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.

Christmas!!

Christmas!

Christmas Crafts

Thumbprint Reindeer Ornaments

Paint thumb brown

Press painted thumb onto a small ball ornament

Let dry, add antlers and eyes with permanent marker

Use glue to make a nose and sprinkle red glitter to make Rudolph!

Craft Stick Sled Ornaments

Lay out 5 craft sticks side by side in the shape of a sled

Hot glue 2 more craft sticks across the laid-out craft sticks to create supports

For the slid runners, lay an craft stick on its thin edge so it rests on the supports. 

Hot glue it into place.  Repeat with the last craft stick

Decorate the sled

Attach a chenille stem to the sled for hanging

The bottom of the sled

Reindeer Cookies

Ingredients:  Nutter Butter Cookies, pretzels, chocolate chips red M&M's, frosting

Break pretzels to make the antlers

Use frosting to stick on the antlers, eyes and nose

Addie and the Reindeer Cookies for her 4K snack!

Beaded Wreath Ornaments

String green beads onto a red pipe cleaner - we used a sparkly red pipe cleaner!

Form into a circle and twist shut

Form a bow with the pipe cleaner ends

Hand and Foot Print Santa's Sleigh

Paint a foot with green paint

Press onto the top corner of a piece of white paper

Paint a hand brown and press on the paper 3 times.

Let dry and draw on the details!

Handprint Snowmen Ornament

Paint hand and press onto a colored glass ball

Let dry and draw on faces, hats and arms!

Pom-Pom Wreath

Glue pom-poms onto a circle shaped piece of tag board

Glue on a red bow.

Extra Large Gingerbread People!

I cut 2 gingerbread figures from large pieces of the brown, packing paper from my

Online Christmas Packages!

I then gave the 2 girls a bunch of supplies and let them go crazy! 

I actually think they were pretty tame with their decorating - but I did have to scrub my floor when they were finished. :)

Decorating!

Christmas Tree Math
Skills: math, addition, number writing, counting
I created a document with blank Christmas Trees and easy word problems. 
The word problems involved adding two different colors of balls to each tree and then writing the total on the line. 

Addie writing the total sum

Her completed Christmas Tree Math Sheet

Our Little Pine Tree

Decorate a foam tree with beads, sequins, gems . . .

Type and print the following poem:

Here’s our little pine tree,
Tall and straight
Let’s find the things
So we can decorate.
First we want to put
A star on top!

Then we must be careful
The balls don’t drop.

Hang on all the tinsel

Shiny and bright

Put on the canes

And hook them just right.

Finally put some presents

For you and for me.

And we'll be ready

With our Christmas tree.

Glue the completed tree and the printed poem to a piece of red construction paper

My Little Reindeer

Print a picture of your child

Cut around the picture and glue it to a piece of construction paper

Paint both hands brown and press them onto the paper to make antlers

Add glue to the nose and sprinkle with red glitter

Add bows and names to complete

Christmas Cutting Practice Sheets 

Skills:  cutting, pasting, matching

Cut the trees on the dotted lines

Match the trees and glue them to a piece of paper

Here is the link to the Christmas Theme Cut It Out Pack

 Cutting

Pasting and Matching

The Finished Product

 Candy Cane Rudolph

Cut a candy cane shape out of white paper

Cut red strips

Trace hands on brown construction paper - cut the hands out

Directions: Glue red stripes to the candy cane

Glue the candy cane to a piece of construction paper

Glue the hands/antlers to the candy cane

Glue on a googly eye and a glitter nose

Thanksgiving Fun!

Thanksgiving Fun

Projects
Circle Handprint Turkey
Cut out a larger circle from brown construction paper and a smaller circle from tan construction paper
Cut out an orange beak and feet, and a red "gobbler"
Paint a hands with different colored paint and press around the paper
Let dry and assemble the turkey - adding googly eyes
Glue the turkey in the middle of the hand prints
Cut around the turkey

 

Turkey Clothespin

Glue on googly eyes and an orange bead - for the beak

Place a small amount of  glue in the clothespin and stick 3-4 feather in the opening

 

 Paper Plate Name Turkey

Cut a brown body and an orange beak and different colored feathers -enough for each child's name

Directions:

Color a small paper plate brown

Glue the body onto the plate

Glue the beak onto the turkey and draw on eyes

Glue the feathers to the back of the plate

Write your name on the feathers - 1 letter on each feather

 

