Avoid cabin fever this season, and keep your kids learning and playing with these fun winter activity sheets! Whether for home or to use in the classroom, here are over 20 printable winter activities for you, including winter games, coloring pages STEM activities, Math, art and crafts and more. Check out all our free winter printables and winter worksheets below!
Enjoy Winter Printable Activities This Season
As winter wraps its icy embrace around the world, transforming landscapes into snowy wonderlands, it’s the perfect time to add a touch of warmth and creativity to the season. Here’s our collection of printable winter activities designed to bring joy and entertainment to kids during the frosty days ahead.
Winter printables cater to various ages and interests, from snowflake coloring pages and winter playdough mats to winter STEM challenges.
Why Pair Worksheets with Hands-on Activities?
You can do both! Read on to understand why:
Pairing a printable sheet with a hands-on project enhances the learning experience for kids by combining visual and tactile elements. While printable sheets offer structured activities and educational content, hands-on projects provide a kinesthetic and interactive dimension to the learning process.
This combination engages multiple senses, reinforcing concepts and promoting a deeper understanding. The printable sheet serves as a guide or starting point, offering instructions, exercises, or visuals.
At the same time, the hands-on project allows kids to apply what they’ve learned in a practical context. This approach fosters creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills as kids actively manipulate materials, experiment, and create.
The synergy between printable sheets and hands-on projects makes learning more enjoyable and caters to diverse learning styles, ensuring a well-rounded educational experience for young learners.
Get started with free Winter Coding Pictures.
Free Winter Homeschool Planning Guide
Plan your winter lessons with this helpful guide! Perfect for winter homeschool plans but also usable in the classroom!
What’s the Reason for the Seasons?
Start here with this free four seasons pack and learn all about why we have a cold winter season! You’ll also find a free homeschool planning guide to the seasons.
Free Winter Printables
Click on the activities below to learn more about each one, and to access the printables relevant to that activity.
Winter Arts & Crafts
Grandma Moses Winter Scene: Create a fun winter scene inspired by the famous artist Grandma Moses. Add your baking soda and glue “snow” with our printable instructions.
Seurat Dot Painting: This winter scene is made with dots inspired by the famous artist George Seurat. Free printable included.
Starry Night: Have kids make their very own Vincent Van Gogh snowy night painting!
Pollock Splatter Painting: Create a snowstorm indoors with this fun and easy drip painting snowflake art—simple winter art for kids inspired by famous artist Jackson Pollock.
Snowflake Stamping – Get stamping this winter with our gorgeous DIY snowflake stamp. Great for fine motor skills and learning about shapes, this printable snowflake craft is sure to please!
3D Snowman: Print out the 3D snowman template, color and cut out to make this delightful 3D snowman craft.
Picasso Snowman: Artists of all ages can enjoy a little Picasso with this free snowman printable! It doesn’t have to be neat and tidy. Just have fun!
Winter Self Portrait: This fun Frida Kahlo winter art project is inspired by the artist’s own work! Use the free printable and follow the instructions to helps kids of all ages create their very own masterpiece!
Matisse Bird Collage: What do birds do in winter? When the birds head south, make your own winter collage of birds inspired by artist, Henri Matisse.
Draw A Snowflake: Learn how to draw a snowflake step by step. It’s all about the symmetry! Plus, we also include some fun snowflake facts for kids and a bonus snowflake coloring page.
Snowflake Coloring Pages: These easy printable snowflake coloring pages below are sure to please the winter fan.
Snowflake Zentangle: Draw zentangle patterns onto a printable snowflake template using colored markers or art supplies.
3D Paper Snowflakes: Can you think of a way to make a 3D snowflake from paper? Look no further than our 3D paper snowflakes. All you need to get started is paper, scissors, and our free printable 3D snowflake template.
Printable Snowflake Templates: Learn how to make snowflakes with these super easy paper snowflake pattern templates. Find out how a snowflake forms and what makes each one unique.
Winter Mittens Activity – Explore colors, simple science, and fine motor skills with these printable mittens outline mats for preschool and kindergarten.
Polar Bear Puppet Craft – Learning about amazing Arctic animals? Then treat the kids to a fun winter craft with this easy to make polar bear puppets!
Winter STEM
Hibernation Activities: Learn about hibernating animals with a free mini pack.
Penguin Activities: Learn about penguins with these fun printable activities.
Reindeer Facts & Activities – Learn all about these amazing Arctic animals and print out our free Name the Body Part reindeer worksheet.
Pine Tree Life Cycle: Investigate the life cycle of a pine tree. Set up a pine cone investigation and learn about the parts of a pinecone for quick biology this winter season.
Groundhog Day STEM Challenges: These Groundhog Day STEM cards are fantastic building challenges focusing on one of winter’s “special” days, February 2nd or Groundhog Day!
Groundhog Day Puppets: Make a groundhog puppet and explore the science of shadows!
LEGO Challenge Cards – Winter theme LEGO challenge cards are the perfect way to breathe new life into your building challenges this season.
Build 3D Marshmallow Shapes – Use our free printable shape cards to build 2D and 3D shapes with only toothpick and marshmallows.
Winter STEM Challenge Cards: If you want to keep the kids busy, these printable winter STEM challenge cards are the solution! With fun challenges that involve igloos, penguins, and ski jumps!
Snowflake STEM Challenge Cards: Learn about snowflakes and how they form. Then, use our free printable snowflake STEM challenge cards to build your own!
Winter Games and Math Activities
Winter Poll and Graph: Fun early elementary grades math activity for a snow day! What’s your favorite activity?
Winter Counting Snowflakes: Preschoolers will have a blast with math when the can explore it hands-on! Make it a game with dice!
Winter Counting Icicles Playdough Mats: Combine math and sensory play with playdough and these free winter math mats!
Winter Mitten Pack Printable Pack: Use these fun mitten worksheets for counting, colors and even science play this winter!
Winter Roll a Snowman Game: Grab this free printable game and go to town building snowmen indoors!
Winter Playdough Mats: Use store-bought or homemade playdough and loose parts with these free winter playdough mats!
Winter Bingo: Enjoy winter bingo and other great winter themed games in this free printable activity pack!
More Fun Winter Activities For Kids
- Indoor Activities For Kids
- Things To Do In The Snow
- Winter Solstice Activities
- Winter Science Experiments
- Snowflake Activities
- Snowman Activities
- Winter LEGO Building Ideas
- Winter Sensory Bins
Printable Winter STEM Pack
Even if you don’t live in a snowy winter climate, there are many ways to explore the season!
WHAT’S INSIDE? You’ll find 250+ Pages of Winter theme projects for science, STEM, and art!
- 25+ Winter science activities and STEM projects for kids that are easy to set up and fit into the time you have available even if it’s limited! NEW: Observation sheets for activities.
- Printable winter theme STEM activities that are simple but engaging for home or classroom. Perfect for K-2 and beyond and adaptable to many skill levels.
- Find simple background science explanations to share with kids while they explore hands-on and playful experiments, projects, and activities! Fun with physics, chemistry, design, engineering, and more!
- Easy to gather supplies makes these STEM activities ideal when you have limited resources available. Perfect for trying with groups of kids.
- Engaging winter STEM activities packed with winter theme activities, journal pages, and design process steps! Includes structure-building cards, STEM challenge cards, and screen-free coding activities.
- Fun snowflake theme STEM, including snowflake cutting templates, snowflake tinker cards, and snowflake science activities, including a snowflake formation cycle!
- Even more, winter printable sheets include hibernating animals sort, snow weather cycle, 5 senses for winter journal pages, thaumatrope patterns, and fun extras all with a winter theme!
