Explore iconic winter scenes and experience of snow-covered mountains, sledding, ice castles, evergreen trees, and more with this ultimate collection of Winter virtual field trips for kids.
Where will you take a virtual field trip first this winter?
Winter Virtual Field Trips for Kids
There are so many amazing places to see and experience during the winter months throughout the world. Depending on where you live, sometimes you just may never have the chance to see it so here’s your chance with this Winter Virtual Field Trips.
This collection of winter virtual tours highlights our national parks, winter sports, natural wonders of winter with frozen lakes, waterfalls, glaciers and MORE.
You can track your virtual tours with our Printable Virtual Field Trip Log!
I’ve put together this collection of locations for you packed full of winter virtual field trips for kids that I believe as a teacher and a mom are age-appropriate for the younger children to watch online.
Plus we’ve at the end, I included various Christmas themed virtual field trips for the kids to enjoy like visiting a reindeer or Christmas tree farm or even the largest holiday lights displays.
Are you ready to explore with these virtual field trips for Winter?
Winter Virtual Field Trips to National Parks
The National parks take on a whole new look in the winter months. We’ve put together a collection on iconic places to visit on your winter virtual field trips.
Rocky Mountain National Park in Winter
- Winter in the Rocky Mountain National Park
- Winter Hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park
- Rocky Mountain Nation Park Snow Removal on Trail Ridge Road
- Hidden Valley Snowplay Area at Rocky Mountain National Park
Here’s a peek at our family’s snow packed Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure!
Grand Canyon in Winter
- Visit a snow-swept Grand Canyon National Park
- Grand Canyon First Snowfall of Winter
- Grand Canyon with Snow from the Air
Yosemite in Winter
Yellowstone in Winter
Smoky Mountain National Park with Snow
Ice Castle Virtual Field Trip
- Icicle Farmers Build a 30,000 Tonne Frozen Ice Castle
- Utah’s incredible Ice Castles take shape
- Building an Amazing Ice Castle
- Explore the Dillon Ice Castles in Colorado
- Ice Castles of Minnesota
- How to Build and Maintain an Ice Castle
Painting with ice or frozen water beads sensory play can be a fun extension to these ice themed virtual field trips.
Natural Wonders of Winter Virtual Field Trips
These are some amazing things that happen in winter when temperatures drop below freezing. Take a look at these glaciers, frozen lakes, and even watch snow falling.
Don’t miss what happens on the train tracks in winter too, it’s pretty amazing to see how the trains clear the snow.
Try these Winter Science Experiments with kids too!
Glaciers Virtual Field Trips
- What are glaciers, and how do they impact the land?
- Iceland’s Glaciers – 360
- Iceland Virtual Field Trip – All About Glaciers and Ice Caves
- Iceland Tours: Into the Glacier at Langjökull
- Ice caves of Langjökull Glacier in Iceland
- Largest Glacier Calving ever filmed
- Biggest Iceberg Calvings
Frozen Waterfalls Virtual Field Trips
- Frozen Waterfall from Around the World
- Ice Climbing Frozen Waterfall
- Ice Climbing a Rigid Designator Frozen Waterfall in Colorado
Snow Themed Virtual Field Trips
- Virtual Winter Walk – Walking in a Snow Forest
- Winter Wonderlands of the World
- Mountains of Scotland in Winter
- Switzerland in Winter
- Winter Saint Petersburg Russia
Make your own Snow! Here’s our snow recipe for sensory play!
Trains in Winter Snow on Tracks
Create your own moving Polar Express Train.
Winter Sports Virtual Field Trips
There are so many fun ways to get outside in the winter for winter sport. This collection provides you a virtual field trip to skiing, ice skating, sledding and even tubbing.
Skiing
- Skiing at Lake Louise Ski Resort
- Virtual Skiing at Telluride
- Spearhead: Pushing the Boundaries of BC’s Backcountry
- Austrian Alps, Skiing
- Virtual Skiing in HD – Calabogie Peaks
- Rosa Khutor Ski Resort. Southern slope. Sochi, Russia
Ice Skating
- Skating at Lake Louise in Banff National Park
- Hear the Otherworldly Sounds of Skating on Thin Ice
- Walk Across World’s Deepest Frozen Lake
- Backcountry Ice Skating in Alaska Is the Ultimate Winter Adventure
- Wild Ice Skating In Sweden
Sledding
- Backyard Luge Sled Run
- Sled riding Montana mountains, longest sled ride EVER
- Sesame Street: Kids Sledding in the Snow
- The sled ride from Preda to Berguen in the Grisons in Switzerland
Tubing
- Boulder Ridge Snow Tubing at Liberty Mountain
- Frisco Adventure Park – Snow Tubing | Colorado
- Tubing at Winter Park Resort
Explore these Winter Sports Books to learn more!
Arctic animals
Polar Bears
- Explore the Arctic with these Polar Bears and their cubs
You might want to even explore the Northern Lights while you’re learning about the Arctic. Here’s a fun Northern lights art project.
Virtual Tours of Christmas Around the World
- Explore our collection of Christmas Virtual Field Trips for Kids!
Here’s a sneak peek at some of the Christmas adventures on this list….
Holiday Lights Virtual Field Trips
- The World’s Most Magical Christmas Towns
- Best Places To Celebrate Christmas Around The World
- Best Christmas Trees Around the World
- The World’s Most Amazing Christmas Trees
- New York Walk – Fifth Avenue to Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
- Climbing The World’s Tallest “Natural” Christmas Tree in Dortmund
- Holiday Decorations “We The People” at the WhiteHouse
Reindeer Themed Virtual Field Trips
- Magical Finland Sleigh Ride with a Reindeer!
- Reindeer! Learn facts about Reindeer
- Living with Reindeer
- Reindeer Herding In Snowy Mongolia
- How to Draw a Reindeer
Take our Reindeer STEM Challenge!
Christmas Tree Farms Virtual Field Trip
- Largest Christmas Tree Farm in the World
- Planting Christmas Trees Virtual Field Trip
- Let’s Find A Christmas Tree!
Grab some Christmas Tree Science Experiments here!
Winter Virtual Field Trip Log
Be sure to download our Virtual Field Trip log to keep track of your winter virtual field trips! Add then together to create a virtual travel journal of your winter adventures.
Here’s a 2 hour long video of snow falling on the trees if you’d like to have it playing in the background this winter. There’s nothing like hearing the sound of fresh falling snow.
Looking for extensions to your virtual tours, try these adorable Snow Themed Activities for kids!
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I liked the field trip it was really fun and I got a great experience.
Hi Arielle, which virtual field trips did you check out? Any other you wish were here, we’re always looking to add more winter adventures to our list.