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Preschool Winter Sports Theme Activities and Lesson Planning Ideas

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!

Please Note: This page is under construction! Please check back November 2022!

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Free Winter Sports Preschool Theme Map

Do you need helping planning your preschool winter sports theme? Use the suggested learning objectives and vocabulary ideas found on our Theme Map to help you plan your own Lessons.
Club Members Click here to download your Theme Map and Sample Plans!
Free Winter Sports Preschool Theme Map

Free Winter Sports Preschool Lesson Plan

Free Winter Sports Preschool Lesson Plan
We created this free winter sports sample preschool lesson plan using activities and our products featured on this page! Combine it with our coordinating resources to save even more time planning your lessons.
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Art & Creativity Ideas from Pre-K Printable Fun and our Community!

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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Dramatic Play Ideas from Pre-K Printable Fun and our Community!

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

Building and Small Word Play Ideas from Pre-K Printable Fun and our Community!

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. ​

Magnet Block Ski Ramps

​Use Magnatiles to create ski ramps to use in small world play.

Recycled Hockey Stick

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

Create a Small World Ice Rink

Create a cardboard ramp in your building area and add people figures with cardboard taped to their feet to simulate skis. Invite children to make the figures ski down the mountain! ​

Language and Literacy Ideas from Pre-K Printable Fun and our Community!

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.
Ice Skater Salt Writing Tray

​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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 Pre-K Printable Fun Arctic Animals and Ice Book Picks !
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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Math Ideas from Pre-K Printable Fun and our Community!

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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Science, Sensory and STEM Ideas from Pre-K Printable Fun and our Community!

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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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:

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Fire Safety Preschool Activity Pack

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Fire Engine Number Sorting Mats

$0.00
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Fire Safety Vocabulary Set

$3.00
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Attendance Daily Sign In Activities

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Fall Rhymes and Fingerplays

$3.00
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Fire Safety Gross Motor Preschool Activity

$2.00
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