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8 Must-Try Winter Homeschool Ideas

November 19, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

I hate winter. Hate it.

I’m from Florida and, whenever the temperature dips below about 60, I’m done for the year. 

But when you’re homeschooling, you can’t just opt out of teaching during the cold. I know. I’ve tried it.

So that’s why I wanted to find some ways to make winter homeschooling fun!

These winter homeschool ideas are a great way to get the season off to a great start with your family! These are simple enough to do in one day.

Plus, they’re actually educational.

Fun Winter Homeschool Ideas to Try

Read on to see these tips for homeschooling during winter! And if you use a few, I’d love to know which ones were your favorites.

For more ways to teach about winter, don’t miss our All About Snowflakes printable unit or our list of must-read winter books for kids!

Feeling a bit chilly about homeschooling this winter? Get back into the swing of things with these must-try winter homeschool ideas!

8 Must-Try Winter Homeschool Ideas

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1. Teach about winter weather.  Take time to learn about the different types of snow and ice weather, as well as why temperatures turn colder during winter. Here’s a great explanation of why we have seasons, including winter.

2. Teach about emergency preparedness. You don’t have to be a prepper to prepare for winter. In fact, most of us already do it without realizing it. Teach a homeschool lesson on how to make sure your home is ready for colder weather and why it’s important.

3. Learn how and why snow melts. Snow is magic! It’s a cold solid that turns into water! This is the perfect way to teach about solids and liquids! You could even have them bring snow indoors to the sink and watch what happens when it melts.

Our Superhero States of Matter science lesson offers a way to teach this concept, even if you don’t have snow outside!

4. Get creative and build a snow castle or artistic snowman. Need a winter art lesson? Get outside! Not only will your kids get off the couch for a while, but by making a snow castle or artistic snowman, they’ll be learning art!

Don’t have snow in your area? Make our pinecone snowman craft instead!

Winter Playdough Mats for Kids

5. Make winter themed slime. Make a winter themed slime that includes fake snowflakes and teach your kids about the chemical reaction that makes the slime feel slimy.

To make wintery slime, change up our DIY Flubber recipe by skipping the food coloring and adding silver glitter!

6. Have a winter themed scavenger hunt. Bundle the kids up and send them outside with a list of things to find for a winter scavenger hunt. Be sure to include things such as pine cones, a tree branch without leaves, and other things that are common in winter.

Once they have found them all, have a discussion about how each item is different in winter and summer and what causes those changes.

7. Have a science lesson on how cold affects the human body. Most kids know they have to bundle up to go outside, but do they know why? Having a winter homeschool lesson about what cold weather can do to the body is the perfect way to teach them!

Here’s a great informative resource on the topic.

8. Make paper snowflakes. Snowflakes are amazing little things and your kids will love learning about them!

For an easy homeschool activity, pick up our Snowflake Math Factor craft and let kids cut out and decorate each snowflake before solving the math factor problems on each one. Be sure to hang them on the windows afterward!

Did you love these winter homeschool ideas? Try these other winter learning activities!

Teach children how to identify basic nouns, verbs, and adjectives with this winter-themed parts of speech sorting activity! Perfect for ELA over the winter!

Use these printable polar animal notebooking pages to learn about winter animals and the regions where they live!

These hibernation books for kids are awesome for studying how animals prepare for winter!

See more ways to teach about winter on my Winter Activities for Kids Pinterest board!

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50+ Free Winter Printables for Kids!

January 15, 2018 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

Free Polar Animal Notebooking Pages - Look! We're Learning!
Free Snowflake Counting 1-10 Flashcards - Look! We're Learning!
Free Arctic Animal Flash Cards - Look! We're Learning!
Free Snowflake Math Factor Printables - Look! We're Learning!
50 Free Winter Printables - Look! We're Learning!
Free Winter Printables for Kids - Look! We're Learning!
Keep learning all winter long with these fun and free winter printables for kids!

If you liked our 50 free fall printables list earlier this year, you’ll love this roundup of over 50 free winter printables for kids! These are perfect for homeschoolers or parents who want to help their kids keep learning during winter break!

In this list, you’ll find worksheets, coloring pages, word searches, drawing exercises, notebooking pages, and free printable flashcards featuring winter themes, scenes, and animals. If you have any free winter printables for kids you’d like to recommend, feel free to share them in the comments!

And be sure to see our other winter activities, including snowman crafts for kids and our list of 50 winter books for kids to read!

These free winter printables for kids feature plenty of fun learning ideas for the winter season!

50+ Free Winter Printables for Kids:

1. Snowflake Counting Flashcards – Look! We’re Learning!

2. Winter Printable Pack – Gift of Curiosity

3. Winter ABC Printable Pack – 3 Dinosaurs

4. Winter PreK Pack – This Reading Mama

5. Snowman Packs – Royal Baloo

6. Printable Winter Word Search – Real Life at Home

7. Hibernating Winter Animals Printable – 3 Boys and a Dog

8. Winter Pack – 3 Dinosaurs

9. Winter Math and Language Pack – A Little Pinch of Perfect

10. Color the Snowman Buttons – Gift of Curiosity

11. Printable Winter Picture Book List – Library Adventure

12. Free Polar Animal Notebooking Pages – Look! We’re Learning!

Winter Playdough Mats for Kids

13. Winter Spelling Activity Game – The Measured Mom

14. Free Winter Memory Game – Powerful Mothering

15. Winter and Summer Clothing Sort – From ABCs to ACTs

16. Hibernation Toss and Sort Printable Game – Enchanted Homeschooling Mom

17. Winter Math Board Game – Inspiration Laboratories

18. Printable Winter Social Story – And Next Comes L

19. Winter Alphabet and Number Cards – The Kindergarten Connection

20. Penguin Printable Coloring Pages – Kids Creative Chaos

21. Printable Snowflake Matching Game – No Time for Flashcards

22. Winter I Spy Game – Pleasantest Thing

23. Winter Reading Charts – 3 Dinosaurs

24. Winter Word Recognition Printable – Mama Miss

25. Roll a Snowman Printable – Wise Owl Factory

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Free Printable Flashcards: Arctic Animal Flash Cards

