Winter Projects and Activities

Winter Projects and Activities

Projects

5 Little Snowmen

Coffee Creamer Snowmen

Winter Melted Crayons

Here is the link to my original post when my son and I made these for his Kindergarten class 5 years ago.  We have so much fun making these each and every year!

Snowman Footprint

Stained Glass Snowman

Here is the link for the Snowman Template

Cardinal Handprints

Plastic Lid Snowmen

                                     

Penguin Footprint

                                                 

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts

                                   

Learning Projects

Dress the Snowman Cut and Paste

Skills:  cutting, following directions

Here is the link for Dress the Snowman

My Mitten is Big Enough . . . 

Skills:  writing, drawing

Here is the link for My Mitten is Big Enough

Draw, Cut and Paste Your Own Snowman

Skills:  shape recognition, shape drawing, cutting

 

Learning Activities

Snowman Button Counting

Skills:  number recognition, counting

Here is the link for Snowman Button Counting

Winter Beginning Sounds

Skills:   beginning sounds

Here is the link for Winter Beginning Sounds

Snowman Letter Matching

Skills:  upper and lowercase letters, beginning sounds, matching

Here it he link for Snowman Letter Matching

                              
                             

Winter Hat Letter Matching

Skills:  upper and lowercase letter matching

Here is the link for Winter Hat Letter Matching

                                          

Winter Learning Pack for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Here is the link for all of the activities below that are included in this Learning Pack

Beginning sound Letter Matching

Skills:  beginning sounds, matching

 Winter Counting/Number Cut and Paste

Skills:  counting, number recognition, cutting

Penguin Number Order

Skills:  number recognition, counting, number order, cutting

Winter Patterns

Skills:  what comes next, cutting

Penguin Shape Matching

Skills:  shape matching, shape identification

Snowman Number/Counting Matching

Skills;  counting, number recognition, cutting, pasting

The Letter P and Pumpkins!

The Letter P and Pumpkins!

The Letter P

P is for pumpkin

P is for pirate

P is for penguin

Pumpkin Projects

Hand Print Pumpkin

Paint one hand orange and press onto paper.  Paint 1 thumb green and press onto the top of the hand print pumpkin to make the stem.

Cut and Paste Pumpkin

Skills:  scissor practice, gluing, letter P

Print out or draw a pumpkin pattern onto white paper.  Cut out small rectangular/square pieces of orange paper and a few brown pieces.

Directions:  Cut out the pumpkin

Glue the pumpkin to a colored piece of construction paper.

Glue the cut pieces of orange paper to the pumpkin.

Glue a couple pieces of cut, brown construction paper for the stem.

Write (or trace) the letter P above the finished pumpkin.

Paper Plate Pumpkin

Cut out the center of a small paper plate.  

Cut two leaves from green felt.  Twist 1/2 of a green chenille stem.  Use the other half to make the hanger for the pumpkin.  Punch a hole in the top of the plate and in the bottom of the leaves.

Directions:  paint the paper plate orange. When dry - string the chenille stems through the punched out holes in the leaves and through the paper plate.  Twist together to make the stem and hanger for the pumpkin plate.

Lego Painted Pumpkin

Cut out pumpkin pattern from white paper.

Directions:  Press a Lego into orange paint and then onto the pumpkin.  Continue until the pumpkin is covered.  Repeat with brown paint for the stem.

Pumpkin Learning Activities

Pumpkin Name Puzzles

Skills:  name writing, name recognition,  gluing

Cut out a pumpkin from orange paper. Draw sections onto the pumpkin and write your child's name.  I wrote Keely's name, but had Joey work on tracing his name.  Cut the sections - or have your child cut the sections.  Lay out the sections in order and then mix them up!  Have your child find each letter in his name and place them in order.  Then glue the puzzle onto another piece of paper.

Pumpkin Letter Matching

Skills:  Upper and Lowercase letter Matching, letter identification

Cut out small pumpkins shapes from orange paper.  Write a matching upper and lowercase letter on each pumpkin.  Cut each pumpkin apart separating the upper and lowercase letters.  

Directions:  Glue the matching  upper and lowercase letters to a piece of paper.

Pumpkin Name Tracing

Skills:  name writing, name identification, gluing

Cut out small, orange pumpkins and write the child's name, so they can trace over each letter.  

Directions:  Trace each letter.  Glue each pumpkin onto a strip of paper to spell out your name.

Pumpkin Find the Letter Pp

Skills:  letter P, letter identification, following directions

I found this cute Pumpkin and letter P activity at 3boysandadog.com  Here is the direct Link.

Directions:  Find the P p's the page.  (circle the P's, use a dot dabber, or use finger in an ink pad)

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.