Pre-K Winter Activities

No Prep Winter Literacy! Boost word recognition and fine motor skills with this engaging cut-and-paste shape activity! This hands-on resource is a fun way to learn and review the names of nine seasonal images.

Theme:

Winter Woodland Animals

Students cut out the dashed line boxes and paste each label with the correct picture. There are nine in all. Choose from color or black & white for students to color! The answer key can also teach and reinforce the words to help students match the correct answers.

Resource Benefits:

• Fine motor skill development: Strengthening small muscles in the hands and fingers, essential for writing and other tasks.
• Hand-eye coordination: Improving the ability to coordinate visual perception with motor actions.
• Problem-solving skills: Developing the ability to plan and execute tasks.
• Following directions: Strengthening listening and comprehension skills.
• Building confidence: Fostering a sense of accomplishment as students complete tasks.
• Academic skill development: Reinforcing multiple learning concepts.

Cut-and-paste activities offer a multitude of benefits for young learners!

❄️ You're invited to the Winter Wonderland category! ❄️ Do you want to create lots of festive winter memories with your students this year? You'll find a growing collection of seasonal printables like music, writing, and fun activities for your classroom or homeschool in one shop section - and we're always adding more!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

LEAP YEAR DAY 2024 CROWNS & HATS CRAFTS ACTIVITIES - Leap Year Day Crowns are a fun morning work craft to start off your special day! You'll have 8 versions of hats crowns to choose from and various back straps if needed. Find more LEAP YEAR DAY activities in my store!

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With these games, your little detectives will have fun solving mysteries while they are using deductive reasoning skills. (This is an important pre-math skill.) These logic games help boost brain activity, improve concentration and enhance memory.

There are five different versions of each game so that you can play multiple times or differentiate for your learners. The games can be printed in grayscale or in color, or can be viewed on a screen or whiteboard. Also included in each game is a printable page that students can color.

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This Fun Penguin Craft Bundle is the ultimate winter activity pack for your students ! It includes a variety of fun and educational crafts:

• Penguin Hat Crown Craft,
• Editable Winter Penguin Name puzzles,
• Penguin Craft Activity

Perfect for preschool and kindergarten, these activities encourage creativity, fine motor skills, and early literacy and math practice. Great for Ideal for winter-themed lessons, bulletin boards, or a festive classroom display, this bundle offers everything you need to bring the spirit of winter into your classroom!

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• Editable Fall Apple Name puzzles
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• Pumpkin Life Cycle Craft

Explore creativity all year long with the Seasons Play Dough Bundle! This bundle includes four seasonal sets of play dough mats, each designed to capture the essence of fall, winter, spring, and summer while building fine motor skills.

Contents:
This seasonal bundle includes:

• 48 Seasonal Play Dough Mats: Twelve unique, themed images per season, such as:

  • Fall: Acorn, bat, candy corn, and more.
  • Winter: Gingerbread man, gift, mitten, etc.
  • Spring: Butterfly, chick, flowers, and more.
  • Summer: Crab, pineapple, popsicle, and others.

• Themed Backgrounds: Each mat is styled with a seasonally appropriate background.

• "I Can" Statements: Self-guiding statements encourage independence in building.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
This Seasons Play Dough Bundle delivers year-round engagement that’s easy to implement. Students get excited about each season’s unique imagery, while “I Can” statements guide them through fine motor practice. These mats are easy to print and laminate, perfect for repeated use. Great for sensory learning, these mats enhance motor skills, creativity, and seasonal awareness.

Features:

• Comprehensive Seasonal Bundle: All four seasons in one resource!
• Fine Motor Skill Development: Engages students in shaping, rolling, and sculpting play dough.
• Reusable Design: Print, laminate, and enjoy season after season.
• Self-Guided: Each mat’s “I Can” statement promotes independence.

Who This Product Is For:

1. Early Childhood Educators: Perfect for seasonal stations and hands-on activities.
2. Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers: Great for developing fine motor skills through seasonal play.
3. Homeschooling Families: An engaging and easy-to-use resource for year-round learning.
4. Occupational Therapists: Ideal for fine motor skill practice in a fun, sensory-based format.
5. Parents and Caregivers: Great for home activities, providing year-long entertainment and skill-building.

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Work on fine motor skills with a fall twist by using this free kindergarten resource! Students use their hands to tear pieces of paper and glue on to the picture for a December, winter or holiday craft! Perfect for a reading station or center, craft time or to use with a thematic winter unit.