Plastic Egg Turkey

Cut a beak and gobbler from yellow and red felt

Directions:

Glue a matching color pom pom on one half of a plastic Easter egg

Glue on the felt beak, "gobbler" and eyes

On the back, glue on 4-5 feathers

 

Tissue Paper Turkey

Cut a paper plate in half

Cut pieces of colored tissue paper into squares

Cut a circle from brown, craft foam, a triangle and feet from orange craft foam, and a "gobbler" from read craft foam

Directions:

Assemble the turkey

Glue the tissue paper squares around the edge of the 1/2 paper plate

Staple the assembled turkey to the plate

 

Pumpkin Pie Magnet

Trace the lid from an old soup can onto orange craft foam -make sure the lid doesn't have sharp edges.

Cut a triangle out from the orange circle.

Directions:

Glue the orange craft foam to the inside of the lid

Hot glue on a tan chenille stem - this is the pie's crust

Cut a square from a white coffee filter and accordion fold it.  Glue it on top of the pie!

Attach a magnet to the back.

 

 

Learning Activities

 Counting Feathers

Skills:  Math - number recognition, counting, one-to-one correspondence

Cut out "turkeys" from brown construction paper and draw on eyes and beaks

Write 1 number on each turkey along with the corresponding number of dots

Cut out different colored feathers from construction paper

Glue the turkeys to construction paper (leave a gap at the top, so you are able to add feathers later)

Directions: 

Say the number and count out feathers to match the number.  Glue the correct amount of feathers to the matching turkey.

 

Turkey Feathers - Number Order

 Skills:  Math - number recognition, counting, number order

I created this activity and printed it off for Addie to complete.

I cut out the feathers for her and then she put them in order!

 

 

 

Gobble, CVC Word Game!

Skills:  Reading - CVC words, sight words, reading

Here is the link to this great CVC word game

 

 

The Pairs 

 

Thanksgiving Numbers Clip-It!

Skills:  Math - number recognition, counting

Here is the link to this cute Thanksgiving themed counting activity

 

 

 

Halloween Fun!

Halloween Fun!

Projects

Handprint Spider

Paint child's hand black

Press onto 5x7 piece of orange construction paper

Let dry - add googly eyes and spider webs!

Book Connection:

Spooky Bunny Tales - The Blue Tarantula

Max & Ruby Three Stories in One

 

Witches Broomsticks

Press a pretzel stick into the middle/bottom part of a Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

Book Connection:

It's Halloween Night

By: Jennifer O'Connell

 

Mosaic Candy Corn

Draw a candy corn shape on black construction paper with white chalk

Separate the candy corn into 3 sections

Cut white, orange and yellow paper into squares

Glue the colored squares onto the paper

 

Square Monsters!

Cut a green square  and 2 rectangles -for the legs from green construction paper

Cut two squares, a skinny rectangle and a zigzag for the bolts, hair and nose piece

Cut two rectangles for the feet

Glue the feet to the square

Glue the other pieces to the Monster!

Draw on two scars and two eyes

Book Connection:

Inside a House That is Haunted

By:  Alyssa Satin Capucilli

 

Coffee Filter Pumpkin

Paint a coffee filter with orange water color paint.

Let dry - Glue a green stem to the top!

Handprint Jack-O-Lanterns

Trace hand on orange construction paper

Cut it out and draw a face on the hand print

Glue on a green stem

Candy Corn Footprint

Paint the bottom of one foot white, orange and yellow.

Press the foot onto a piece of construction paper

 

Learning Activities

Candy Corn Number Match

Skills: number recognition, counting, number words,

Cut out pieces to candy corn - white, orange and yellow

Write the numeral on the white piece, corresponding dot/dots on the orange piece and the number word on the yellow piece

Directions: 

 Match the three pieces of the candy corn and glue them on the black construction paper

 

Halloween Shape Sort

Skills:  Shapes, gluing, name writing

Create a document with 3 circles and 3 triangles

On the side of the document copy 3  jack-o-lanterns and 3 candy corn

Directions: 

Cut out the jack-o-lanterns and candy corn

Glue the pieces into the correct shape

Halloween Counting Book

Skills:  number writing, counting, reading, name writing, coloring

Here is the link for this cute Halloween Counting Book

 

At the Pumpkin Patch Beginning Sounds Sort

Skills:  beginning sounds. cutting, pasting, letter recognition

 

Here is the link to this great beginning sounds activity.