peppermint or cinnamon during activities.
• Create Winter Art Projects: Encourage creativity with winter-themed art projects. From making snowflake paintings to winter drawing activities, and even crafting snowmen out of different materials, art activities provide an avenue for self-expression and fine motor skill development.
• Explore Science Concepts: Explore age-appropriate science lessons about winter. Discuss the water cycle, states of matter, and why it snows. Conduct simple experiments, such as observing how ice melts or how warm breath turns into visible vapor in the cold.
• Read Winter Books: Integrate winter-themed books into your reading time. Choose stories that explore the magic of winter, snow, and winter holidays. Reading aloud helps develop literacy skills and captures children’s imaginations.
• Dress for the Weather: Teach children about the importance of dressing appropriately for the weather. Use the opportunity to reinforce self-help skills by having them put on their own coats, hats, and mittens. Discuss why certain clothing items keep us warm.

• Winter Math and Literacy Activities: Ready to get your students engaged in fun, hands-on learning this winter? Then look no further than our mega Winter Activities Pack for Kindergarten Math & Literacy Centers. Choose from an alphabet hunt, color and shape matching activities, playdough mats, sorting activities, no-prep worksheets and much more!

Winter Activities Pack

In my classroom, we like to learn with fun hands-on activities that target fine motor practice! It’s one of the reasons why the kids adore this pack out of all their winter theme activities. The winter activities pack is a wonderful resource for both parents and teachers!

These activities are best suited for preschoolers but can also be modified for toddlers and older children. Enjoy them at home over the winter break, or use them in your classroom lessons that have a winter theme.

If you’re looking for winter-themed activities specifically for toddlers, check out our popular Kids Snow Hunt and Sensory Exploration Activity. It is too much of fun to miss out!

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We have included 17 activities and worksheets to keep those little hands busy. These include:

• Sensory activities that you can include in your sensory bin
• Winter math activities
• Winter art activities
• Winter literacy activities, AND MORE!

When to Teach a Winter Theme

Winter is approaching along with the holidays and will carry on throughout February in a lot of areas here in the US. This is an ideal time to teach a winter theme. Many educators love teaching a ‘seasonal’ theme. They discuss all four seasons to allow the kids to make connections between seasonal changes.

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Activities included

Winter Matching Activities

Winter Math Activities

Winter Tracing Activities

Winter Literacy Activities

Winter Sequencing Activities

Winter Art Activities

Worksheets

We also included no prep worksheets that make preschool winter activities a breeze! Simply print out on white paper and have fun! They’re ideal for January preschool themes.

WHERE TO GET THIS ACTIVITY

GET THE WINTER ACTIVITIES PACK

Ready to get your students engaged in fun, hands-on learning this winter? Then look no further than this Winter Activities Pack for Kindergarten Math & Literacy Centers. Choose from an alphabet hunt, color and shape matching activities, playdough mats, sorting activities, no-prep worksheets and much more! Both color and black and white formats are included, where possible, to suit your individual printing needs.  

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Quick Winter Fact Sheet

Winter Quick Facts are delightful nuggets of knowledge that can add depth and excitement to a preschooler’s learning experience. Here are some quick facts about Winter to fascinate the kids and develop their curiosity:

• Winter is the coldest season of the year.
• Winter is in between Fall and Spring.
• Winter is different everywhere on Earth.
• In the areas close to the Equator, the temperatures stay warm the whole year.
• In regions close to the poles, the temperatures stay cold throughout the year.
• The seasonal changes are most noticeable between the poles and the equator.
• Winter is a season of inactivity or dormancy.
• Some animals hibernate during Winter by taking a long nap. They wake up when it’s warmer and food is more available. Some plants and trees die and leave their seeds or stop growing.
• During winter, it gets really cold, so we wear warm clothes like hats, scarves, and mittens to stay cozy. Animals in the wild also have special fur or feathers to keep them warm, and some birds even migrate to warmer places.
• Many people play sports like ice skating, sledding, hockey, or skiing in Winter.
• Comforting meals like soup and hot beverages like cocoa or hot chocolate are popular in Winter.
• Every snowflake is unique, just like you! Snowflakes form when tiny ice crystals join together in the clouds and fall to the ground. Next time you catch a snowflake on your mitten, think about how special and one-of-a-kind it is!

Check out these Fun Facts about Winter for Kids to find more fun topics of discussion!

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