Winter Activities for Kindergarten
Winter Activities for Kindergarten
There are so many fun Winter Activities for Kindergarten you can do to help make the season both fun AND educational. Here are my favorite winter activities you can do at home or in a classroom with preschool and kindergarten aged children.
- Make a Polar Bear Craft with marshmallows or try some other polar bear crafts
- Make some Fake Snow slime...
- Make a snowman out of marshmallows
- Make Snow dough! Then practice writing sight words with the snow dough.
- Make Hot Chocolate Playdoh
- Have a snowball fight indoors using rolled up socks as the snowballs
- Do a frosty magic milk winter science experiment
- Teach the students some winter songs.
- Build an reading igloo out of milk or water jugs. -It makes a fun reading nook!
- Read Snowmen at Work….(and do these snowmen at work activities and lesson ideas)
- Read the Mitten by Jan Brett. Do these Mitten Worksheets
- Go sledding!
- Clean the desks/counters with shaving cream…the shaving cream is snow and draw fun pictures in the “snow”
- Skate around the floor in your socks
- Have a dance party to Sight Word Songs
- Make paper snowflakes
- Make some snowman crafts
- Make a paper plate snow globe.
- Make a snowman craft out of coffee filters
- Roll a Penguin!
- Play Snowman Hide and Seek… hide a snowman and have kids look for it!
- Learn the letter P and do a penguin craft
- Read “There was an Old Lady who swallowed some snow” and make an Old Lady Craftivity
- Do a “science in a jar” experiment with this winter snowstorm jar
- Make salt crystal snowflakes
- Play a winter themed classroom game
- Take a poll and make a graph: Which activity do you like best? Sledding or Building a snowman?
- Read books and do a writing prompt about Martin Luther King Junior
- Make Fingerprint snowmen
- Play Feed the Penguin game
- Have all your lessons planned out -from Jan 1 through March 1 with this Winter Activity Pack!