Tear art makes great classroom decor all while having fun working on those fine motor skills!

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Have fun counting with Winter Adapted Books. Work with your students on on counting #1-10, 1-1 correspondence, and number identification with this set of four books. These interactive books provide opportunities for students to identify and utilize numbers on each page. These books require some prep work; however, once made, you can use them year after year! They utilize limited color ink for easy printing.

Book 1: Counting Snowmen: Students will count to 10 with some adorable snowmen.

Book 2: Counting snowflakes: Count the plentiful snowflakes in this adapted book!

Book 3: Snowball Fight - Colorful monsters are in a snowball fight! Have students count how many snowballs the monsters have.

Book 4: Gingerbread House - Count the colorful candy on the gingerbread house.

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Are you looking for a fun way to encourage social emotional development, support your students' mental health and emotional well-being this winter season? These hands-on holiday play mats and worksheets provide meaningful opportunities to learn, identify, discuss, and practice feelings / emotions through play!

✅Includes: snowmen, reindeer, penguins, huskies, yetis, polar bears

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✏️It includes 32 differentiated play dough mats (available in color or black & white)!

✏️Save time! Simply print, laminate, or place in a page protector folder and add play dough! Students may also use a dry-erase pen to trace, write, and draw!

✏️It also includes 40 feelings /emotions vocabulary cards and 17 differentiated pages of worksheets.

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⭐️Great for literacy centers, sub tub, individual, small group, partner work, early finishers, or extra practice at home for your preschool, kindergarten,1st grade or 2nd grade learners!

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✅Includes (54 pages):

☑ Trace and draw (20 pages)

☑ Write and draw (6 pages)

☑ Draw (6 pages)

☑ Feelings vocabulary flashcards (5 pages - 40 cards)

☑ "Holiday Feelings!" worksheets - (5 pages)

☑ "How are You?" worksheets - (12 pages)

✅Bonus: (54 pages)

☑ Black & white set (54 pages)

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✅Feelings included: (19 feelings)

☑ afraid

☑ bored

☑ calm

☑ confused

☑ curious

☑ disgusted

☑ excited

☑ frustrated

☑ happy

☑ jealous

☑ lonely

☑ loved

☑ nervous

☑ proud

☑ sad

☑ sorry

☑ surprised

☑ tired

☑ worried

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Looking for a fun way for kids to work on counting skills this winter?

This Winter I Spy Game is perfect for classroom activities or at-home fun! This printable seek-and-find worksheet is filled with seasonal designs that challenge kids to find and count objects, making learning feel like play.

Here’s how you can make the most of this I Spy Game in your classroom or homeschool:

Morning Warm-Up Activity: Start the day with a fun, low-prep task by using it as a “bell ringer.” It’s a great way to help students settle in and get focused right from the start.

Counting & Math Practice: Let students count and record the objects they find, naturally building their basic counting and early math skills. You can even extend the activity by having students create simple addition or subtraction problems based on their findings.

Focus and Observation Exercise: Use it as a calm-down activity to help students practice visual discrimination and focus on details. This makes it ideal for students who need a bit of extra help sharpening their observation skills.

Group or Partner Activity: Have students work in pairs or small groups to complete the I Spy game. It’s a fun way to build teamwork and communication skills while keeping students engaged.

Winter Brain Break: Use it as a quick “brain break” or reward activity. It provides a structured yet fun break that keeps kids focused and excited without disrupting your classroom flow.

This Winter Seek and Find Printable worksheet is a flexible, engaging resource to add to your seasonal toolkit, perfect for mixing fun with learning!

Want more I Spy seasonal games? Check out the I Spy Game bundle!

What’s included:

1 file with 2 PDf pages

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Looking for a fun winter handwriting activity? These sentence-building worksheets include writing paper with picture boxes and will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently. Further, students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color winter-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

❄️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

❄️ This resource includes:

   ✏ 10 winter-themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

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Sentence Building Writing Worksheets | Finger Spacing Tool | Full-Year BUNDLE

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Rhyming is an essential skill to teach young learners as they begin the process of learning to read. My experiences in the classroom have shown me that rhyming can be really tricky for students to understand. This bundle contains 20 (twenty) learning games that allow your students to have hands on experiences with rhyming and have so much fun they won't even know they're learning!

