Are you looking for easy and fun winter activities for kids? Do you need kindergarten winter activities for kids when it’s cold and dreary outside? Check out some of our favorite winter ideas to help keep kids entertained during the winter!
Winter Activities For Kids: Snowman Art Projects
Melted snowman-cut-up 1-inch squares. Glue the squares to blue paper to make it look like the snowman melted. Add black circles for eyes, an orange triangle for a nose, and two black rectangles for arms.
Snowman-use basic shapes (circles, rectangles, and triangles) to make a snowman. Let kids choose the colors for the hat and scarf. Kids can also choose how many teeth their snowman has!
Cylinder snowman-make a cylinder, add an orange triangle for a nose, black eyes, and draw a mouth. Students add streamers. Hang from the ceiling!
Yeti-cut out a circle with some hair for the face. Add a blue oval and eyes. The mouth is a half circle with triangle teeth!
Winter Kindergarten Activities: Penguin Art Projects
Penguin hat-make a half circle from black paper. Add eyes and a beak. Use strips of paper to fit the hat to your head! And then look up the penguin dance by Jack Hartmann on YouTube!
Draw a penguin-draw a large hump and connect the bottom with a straight line. Add a small hump inside the large hump. Draw a circle on the top of the hump. Add a beak, eyes, wings and feet.
Symmetry penguin-this project always fascinates kids, and it’s a great way to teach about symmetry. Fold your paper in half lengthwise. Open the paper up. Squirt paint on ONE SIDE of the paper only. Fold the paper closed and rub. Open the paper to reveal your penguin. Discuss how it’s the same on both sides which means it has symmetry. This can be done to make a snowman, a snowflake, a Christmas tree, a butterfly, a heart, a shamrock, etc.
Disco ball-draw a circle on black paper. Have kids TEAR gray paper (no scissors!) using their fingers. Fill in the circle with the small pieces of torn paper. Add glitter!
Draw a narwhal-draw an upside-down raindrop. Add fins and a tail. Add a horn, eyes, and a mouth. Color. And look up the narwhal song on YouTube!
Fingerprint painting! Draw a polar bear (or snowflake, snowman, wreath, etc) and have kids use their fingerprints to fill in the picture!
Kindergarten Winter Activities: Snack Ideas
Another great way to keep kids entertained is by making snacks. Let the kids help assemble these easy snacks and enjoy them together!
Penguin snack-ice cream sandwich, Oreos, candy orange slices, orange jelly bean, and candy eyes!
Polar bear snack-vanilla ice cream cup, nilla wafers, and chocolate chips!
Marshmallow snowman-3 marshmallows, a Hershey kiss for a hat and we used icing pens to add details!
Melted snowman-vanilla pudding, candy corn, 3 M&Ms, chocolate chips, and pretzel sticks!
Winter Kindergarten Activities: Classroom Activities
Do you wanna build a snowman? Use a white trash can or a white bucket. Make the bucket look like Olaf! We used a marker to draw on the trash can! Use the game to practice any skills in the classroom. Simply write on white pieces of paper; students do the skill and then try to throw the snowball into Olaf. For example, write CVC words on the paper. The student reads the word, wads up the paper, and throws the snowball at Olaf.
Make snow slime! Glue, contact solution, baking soda, and glitter!
Green screen pictures! Use a green screen and a green screen app to make fun winter-themed pictures! We did these polar bear pictures when we studied polar bears! Kids LOVE these pictures. They’re so fun to make and make great winter bulletin board displays!
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