Winter!

Winter

Learning Activities
Winter Number Order Fun
Skills: Math - number recognition, number order, writing numbers
Here is the link to Winter Number Order Fun

Addie putting the numbers in order

Number Fill-In the Blank Activity

Addie's completed activity- I laminated the sheets, so we can reuse them!

Mitten Number Match

Skills:  Math - counting, number recognition, matching

Addie did this activity last winter, but it was the first time for Tana!  

Here is the link to this great number matching activity!

Penguin Splash Game

Addie and I did this fun number game last year! 

Here is the link to this number recognition counting game

Snowman Glyph

Skills:  Following directions, writing, coloring pasting

Only Tana and Addie were doing this project, so we didn't do all of the activities included with this activity.

Here is the link to this Snowman Glyph

Snowball Fight Math Game

Skills:  Math - counting, 

This math game focused on counting.  Here is the link to this Snowball Fight Counting Game.

Ice-Fishing for Letters!

Skills:  letter recognition

I've had this activity for many years, I modified it to fit in with our winter theme by having Tana go ice fishing. I wrote each upper and lowercase letter on old tin-can lids.  Then we used a magnetic fishing pole to catch the letters!  

Projects

Hooray for Snow!

Cut out a snowman shape from white paper and a snowbank

Cut out an orange nose, a scarf and three buttons

Glue the pieces to the snowman and draw on a mouth with black marker

Glue the snowbank and snowman to a piece of construction paper

Use pipe cleaners to make arms and glue the arms to the snowman

Use chalk to make snowflakes

Styrofoam Snowman Heads!

Push black push-pins into a Styrofoam ball

Cut an orange pipe cleaner for a nose and push into the Styrofoam ball

Make a loop with a silver pipe cleaner and push into the top to make a hanger

Tissue Paper Mitten

Draw a mitten shape onto white paper

Cut tissue paper into squares

Glue the squares onto the mitten.  Cut out the mitten

To make the marbled paper:

squeeze white shaving cream into a pan and spread it out, add a few drops of blue food coloring into the shaving cream and swirl it around.

Press white paper onto the shaving cream mixture and scrape off the excess. Let it dry

Glue the mitten onto the marbled paper

Circular Snowman!

I traced three different sized circles onto white paper, a scarf, arms and carrot nose onto colored paper.

Directions:  Cut out the circles, arms, scarf and nose.  

Glue all the pieces onto a 5x7 piece of construction paper

Draw on eyes and a mouth.

Tin Can Snowman

Paint 3 different sized tin cans white - let dry

Glue on buttons for the face and buttons down the front.  

Add a ribbon scarf

Cut out 2 identical circles from craft foam and glue 4 corks to the centers of the circles.

Glue the foam/cork hat to the top of the snowman

Melted Snowman

Cut out a black hat, sun and nose

Type and print the following poem

I made a little snowman

with a little hat.

The sun came out and 

melted him and now my

snowman is FLAT!

Directions:  Rip a snowman face from white paper

Glue the face to a piece of construction paper.

Glue on the hat and nose and draw on the eyes and mouth

Glue the sun to the top corner

Glue the poem to the bottom corner

Framed Snowflake Sun Catcher

Cut a frame out of black construction paper

Cut a snowflake out of black paper

Cut shades of blue tissue paper into squares

Directions:  Place the frame on a piece of Contact paper

Place the snowflake in the middle of the frame

Cover with the tissue paper squares

Seal the other side with Contact paper

Cold Hands Warm Hearts

Paint hands and press onto paper

Draw a mitten shape around each hand and add a "cuff" to the mittens in a different color

Cut out a heart shape and glue the mittens in the center

Write - Cold hands Warm Hearts  on the heart

Penguins on Ice

Paint hand black and press onto white paper

Dip a Q-tip into white paint and make falling snow on colored construction paper

When dry, glue on a square of aluminum foil

Glue a white circle onto the hand and add an orange construction paper beak and googly eyes

Cut the penguin hand out and glue it to the paper.