This bundle includes:

• 4 Seasons of I Spy a Rhyme
• 4 Seasons of Let's Rhyme Card Game
• 4 Seasons of Rhyming Memory
• 4 Seasons Roll and Rhyme Game
• 4 Seasons of Rhyming Bingo

When and how to use it:

• Small group work
• Learning Centers
• Individual Learning
• One on One guided lessons

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Snow Globe Shape Book * Primary Handwriting Lines Writing Winter January Journal
Snow Globe Shape Book

Includes a front cover, middle section with primary handwriting lines, and back cover. (3 pages total)

Print as many middle pages as needed for your book. Use the back side(s) for illustrations. Decorate, cut out, and assemble your book!

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Shape Books x 12 * Primary Handwriting Lines * Writing Holidays Seasons Monthly
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Here is a free coloring page from inside our first hard-copy workbook – a mandala! Mandalas provide a way to relax and find focus. Enjoy our free printable and check out our workbook and other products here on TeachShare or on our website.

Need a low prep, engaging math Counting Bears activity? This bundle of Counting Bears printable emergent readers will last you ALL YEAR LONG! They help students practice math skills. This theme is perfect for teaching all year!

This Year-Long Bundle includes:

8 books with multiple versions for easy differentiation and multiple days of practice

- I See Bears (I see 2 blue bears.) Counting numbers 1-10 and color words

- There Are Bears at the Park (How many bears are there? There are __ bears at the park.) counting and composing numbers 10-20

- I Can Count By 10s Bear Shop (There are 30 bears in the shop.) counting by 10s to 120

- Making 10 with Bears (There are 7 bears on the train. We need ____ more bears to make 10.) includes numbers 0-10 and utilizes a ten frame

- How Many Bears In The Cave? (There are 2 bears in the cave and 2 bears outside of the cave. How many bears total are there?) addition word problems within 10

- Bears on the Bus (There are 5 bears on the bus. Then 4 bears get off the bus. How many bears are left on the bus?) subtraction word problems within 10

- Comparing Numbers With Bears (There are 3 pink bears. There are 5 green bears. Compare the numbers and drag the correct symbol) includes numbers 1-20

- Where is the Bear? (Where is the bear? The bear is between the cups.)

includes: over, above, below, under, next to, beside, between, on top of, in front of, behind, close to, far from, inside, and near

Each reader has:

• an unnumbered black and white PDF version with 2 books to a page

Plus:

• A Reference page to see which skills and sight words are addressed in each book
• A Parents Tips page

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Make your Winter Party Games fun with this engaging, hands-on pin the bow(nose) on the penguin making activity! This includes 1 low-prep pin the bow(nose) on the penguin template perfect for having fun with the winter pin the bow(nose) on the penguin. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make this activity perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in a fun game of pin the tail on the donkey/aka pin the bow(nose) on the penguin by cutting out the red noses, taping the penguin on the wall, blindfolding a child and letting them see how close they get to the penguin nose. Students will love playing pin the nose on the penguin together by using their problem solving skills & guessing through this fun activity, and won't even realize how much they're having fun! Use it after read a story about penguin or sing a song about penguin. You can even print out multiple penguin for your students to glue on a bow(nose) and decorate.

Here's what you'll get:

• a template of a penguin to tape on the wall

• enough bow (nose) cutouts for your entire class

• easy to follow directions

Your students will playing the pin the nose on the reindeer game with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and having a great time together!

This activity uses materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes a printable template to create the whole activity.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the penguin page, bow(nose) page, cut out the bows(noses), gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class!
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→ Pin the Nose on the Reindeer Game
→ Preschool/Kindergarten Learning Packet
→ Halloween Build Your Own Bat, Cat, Frankenstein, Pumpkin, Zombie, Scarecrow...
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This Kindergarten Winter Patterns Activity makes the perfect Math Center for your Kindergarten students this Winter season. This winter patterns unit is packed with fun and engaging centers and activities that will teach your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten students all about patterns. Learners will identify, build, extend and problem solve in 6 hands-on patterns centers involving AB, ABC, AAB and ABB patterns.

Perfect for use during kindergarten math centers or with small groups of students, this Kindergarten winter patterns centers and activities are simple to prepare and can be used again and again. This unit contains 6 patterns centers for use with manipulatives you already have in your classroom (snap cubes and counting bears).

