Preschool Winter Sports Theme

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Winter Sports Preschool Activities! Pick and choose the activities for your lesson or download a free copy of our Winter Sports Preschool Lesson Plan to save you time!

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Planning your Winter Sports Preschool Theme

Club Members can download all of ​our Winter Sports Resources and theme guide for free!
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Download our Free Winter Sports Preschool Sample Lesson Plan

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Create Your Own Hockey Jersey

Give children blank t-shirt cut outs and variety of craft materials and allow
them to create their very own hockey jersey.

Pipe Cleaner Snowboard

Give each child a large craft stick and several pipe cleaners. Have them create a person with the pipe cleaners. Then decorate their craft stick as desired. When done attach the pipe cleaner person to the craft stick to create their snowboarder. ​

Ice Skater Painting

This Ice Skater Painting experience is a super fun and easy way to paint! We have all the details on our  Figure Skater Painting blog post. 

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Create a Ice Skating Rink

Lay out a white sheet and place cardboard boxes around it to create an ice skating rink. Children can pretend they are figure skating or playing hockey

Ski Lodge

Set up your dramatic play area like a ski lodge with areas to put coats, hats, boots, skis. Include tables, a hot coco stand and a fake fireplace

Sporting Goods Store

Set up a sporting goods store that sells all kind of winter sports gear. ​

Winter Sports Puppet Show

Work together to create winter sports athlete puppets and invite
children to put on puppet shows about each athlete. ​

More ideas from around the web:

Pretend Ice Fishing from My Catch a Star Classroom
Dramatic Play Winter Wonderland from Creative Tots
Ice Skating Rink by L.C SLP

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Small World Ski Ramp

​Set out pieces of PVC gutter pieces for students to stack onto blocks to create ski ramps to use in small world play.  Add skiing figures, or tape cardboard skis to your figures feet to simulate skis.  Invite children to make the figures ski down the ramp. ​

Small World Ice Rink

Provide your students with the materials they'll need to create a small world play ice rink. Use a plastic bin as the ice rink and blue or white craft paper, or aluminum foil, to create the ice surface. Provide materials to decorate the rink including cotton balls and miniature snowflakes if desired. Encourage students to use hockey players and ice skaters to set up a variety of different scenes.

Athlete Towers

Set up a life-size cutout of a winter sports athlete and challenge children to use different materials to make a tower as tall as the athlete. ​

Build a Sled

Leave out various recycled materials and challenge children to make a mini-sled for a stuffed animal. Once children are done with their creations, you can take them out in the snow and test them out or use your ski ramp inside if snow isn't available. ​

Recycled Hockey Stick

Leave out a variety of recyclables, tape and glue and invite children to make a recycled hockey stick. ​

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Winter Seek and Find Activities

Have children complete the Winter Seek and Find Activities to find people doing fun winter sports activities! ​

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Hockey Letter Knock Down

Write letters on plastic cups and place on the ground. Have children use a hockey stick and ball to knock down the letters you call out. ​

Ice Skater Sound Match *

This Ice Skater Sound Match from our Winter Sports Activity Pack is a great addition to your literacy center for this theme!

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Ice Skating Writing Tray

Have preschoolers practice letter writing in salt using a mini ice skater.

​Winter Sport Vocabulary Cards*

The Winter Sports Vocabulary Cards from our Winter Sports Activity Pack are a versatile tool for creating learning activities for this theme. Use for your writing center, sorting, gross motor activities, environmental print and more!

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Curling Flip and Find Letters

Practice uppercase or lowercase letter matching with this fun activity from our Winter Sports Activity Pack

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A Day for Skating Pre-K Book Companion

Embark on a winter wonderland adventure with our Printable Preschool A Day for Skating Book Companion Set, expertly designed to complement the heartwarming tale, "A Day for Skating" by Sarah Sullivan. Immerse young learners in the magic of the story with engaging activities that enhance vocabulary, critical thinking, and creativity.

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A Day for Skiing by Sarah Sullivan
 A is for Axel: An Ice Skating Alphabet by Brad Herzog
Dino Hockey by Lisa Wheeler 
Goodnight Hockey by Michael Dahl
Hockey the Wild by Nicholas Oldland
Lucy Tries Luge by Lisa Bowes
Ski! Ski! Ski! by Laura Boyle 
Sports in Winter by Jenna Lee Gleisner 
Squirrels on Skis by J. Hamilton Ray
Winter Sports by Finley Frasier 

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Ski Jumping Measurement

Measure the distance of pretend ski jumps. Place a masking tape line on the floor, have each student jump, mark where they land, and measure the distance.

