Preschool Winter Clothes and Staying Warm in the Winter Theme Activities
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Winter Clothes and Staying Warm Preschool Theme Map
Free Winter Clothes Preschool Lesson Plan
*Create a Winter Hat CraftProvide 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.
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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. |
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. |
Marble Painting 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
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 |
Ice Rink
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
Add Cotton Balls (Snow Balls), and White Felt (for snow).
Invitation to Create a Winter Scene
Animals Hibernating
*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. |
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 |
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
Alphabet Soup MatchingUse 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 FindUse 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
The Mitten Book Companion Set
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. |
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. |
Winter Hat Match Up
Measure with Mittens
Sort into GroupsInside our Winter Measure, Graph and Compare pack you can find this printable sorting by category set!
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Painting Snow
How Do We Stay Warm?
Animals Staying Warm in the Winter*
Mitten Test
Animal Migration
Clothes to Wear in the Winter
*Mitten Matching-Fine Motor
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
Shoveling Snow-Gross Motor
Ice Transfer-Fine Motor
Mitten Lacing-Fine MotorLacing 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
Snowflake Balance
Staying Warm Gross Motor Dice*
Social and Emotional Ideas for your Preschoolers
*Winter Clothes Dress-Up Game-
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Winter Gear Around the World
What to Wear in the Winter Chart
Warm and Cold Weather Sort
Discussion: How do people stay warm?
Discussion: How do animals stay warm?
Explore what winter is like in your community
Find Winter Activities for Preschoolers
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. |
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! |
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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Winter CountdownCountdown 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
Winter Clothes Exchange
Donate leftover items to a local charity.
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Winter Clothes and Staying Warm Preschool Activity Pack
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.
This 90-page downloadable .pdf file includes the following 24 activities
- Coat & Button Color Match
- Mitten Color Match
- Mitten Pattern Match
- Winter Clothes Patterning
- Which Sweater Doesn't Belong?
- Snowball Shape Clip Cards
- Hanging Mittens Counting Mats 1-10
- Mitten Counting Mats with Frames
- Winter Clothes Count and Clip Cards
- Mitten Puzzles 1-10
- Mitten Letter Match
- Winter Clothes Word Wall Cards
- Missing Winter Gear Match
- Winter Clothes Dress Up
- Roll & Color Winter Clothes
- Mitten Lacing Cards
- Fireplace Number Mats
- Spin and Color Numbers Quilt Game
- Packing for Hot and Cold Climates
- I can get dressed for snow cut & paste sequencing
- Rhyming sweater puzzles
- Soup Mat and Recipe Cards
- Noodle Letter Cards uppercase and lowercase
- Winter Clothes Mats (Dough, Loose Parts, Collage)
- Also Included: Cover, Directions, TOS/Graphics Credit
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Winter Word Wall Activities
Freshen up your preschool writing center with this Winter Word Wall Activities pack
This set includes a variety of activities to engage preschoolers and kindergartners as they explore the 50 winter words in this pack.
Inside this 47-page pack you will find the following printables:
- Directions
- Word Wall Cards (fantastic for games and using in your pocket chart)
- Syllable Sort Game
- Pocket Chart Categorizing Cards
Reproducible Sheets
- I Can Seek Color & Trace Words
- I Can Build or Write Words
- I Can Tell a Story About Winter dictation sheet
- Winter Word Work
- TOS, Graphics Credit, Contact Information
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Winter Seek and Find Activities
This versatile pack includes all you need to seek and find winter items indoors or out!
Take the checklist and a clipboard outside to look for objects, use the object cards in your sensory bin, or use with the seek and find mats.
PKPF Learning Standards met through play :
Language and Literacy: Visual discrimination skills, Understands print carries a message.
Science: Notices similarities and differences in objects, Uses senses to explore the environment
Social Studies: developing a sense of direction and location
Physical Development: Gross Motor Development (go on a walk to seek & find using the checklist); Fine Motor Development (Hide the object cards in a bin of cottonballs, provide small scoops)
Approaches to Learning: Can focus on an Activity despite distractions
This 24 page Winter Seek and Find Activity Pack has all you need to set up a fun seek and find invitation. This pack includes 4 different scenes, each set of scenes includes:
- Seek & Find Winter Scene Poster
- Winter Scene Checklists (Color and B&W)
- Winter Scene Image Cards
- Also included: Table of contents, directions, alternate play suggestions, TOS, Graphics Credit
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Winter Circle Time Rhymes
This set of 6 printable Winter Rhymes and pieces is a fun way to add music and movement to your group time. These rhymes support your pre-k students in developing important math and literacy concepts such as letter identification, vocabulary words, rhyming, one to one correspondence, shape recognition, counting, and positional phrases.
This 12-page set includes:
- Add a Star
- Five Little Cookies
- Sleeping Bear
- Three White Snowflakes
- Winter Clothes
- Five Little Penguins
- Pieces for Magnet or Felt Activities
Also included: Directions, TOS & Graphics credit
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Winter Calendar Games Set
Use this set of preschool winter calendar cards inside your pocket chart calendar or use them to create a linear calendar. You will also find more than 15 educational calendar games to play with your students all season long.
Inside this 80-page PDF you will find the following printables as well as suggested activities, directions and learning standards for each:
Months/Season WINTER (Northern Hemisphere)
Months/Season Winter (Southern Hemisphere)
Year
Day of the week cards
Holidays and Special Days
Calendar Number Cards
- Christmas Tree Number Cards
- Gingerbread Number Cards
- Hot Chocolate Number Cards
- Snowman Number Cards
- Scarf Number Cards
- Snowflake Number Cards
- Heart Number Cards
- Groundhog Number Cards
- Candy Hearts Number Cards
Blank Card Covers
B&W Number Cards 1-31
Color heart Cards
2D Shape Cards
Sorting by Size Cards
Number Frame Cards (1-20)
Number Words (1-31)
Word Problem Cards
Estimation Scene
Sequencing Activity “I can build a snowman”
Visual Discrimination Activity
Uppercase Letter Cards
Lowercase Letter Cards
First Sounds Cards
Rhyming Cards
Directions and Graphics Credit
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