New and Fun Printable Winter Activities for Preschoolers
Looking for engaging printable winter activities for preschoolers to add to your winter preschool theme ideas? These winter-themed activities are perfect for keeping little ones busy while they learn important skills like counting, matching, fine motor development, and letter recognition.
With easy-to-use printables, these activities are ideal for any winter unit or snowy day in the classroom or at home. Keep reading to discover six fun and educational winter activities that will enhance your preschool lesson plans this season.
Winter is the perfect time to bring seasonal fun into your preschool activities!
As temperatures drop, printable winter activities for preschoolers offer a simple and engaging way to incorporate winter themes into your curriculum. These activities focus on essential preschool skills, from early math concepts to fine motor practice, all while keeping the learning experience fun and interactive.
Whether you’re planning for a snowy day indoors activities or adding to your winter theme ideas, these printables make it easy to provide hands-on learning that captures the spirit of the season.
Why Teach a Winter Preschool Theme
With a winter theme, children can connect their learning to the changes they observe in the world around them, such as colder temperatures, snowy landscapes, and winter animals.
This theme also provides an opportunity to introduce a variety of seasonal activities that build essential skills in math, literacy, science, and fine motor development. Plus, winter-themed activities encourage question asking and hands-on exploration, making learning feel exciting and relevant for preschoolers.
What if it Doesn’t Snow Where I Live?
If it doesn’t snow where you live, you can still create a fun and engaging winter theme in your preschool classroom!
Use creative sensory activities, pretend play, and visual aids to give kids the feel of winter. For example, use cotton balls, white felt, or artificial snow for sensory bins, or incorporate “snow” with shaving cream painting activities. You can also bring in stories, videos, and photos of snowy landscapes and winter animals to spark their curiosity.
By focusing on seasonal changes like colder weather, winter clothing, and animal behavior (like in our hibernation printable activities), you can help kids connect with the theme even without real snow.
Printable Winter Activities for Preschoolers
These printables consist of three letter activities and three math activities. You only need a few extra materials that I’m sure you already have on hand.
What’s Included
This winter small pack features six educational winter-themed activities, striking a perfect balance between fun and learning.
Materials
- winter theme printables (found at the end of this post)
- Dice
- Math counters (or floral pebbles or buttons, even)
- Pencil and crayons
Printable Winter Theme Matching Game
One of my favorite activities to add to any preschool theme is a good old-fashioned matching game. Matching games have many benefits, like improving concentration, increasing attention to detail, training visual memory and visual discrimination, expanding vocabulary…I could go on.
Matching games are also helpful for developing pre-literacy skills because they require visual discrimination skills
And there are so many ways to play, too!
You can play a traditional game of concentration, or you can play the cards out face up and ask your preschooler to find matches that way, too. You can tape one set to the wall for some gross motor fun, or play a “hide and seek” version around the room.
Prewriting Practice Cards for Winter Theme
Nothing motivates a developing writer like friendly themed pictures on their practice sheets. These pre-writing strokes tracing sheets work all the line sets needed to form letters and numbers, without tracing actual numbers or letters.
This means your preschooler can practice the prewriting lines she needs the most, without having to struggle through what she isn’t ready for.
You can cut apart the prewriting practice cards to make individual cards, or leave them as a whole sheet and place them in a dry erase pocket. If you cut them apart, punch a hole in the corner and add them to a binder ring.
Winter Letter Matching Puzzles
These letter matching puzzles help your preschooler identify and match upper and lower case letters, which is an important precursor to learning to read. The upper case letter is in one corner and the lower case letter in the bottom corner, with a straight line diving the two, making them quick and easy to prep.
And, this alphabet puzzle has three different color backgrounds, so if you have a preschooler just learning their letters, you can pull out one color set at a time to make the alphabet a little less intimidating.
I Spy Winter Games for Preschoolers
I love I Spy games, and I think they are an underutilized tool in early childhood education. Like matching games, they also work on attention to detail and visual discrimination, but many educators find I Spy games to be a powerful tool to teach language and speech development, too!
This set comes with four versions. Three of the versions have winter pictures and the lats, pictured above, is a word version; a challenge for your older preschoolers.
Preschool Graphing Activities for Winter Preschool Theme
This board game has preschoolers practicing counting and graphing, and throws in a little logic and strategy, too!
Players move around the board in any direction they choose, collecting token to fill their graph. The key is to land on the pictures that will build one line of their graph the fastest, making them the winner!
This game can be played independently, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even play this like a cooperative game where everyone shares a single game piece but graph their own cards.
Winter Number Tracing and Counting Cards
These snowflake number tracing cards can be added to your math center or your preschool writing center. The number of snowflakes on each card corresponds to the numeral on the card, of course. But as my daughter would point out, they must be real snowflakes because each one has exactly six points!
You can cut apart these cards and laminate them, or place them in a dry erase pocket.
Get Your Winter Theme Preschool Printables Here
Think these printables would fit in well with your winter theme lesson plans? Just click the image or the link below to grab them.
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FAQ About These Printable Winter Activities
These activities are tailored for preschoolers, typically ages 3-5, but they can be easily adapted for younger toddlers or kindergarteners.
The activities focus on developing early literacy, math, fine motor, and sensory skills, as well as encouraging creativity and winter-themed exploration.
Absolutely! While they are ideal for preschoolers, toddlers and kindergarteners can also benefit from these activities with slight adjustments as needed.
Yes, the activities are created to support foundational skills that align with early learning standards in literacy, math, and motor development.
Free winter Printables for Preschool
These winter printables are quick to prepare and are designed for independent work, small groups, or add them to your preschool centers.
- Winter Patterning Cards
- Snowman Line Tracing Mats
- Snowman Ten Frame Counting Cards
- Printable Letter Recognition Mats for Winter Theme
- Winter Coloring Worksheets
- Winter Counting Puzzles
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.