Measure Winter Sports Gear

Bring in winter sports gear (a ski, snowboard, etc). Have your students use blocks or other non-standard units to measure length. ​Invite students and families to bring in any gear, too. This could also be a great opportunity to turn this activity into a charitable donation.

Use a Stopwatch

Use a stopwatch to record speed. Record how fast your student can "speed skate" from one spot to another. Use masking tape to mark your start and finish lines. Try beating your time. ​

Hockey Counting Practice *

Use this hockey counting activity from our Winter Sports Activity Pack to practice number recognition and counting. 

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Skating Patterns *

Practice extending and creating patterns with this activity from our Winter Sports Activity Pack

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Sort the Winter Sports Gear *

When getting ready for winter sports consideration must be given to the type of surface being played on. Use this sorting activity to get preschoolers familiar with winter sports gear and practice their sorting skills. While sorting talk about the construction of each type of gear to figure out where each is best used. 

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Curling Stone Sorting

Provide students with a variety of different colored plastic math counter  "curling stones"  to sort and match.

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Sports and Our Bodies 

After completing one of the gross sports activities, have children put their hands over their hearts to feel how quickly their heart is beating. Talk about how doing activities like sports raising our heart rate and is good for our health. ​

Hockey Puck Friction Test

Freeze water in a container or pan. Have children test a variety of objects out as hockey pucks. Test how well each slides along the ice. Some ideas include: Bottle Cap Pucks, Round Cardboard, Ice Pucks, Paper Pucks, Pom Pom Puck.

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Try on Winter Sports Gear

In an open, safe play area, set out various winter sports gear items (e.g., snow boots, ski goggles, mittens, scarves, helmets, ski jackets, snow pants, ice skate). Lay out the various winter sports gear items to explore in the play area, ensuring that they are accessible to the children. Invite the children to explore the gear by touching, feeling, and trying on different items. Encourage them to talk about how each item feels and what it might be used for.

Cross Country Skiing

Place a long line down on the floor using painter's tape. Have students line up and place their hands on the person in front of them. Have them simulate Cross Country Skiing by walking together. They will need to step together by stepping with their right foot and then their left foot, repeating their steps as they "ski" along the line.

Winter Sports Lacing Cards*

These Winter Sports Lacing Cards from our Winter Sports Activity Pack are easy to prepare, your preschoolers can help giving them even more fine motor practice! Simply laminate (optional for durability) then use a hole punch then invite children to lace the cards. 

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Downhill Skiing Prewriting Practice*

Practice writing skills with these tracing cards with a fun winter sports theme. 

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Indoor Ice Skating

Toss some paper plates on the ground and invite children to engage in some ice skating pretend play to work those muscles!

Winter Sports Gross Motor Cube

Roll the cube from our Winter Sports Activity Pack then act out the winter sport shown. 

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Favorite Winter Sports Group Discussion

Have a group discussion about winter sports. Let everyone contribute to the discussion, you can even record and graph your students' responses. ​

Take a Winter Sports Field Trip

Take your children outside to participate in some winter sports. You could go cross-country skiing, ice skating or even just sledding. 

Winter Sports Around the World 

Talk with children about what countries different winter sports originated from. You can show them on the map and add a picture of that sport on the country. ​

Winter Athlete Equipment Match*

Get a closer look at Winter Sports Gear and match them up to the athlete with this activity from our Winter Sports Activity Pack. 

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Winning and Losing Discussion

Engage in discussion about winning and losing. This can be done naturally while engaging in activities this week or as an extension after reading a book about Winter Sports

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Classroom Management and Parent Engagement Ideas for your Program

Winter Sports Gear Exchange

Host a Winter Sports Gear exchange in your program. Reach out to your families to see if they have unused extra sports gear laying around to exchange with other families. Donate leftovers to a local charity!

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Shop for Winter Sports Products from Pre-K Printable Fun:

Members can download all of these products for free using the special member links in the shop listings, or from the download area! Not a member? Purchase below, or find out how to join!

Preschool Winter Sports Activities

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Goodnight Hockey Pre-K Book Companion

$3.00

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A Day for Skating Pre-K Book Companion

$3.00

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