Winter Preschool Activities, Winter Crafts, Lessons, and Printables

Winter and Snow Crafts

Sock Winter Hats 
Make winter hats out of single socks. Simply cut at the ankle and glue to the top of a paper cup. Tie the end with yarn or ribbon for a perfect winter hat. Decorate paper cup with a face and hair.

Outdoor Snow Artwork
You need a cookie sheet, different colored tempera paint in cups, and paintbrushes. Take children outside in the snow and have them pack the cookie sheet with snow and take inside. Let them paint on the snow using the paintbrushes. Take a picture with a camera for a keepsake. Great science activity as well.

Snowflakes Printing
Cut a green pepper in half crosswise. Let children dip the pepper into white paint and press down onto dark blue colored construction paper. Add glitter to the picture before the paint dries.

Ice Skating Rink and Gross Motor Skills Activities

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Winter and Snow Activities

Picking up Snowballs Fine Motor Skill Activity
Provide children with a variety of different sized cotton balls and large tweezers. Let children try to pick up the snowballs with the tweezers and place them in sorting cups.

Winter Clothes: Roll and Color Activity and Printable

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Shaving Cream Snow Writing Activity
Place shaving cream on a paper plate and let children practice writing their name or letters with their finger in shaving cream "snow."

M for Mitten Craft and Activities

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Science: Measuring Snow
Provide a ruler for each child. When it's snowing or it has snowed, go outside and have children measure the snow and write down their measurement. Repeat the activity every 30 minutes for four times. Make a chart about your findings.

New Winter Wonderland Crafts, Activities, Games, and more

Winter and Snow Movement Rhymes and Songs

Dance Like Snowflackes
(Tune: Are You Sleeping?)
Dance like snowflakes,
dance like snowflakes
In the air, in the air
Whirling, twirling snowflakes
Whirling, twirling snowflakes
Here and there, here and there

The Winter Pokey
(Tune: The Hokey-Pokey)

You put your right mitten in,
You take your right mitten out.
You put your right mitten in,
And you shake it all about. (Shiver.)
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!

You put your left mitten in . . .
You put your right boot . . .
You put your left boot . . .
You put your warm scarf in . . .
You put your warm cap in . . .

Snowflakes, Snowflakes
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)

Snowflakes falling One by one,
Time to play and have some fun.
Build a snowman Snowballs, too,
Come and see what you can do.
Snowflakes falling One by one,
Time to play and have some fun.

I Love Snow
(Tune: Three Blind Mice)
I love snow. I love snow.
Soft, white snow; Soft, white snow.
It falls on the ground so soft and white.
Sometime it falls all through the night.
Did you ever see such a beautiful sight
As soft white snow?