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!
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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.
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Free Winter Sports Preschool 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.
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 PaintingThis 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
Dramatic Play Winter Wonderland from Creative Tots
Ice Skating Rink by L.C SLP
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!
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.
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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 LettersPractice uppercase or lowercase letter matching with this fun activity from our Winter Sports Activity Pack
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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
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
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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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 CubeRoll 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
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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