Preschool Winter Clothes and Staying Warm in the Winter Theme

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.

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Planning your Winter Clothes and Staying Warm Preschool Theme 

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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 Painting

Provide 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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I Can Make My Own Scarf

Provide children with fabric markers along with a strip of fabric that works with your chosen markers to make their very own scarf!
​Find all the details along with tips on our Make Your Own Scarf blog post. ​

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Marble Painting Mitten

Print out a picture of mittens onto cardstock, place mittens in a ziplock bag with paint and marbles. Invite preschoolers to move the marble around to paint their mitten.

Decorate a Sweater

Invite preschoolers to decorate a sweater, mittens and scarf picture with  sequins, gems, glitter, stickers, and crayons. These templates are included in our Winter Clothes Activity pack

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Enhance your Dramatic Play Space for a Winter Clothes Theme

Add a variety of winter clothes to the dramatic play center for children to explore. Consider adding boots, snow pants, winter jackets, mittens, winter hats, and scarves. Hang a clothesline and provide clothespins so children can practice hanging clothes up to dry.

Department Store

Include 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.

Hot Chocolate Stand

Nothing warms you up during the cold winter months like a cup of hot chocolate. Transform your dramatic play area into a hot chocolate stand. Try out this Hot Chocolate Stand from Pre-K Printable Fun

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Enhance your Construction Area and Small World Play Space for a Winter Clothes/Staying Warm Theme

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.

Animals Hibernating

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 Matching

Set 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 Tray

Using 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 Wall Activity Pack is full of a variety of literacy activities to keep your preschoolers engaged all winter long. 

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Create Letters with a Scarf

Provide a scarf and encourage children to manipulate the scarf in a variety of ways to create letters.

Alphabet Soup Matching

Use play dough to make noodles to use with these fun soup mats from our Winter Clothes activity pack

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Winter Seek and Find

Use these Winter Seek and Find activities to engage in conversation about winter clothes and staying warm during winter activities! 

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Mystery Mitten

Fill a mitten with plastic letters. Preschoolers take turns removing the mitten and identifying the letter.

The Mitten Book Companion Set

Coming Soon!

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

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*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 Gear

Use 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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Winter Hat Match Up

Cut out simple winter hats from felt, and have preschoolers match the corresponding color pom pom to the hat.

Measure with Mittens

Have preschoolers measure each other using mittens, have preschoolers keep a record and compare the measurements. A great way to practice non-standard measuring.

Sort into Groups

Inside our Winter Measure, Graph and Compare pack you can find this printable sorting by category set!

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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.

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Animals Staying Warm in the Winter*

Match up photos of animals to the habitats that keep them warm. Learn more with our animal's winter homes resource. 

Mitten Test

Gather mittens and gloves in a variety of qualities and materials. Provide snow inside a sensory bin. Invite children to predict which mittens/gloves will keep hands the warmest. Then, invites children to play with the snow using the variety of mittens and communicate their findings. ​

Animal Migration

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Clothes to Wear in the Winter

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*Mitten Matching-Fine Motor

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. 

                     Winter Dough Mats-Fine Motor

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. 

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*Winter Clothes Relay Race-Gross Motor

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. 

Shoveling Snow-Gross Motor

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-Fine Motor

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. ​

Mitten Lacing-Fine Motor

Lacing mittens is a fun fine motor activity for this theme! Get this printable in our Winter Clothes Activity Pack

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Snowball Toss-Gross Motor

Using crumbled paper, or a pair or matched white socks in balls. Have preschoolers practice tossing the snowballs into a basket.

Snowflake Balance

Using blue tape on the floor, make a snowflake and have preschoolers walk the lines while maintaining balance.

Staying Warm Gross Motor Dice*

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Social and Emotional Ideas for your Preschoolers

 *Winter Clothes Dress-Up  Game-
Practice Taking Turns

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  Winter clothes Activity Pack. 

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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

I'm a Little Teapot

Nothing like a hot drink to help get warm! This is a great theme to introduce this rhyme and you can make it interactive with our  I'm a Little Teapot Props and Digital Song board set (members only)

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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.  

Sign-in Activities

Add 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. 

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Theme up Your Calendar!

The scarf number cards included in my Winter Calendar Activities  set is perfect for adding your theme to your calendar activities. 
We've also included 15 games to play with your preschoolers during calendar time all winter long!

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Winter Clothes Conversation Cards

Support 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. 

Winter Countdown

Countdown to the first day of Winter with this Member Exclusive countdown printable! Members: easily download this printable in our Winter Countdown shop listing

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The Right Fit: At Home Idea

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. 

Winter Clothes Exchange

Encourage families to bring in gently worn winter gear, to exchange with each other.
Donate leftover items to a local charity.

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Get ready for winter by engaging in fun preschool winter clothes activities featuring winter gear and activities to keep warm! These easy to set up learning activities are perfect for preschoolers. Support literacy, math, and motor skills with activities little ones will love.

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