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Winter Activities for Kids

Winter Activities for Kids from The Educators' Spin On It

Are you wanting a few activities about winter for your child or classroom? Here are Winter Themed activities to help your child learn about the season and be creative too!

From ice to snowmen there are so many winter activities to choose from.

Winter Activities for Kids from The Educators' Spin On It
Winter Activities for Kids
  • Snowman Perspective Painting
  • Winter Writing Prompt
  • Snowman Name
  • Winter Sight Word Book Printable
  • Ice Exploration
  • Stamping with Snowflakes
  • Signs of Winter Printables

Winter Activities for Kids

We had lots of fun learning about the cold and snow this week as we learned about Winter.

This week’s book choices for our Winter Books

Winter Bookshelf:

Winter Themed Books for Kids
Winter Books for Kids

This is the only month I have 2 picture books with characters that wear glasses!!! We love the Tiny series and Tiny The Snow Dog is a winter favorite. I added “Frozen Noses” to our collection last year.  It is a little rhyme about outdoor play.

My only complaint is that the book shows the little boy losing his glasses on 2 different pages. As a parent of a young child in glasses – this just doesn’t happen! I don’t know why illustrators feel the need to draw a kids glasses off their face???

I think kids in glasses are adorable and I can at least appreciate having a book with one of the main characters in glasses.

Snowman Painting activity for kids

Here’s what we were up to with our After School Winter Projects

Snowman Perspective Painting

Our spin on this Pinned project from Deep Space Sparkle, a blog about art activities and lessons to do with grade school children. To read the directions and see some of her student samples, stop by!  She recommends making snow with Q-tips, but we love to use the ends of empty thread spools!

I love my 5 year old take on this project, she explained that the snowman was looking down at the snow on the ground!

Our Easy Birch Tree Painting Project is a fun one to do with a Winter Themed too.

Snowglobe writing activity for kids

Winter Writing Prompt

We read this cute story from Hallmark about the snow families that live in a snow globe which prompted a story writing called “What’s Shakin in Snowflake City”.

The writing prompt came from Mrs. Jump’s Class Website that I pinned on our Winter Pinterest Board. Mrs. Jump has some great snowman ideas that you should check out. The Prompt is If I lived in a snow globe…

Snowman Name Activity for Kids

Snowman Name

We sent big brother back to college today so my 5 year old made this for him for his dorm room. She cut out the circle and hat and scarf by herself. She made them Orange and Blue for GO GATORS and GO BRONCOS!

Snowman Sight Word Book

Winter Sight Word Book Printable

We practiced number words and plurals in our Winter Sight Word Book.  Here’s your own printable.  I love how they have to remember what they have added on each page to check for comprehension. 

At the very last page have your little one write the words under each number that matches, under one would be mouth, hat, scarf etc. 

Or they could draw it if they aren’t ready for writing words just yet.

Snowman Sight Word Book

Click here to print your own Free Snowman Counting Book

Exploring Ice with Kids from the Educators' Spin On It

Ice Exploration

Since we live in the South where it never snows and hardly ever gets very cold, we have to celebrate a little when it freezes things. We’re lucky that both of our parents live where it’s very cold so our children have experienced snow too. 

However we’ve learned through teaching it’s important for children to observe these changes in weather. 

This week we actually got down to 22 degrees one night, which broke a record,  so we decided it was time to freeze some water outside. We filled up all sorts of containers, even our bird bath, and froze them overnight. It was a fun science experiment for my daughter. We used the afternoon to go outside and fill up some random containers with water. 

She was so excited to go out the next morning to see what had happened. And to watch what happened as the day progressed. Water tables are great for this science experiment.

We even tried our water beads in the frozen water table!

Snowflake stamping - the perfect winter craft for kids of all ages

Stamping with Snowflakes

Make your own stamps from foam snowflakes and bottle caps. Great for little hands to use and build find motor skills. You could also work on patterning with different designs or colors.

Winter Journal and Observation Sheet Printables

Signs of Winter Printables

We’ve created our own Winter Journal and Observation Sheet.  Click here for the printable.

Snowman Themed Sight Word Book from The Educators' Spin On it

Next week we’re hoping to cut out snowflakes and created a Valentine Colored Snowflake Garland…look for more snow to come! And learn about Martin Luther King Jr!

winter virtual field trips for kids featuring sledding, snow covered mountains and evergreen trees and ice castles

Looking for more Winter Ideas? Try this Winter Virtual Field Trips!

What are some of your favorite Winter Activities?  We’d love to hear from you!

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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Annelise Dent says

    January 5, 2017 at 7:30 pm

    One of my favorite snowman activities, is to use the Mr/Mrs Potato Head pieces on mini snowmen that the children make. That way each child gets their own; and they can change the look as many times as they want.

  2. Jen Farr says

    January 17, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    Great collection. So much fun can be had with snow! Thanks for linking to the Outdoor Play Party.

  3. Coombe Mill says

    January 6, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    No snow for us yet either but I am still hoping!

  4. Holli says

    January 5, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    What a great collection. The snowman book will be great for my little ones next year I bet (were just learning to scribble). On second thought, maybe they could draw together. Love it!

  5. JDaniel4's Mom says

    January 5, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    I love how the snowman is reaching for the snow! What a wonderful group of activities you did. I will be featuring this post on Read.Explore.Learn. on Facebook tomorrow.

  6. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    January 10, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    We're supposed to be cold again this weekend so I'm hoing we can do this again. I'm going to try the water table too with a little bit of water and bring out the Polar Bear Animals…wish I had penguins too.

  7. Julie says

    January 10, 2012 at 9:56 am

    I love your idea of ice exploration. We also live in the south but it's going to be very cold on the weekend overnight. I'm going to let the kids put some water out to freeze too! Last year we did it and we put a little plastic dinosaur in the water so it was stuck in there in the morning. Then we brought it inside and let it melt. The kids loved it.

  8. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    January 10, 2012 at 9:46 am

    I love your snowman name – we'll have to do that!

    Thanks for participating in the Afterschool Blog Hop =)

  9. Patty Palmer says

    January 9, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Love your "spin" on teh close-up snowman! Great concept for a blog as well.
    Thanks for the link!

  10. Raising a Happy Child says

    January 9, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Great activities! It's been freezing cold in the mornings here, but things warm up to upper 60s in the afternoon. We haven't done much for winter fun, but maybe we will do more if we actually manage to drive to the snow later in our year.

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