Preschool Winter Clothes and Staying Warm in the Winter Theme Activities
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Winter Clothes and Staying Warm Preschool Theme Map
Do you need helping planning your Winter Clothes theme? Use the suggested learning objectives and vocabulary ideas found on our Theme Map to help you plan your own Winter Clothes Lessons.
Free Winter Clothes Preschool Lesson Plan
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*Create a Winter Hat Craft
Provide construction paper, card stock, or paper plates along with with a variety of art supplies for children to create a winter hat. For younger children consider cutting out the shape for them or providing a variety of shape cutouts to make designing the hat easier.
Mitten PaintingProvide the children with mittens, or gloves, construction paper and your choice of paint colors. Let them explore painting with the mittens on. They will create their own artwork while painting in an untraditional way.
See the full tutorial here on my blog. |
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More Art & Creativity ideas:
Pop-up Firework Craft from Kids Craft Room
Celebration Play Dough from Buggy and Buddy
Winter Hat by Story Time Katie
Paint with Mittens by Scrumdilly-do!
Stained Glass Mittens by Kinder Craze
Celebration Play Dough from Buggy and Buddy
Winter Hat by Story Time Katie
Paint with Mittens by Scrumdilly-do!
Stained Glass Mittens by Kinder Craze
Enhance your Dramatic Play Space
Add a variety of winter clothes to the dramatic play center for children to explore.
Hang a clothesline and provide clothespins so children can practice hanging clothes up to dry.
Department StoreInclude various winter clothing items to create a store where your students can purchase clothes. They can use a cash register, money and include price tags on the clothing.
Combine items from around the house with the printable signs, labels, and props from My Department Store Dramatic Play |
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Ice Rink
Include a big white piece of paper for the ice, have a ice skate rental booth and a shoe locker. Encourage the children to skate across the ice.
Enhance your Construction Area and Small World Play Space
Provide Materials for creating a snowy scene in your construction space this week. Add Cotton Balls (Snow Balls), and White Felt (for snow).
Invitation to Create a Winter Scene
Share photos of winter scenes with your students. Ask them what kinds of materials they could use to re-create a small world play winter scene.
Hibernating Animals
Provide your student with materials to create dens, and burrow for hibernating animals (cardboard tubes, nesting material) . Add photos of animals hibernating, and animal figures such as bears to your space.
*Mitten Letter MatchingSet up a twist on mitten matching with this uppercase-to-lowercase matching activity.
Use this one as a file folder game, table activity, or play like memory with your preschooler. |
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Snowy Writing TrayUsing white sand, sugar, salt, craft snow or white glitter create a writing tray. Include letter cards and a mitten, invite the child to put on the mitten and practice tracing the letters.
See our full Snowy Letter Tray tutorial on my blog |
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Winter Word Wall Activities
This Winter Word Walls Activity Pack is full of a variety of literacy activities to keep your preschoolers engaged all winter long.
More Language & Literacy Activities:
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The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel
The Mitten by Jan Brett The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming Snowballs by Lois Ehlert |
*Mitten Ten Frame Counting
Ten frames are an engaging tool for supporting children with a variety of math skills.
Use the printable counters included in the Winter Clothes Activity Pack or add your own fun counters like these sparkly pom poms for added engagement. |
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Sorting Winter GearUse the Winter Clothes Word Wall Cards as labels to invite children to sort winter gear.
This activity supports sorting & classification skills, as well as language & literacy development. |
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Painting Snow
If you have snow outside scoop some up and add it into a sensory bin. Let your students explore painting the snow with watercolors. They will use words like cold, melt, and ice.
How Do We Stay Warm?
Grab a bowl of ice water, and first have the child dip their hand in there, you can record how long they can keep their fingers in. Next, using shortening to create blubber, cover one finger with a thick amount and then have the child dip their finger into the ice cold water again. Talk to them about the difference before they had the blubber from now. Talk with the child about how arctic animals have blubber and the difference between what keeps humans warm.
*Mitten Matching
Collect a variety of mittens, gather in a pile separated from their mates.