The activities come in various levels (4 pattern sequences) so you can easily differentiate for your students and your classroom. The activities come with a page of instructions along with a photo of it in action so teachers know exactly how to use the center and activity.

⭐ This printable is also part of the following bundles:

Kindergarten Winter Math and Literacy Centers Bundle.

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What is included in this Winter Patterns Math Center for Kindergarten resource?

All the activities in this resource cover 4 pattern sequences; AB, ABC, AAB and ABB. This allows for differentiation depending on the learner.

The 6 Pattern Activities included in this unit are:

1. Label and Identify the Patterns (24 cards; available in color and BW)
2. Copy and Build the Pattern (24 cards; available in color)
3. Extend the Pattern (24 cards; available in color)
4. What is Missing in the Pattern? (24 patterns, available in color)
5. Build the Pattern (4 pattern cards, winter objects picture cards; available in color and BW)
6. Patterns Worksheet (black and white)

How do learners complete this Winter Kindergarten Pattern Math Center?

• Label and Identify the Patterns: Learners will label the patterns using A, B or C. They will identify the pattern and clip it using a wooden clothespin.
• Copy and Build the Pattern: Learners use circle counters, counting bears or snap cubes and place them onto the snap cubes based on the color to build the different patterns. They will then identify and clip the pattern.
• Extend the Pattern: Learners identify the pattern and use manipulatives to continue and complete the pattern.
• What is Missing? Learners use manipulatives to fill in the missing piece in the pattern. They need to recognize and identify the pattern first.
• Build the Pattern: Learners will use the winter picture cards to build the patterns. Includes 4 pattern cards, and winter objects.
• Patterns Worksheet: Learners will color in the snap cubes to match the given pattern.

Preparing this Winter Kindergarten Math Patterns Center:

This is a low-prep activity, which makes it easy for teachers to prep!

• Print the pattern pages and laminate.
• Cut apart to create the different pattern cards.

How to best use this AB AAB ABC ABB Patterns Activity for Kindergarten:

• Explore during morning work 
• Assign as supplemental math centers 
• Implement these centers in an independent way or use them with small-groups.

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Engage your preschoolers with this fun and educational sorting activity that helps them differentiate between autumn and winter. This activity includes a variety of colorful images representing both seasons, designed to develop children's understanding of seasonal changes while enhancing their fine motor skills.

Features:

Seasonal Pictures: A set of vibrant images that clearly depict autumn and winter elements, such as leaves, pumpkins, snowflakes, and mittens.

Cut and Paste Activity: Children will enjoy cutting out the pictures and sorting them into the correct seasonal categories, which fosters hands-on learning and coordination.

Educational Focus: Helps young learners recognize and categorize seasonal items, promoting cognitive development and seasonal awareness.

PreK and Preschool Friendly: The activity is designed specifically for PreK and preschool-aged children, with simple, clear images and easy-to-handle sizes.

This activity provides a delightful way for young children to explore the differences between autumn and winter while developing essential skills. Perfect for teachers and parents looking for an engaging, educational tool.

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Save yourself time and lots of repeating by hanging up the "Getting Dressed in Winter Gear" poster in your classroom or home. Have your students practice the order of the steps by connecting the steps to the gear or doing a cut and paste activity. Read and trace in the emergent reader as a class or individually. Write the room to get familiar with winter gear.

Included:

Classroom posters (with and without scarf step)

Write the Room cards and recording sheets (tracing and writing)

Cut and Paste (with and without scarf step)

Matching (with and without scarf step)

Emergent Readers (tracing, non-tracing, First-Then-Next-Etc, 1.-2.-3., with and without scarf step)

Snow Globe Craft for Kids: A Fun Winter Activity

Looking for a fun and creative winter activity for your kids? Our Snow Globe Craft is the perfect solution! This easy-to-follow craft involves coloring, cutting, and gluing simple pieces to create a beautiful snow globe. We've included both color and black and white templates to suit your child's preference. This engaging activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary students. Let's get crafty and embrace the winter wonderland!

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25 unique seasonal cards to make and give for the Christmas/holiday season. Non-Religious and religious cards to meet a variety of demands.

Includes:

Merry Christmas

Seasons Greetings!

Happy Holidays

Just believe...

Begin Anew...

Thank you

You've been nice!

A Christmas Message

Christmas is for Giving

Have a cruisin' holiday

Remembering Loved Ones

and much more...

Inspirational messages will encourage students to promote compassion, giving, and kindness during the holiday season.