Invite children to match-up the mittens. Provide a clothesline (simply hang sturdy string across the room) for children to hang each pair using clothespins. This is a great fine motor workout, add gross motor fun as well by placing the mittens across the room from the clothesline or placing the mittens in a variety of places that require children to jump, stoop, crawl, and reach for them.
Invite children to match-up the mittens. Provide a clothesline (simply hang sturdy string across the room) for children to hang each pair using clothespins. This is a great fine motor workout, add gross motor fun as well by placing the mittens across the room from the clothesline or placing the mittens in a variety of places that require children to jump, stoop, crawl, and reach for them.
*Winter Clothes Relay Race
Gather a basket of winter clothing in a variety of sizes, place on one side of the room. On the other side of the room children will wait in line (or they can all start at once depending on group size and development appropriateness), children travel over to the basket and put on the winter gear one at a time. Provide a checklist or guidance about the order in which to put on winter gear. This is not only a great workout but it will also help children be more efficient when putting on their winter gear.
Winter Dough Mats
Add Winter Dough Mats to your dough center to encourage children to work their hands. These mats further motivate children to move their hands in a variety of ways to create objects to add to each mat.
Shoveling Snow
You can use small kids shovels, or dust pans with brushes to help your kids learn to shovel. Place cotton balls or paper bowls throughout the room to practice their shoveling skills.
Ice Transfer
Using small or regular size ice cubes give your students a paper of tongs or kids tweezers work. Have them practice transferring the ice back and forth between two bowls.
*Winter Clothes Dress-Up Relay Game
Preschoolers love this roll and play game!
Practice taking turns by rolling the playing cube, then dress the child up for winter play! This game is included in the PKPF Winter clothes Activity Pack. |
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More Physical Development Ideas:
Velcro Ball from Creative Connections from Kids
Social and Emotional Ideas for your Preschoolers
Winter Gear Around the World
Explore how other locations prepare for winter weather! Also explore what type of weather other locations are experiencing. If you live in a very cold and snowy climate contact someone in a warmer climate, have them describe the type of weather they have or even better share a photo!
What to Wear in the Winter Chart
Have a class discussion about all the winter gear you need, make a list.
Warm and Cold Weather Sort
You can either have the children sort through magazines for warm and cold weather clothing and create a collage or you can provide them with pictures to sort the different types of clothing.
Discussion: How do people stay warm?
Challenge your students to come up with a variety of ways they can stay warm in the winter.
Discussion: How do animals stay warm?
Challenge your students to come up with a variety of ways animals stay warm. Extend this activity by comparing the needs of people an animals. How are they the same? How are they different?
Explore what winter is like in your community
Students can share what they know about Seasonal Changes, Clothing, Holidays and Community Events in winter
There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing from Sugar Spice and Glitter
Find Winter Activities for Preschoolers
Finding plenty of engaging indoor activities for winter can be a challenge!
Educators need a lot of tools in their pocket to keep kids busy through those chilly days.
We've rounded up a bundle of fun activity ideas from our community members, visit the blog to see the ideas and photos shared by our members.
Educators need a lot of tools in their pocket to keep kids busy through those chilly days.
We've rounded up a bundle of fun activity ideas from our community members, visit the blog to see the ideas and photos shared by our members.
Sign-in ActivitiesAdd some literacy to your daily routine! Daily Attendance Activities support Name Recognition and a Sense of Belonging in the program.
The PKPF pack of Editable Daily Attendance Activities includes plenty of themes to use throughout the year. Member Jessica H. shared this photo of the Snowball Sign In. |
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Theme up Your Calendar!The scarf number cards included in my Winter Calendar Cards set is perfect for adding your theme to your calendar activities.
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Winter Clothes Conversation CardsSupport your child in developing back and forth conversation skills. My set of Winter Conversation cards are a great way to encourage this skill. Each card has a full color photograph and questions to get the conversation started.
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The Right Fit
Gather up winter gear from family members and invite your preschooler to try them on. This is a fun and silly activity, great time for practicing life skills (and fine motor development) by zipping and buttoning, and an opportunity for talking about size and getting the right fit.
Warm winter clothing should fit just right to keep the cold, wind, and snow out and keep you warm.
Warm winter clothing should fit just right to keep the cold, wind, and snow out and keep you warm.
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