November 14, 2017 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

These Arctic Animal flash cards are perfect for a homeschooling unit about winter!
Pick up these Arctic Animal printable flashcards to help kids learn about animals that live in the Arctic region!

Winter is rapidly approaching and it seems like lots of parents and educators are getting ready for the cold season.

So, we thought we’d share a new set of free printable flashcards today – Arctic Animal flash cards!

I love learning about the Arctic with the kids. The animals that live there are so varied (and adorable).

Printable Arctic Animals Flashcards for Kids

Plus, there are all kinds of fascinating behaviors to study: from penguins that huddle together to keep warm to Arctic hares that lighten in color as they age for an amazing camouflage.

Read on to get your copy of these Arctic Animal learning cards – free!

If your students enjoy using these, be sure to check out our Spanish Arctic Animals Learning Card set for even more vocabulary practice!

Teach early learners about animals that live in the Arctic regions with these Arctic Animals flashcards!

Printable Arctic Animal Flashcards for Kids

To use these Arctic Animal flashcards, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are used below. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer paper
  • Scissors
  • Laminator (Helps cards stay sturdy longer)
  • Hook and loop adhesive coins (optional)
Learning about Arctic Animals with Kids

This flash card set includes eight different Arctic animals:

  • Walrus
  • Sea Lion
  • Arctic Hare
  • Arctic Fox
  • Arctic Wolf
  • Orca Whale
  • Polar Bear
  • and Beluga Whale!
Simple Arctic Animals Flashcards for Kids

The first set of cards are flashcards to introduce students to each animal.

Be sure to read the name of each animal aloud and have students repeat it as they look at each picture.

Printable Arctic Animals Matching Cards

The second set of cards are picture matching cards with the name only.

A page of separate animal pictures is included.

How to Use the Arctic Animals Learning Cards with Students

If you choose, you can put the flashcards on a ring for use at centers. Let students practice reading each animal name aloud as they come to each picture.

Winter Animals Flashcards

Once students have mastered identifying each animal, let them practice their recognition by finding the right picture for each animal name!

If you want to make this a reusable activity, add hook and loop adhesive coins to the back of the pictures.

Students can practice matching them up again and again!

Arctic Animals Matching Cards

Pretty soon they’ll be naming all the Arctic animals on their own!

Scroll down to get your free Arctic Animal Flash Cards!

Books about Arctic Animals for Kids:

For even more arctic animal fun, try these great kids’ books about arctic animals!

1. Polar Animals – Scholastic

2. Amazing Arctic Animals – Penguin

3. Over in the Arctic: Where the Cold Winds Blow – Marianne Berkes

4. Arctic A to Z – Wayne Lynch

Be sure to check out these other winter activities!

This fun hibernation sorting activity is a great way to teach students about animals that hibernate!
This easy polar bear paper bag puppet is a fun winter craft to make with kids!
This hands-on penguin life cycle sequencing activity is a simple way to learn about animal science during winter!
Arctic Animals Flashcards for Kids

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Polar Animal Learning Activities

More Polar Animal Ideas from the Early Elementary Team:

Penguin Addition to 100 with Hundreds Chart from Life Over C’s

Polar Animals Facts Game from In the Playroom

How Do Penguins Stay Dry? from Raising Little Superheroes

Polar Bear Food Chains from Rainy Day Mum

Polar Bear Place Value Math Games from Sugar Aunts

Polar Bear Footprint Multiplication from Still Playing School

Arctic Animals Sight Words Game from 123 Homeschool 4 Me

Polar Animals True or False? from Sallie Borrink – Living and Learning Outside the Box

Penguin Art Project from Preschool Powol Packets

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20 Kid Crafts for Winter

December 12, 2013 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Winter’s fast approaching and it’s a great time to break out some winter crafts for the kids! I’m not in love with winter, but I do love to make cute crafts and that’s usually enough to perk me up out of the winter blues. 🙂 Now that we have a very active preschooler, she always wants to make things with scissors and glue, so crafting is a perfect way to spend some time with her.

I’ve rounded up some of our favorite kid crafts for winter from around the web and I’m sharing them here today! We’ll be trying out a few of these this month and through the season, but I’d love to hear which ones catch your eye as well!

By the way, if you want more winter craft ideas, don’t miss our lists of penguin crafts for kids and snowman crafts for kids!

These easy kid crafts for winter are a perfect way to pass a cold winter's day!

20 Kid Crafts for Winter:

1. Printable Snowflake Math Factors Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

2. Winter Snowflake Slime – Little Bins for Little Hands

3. Glittery Snowflake Suncatchers – Happiness is Homemade

4. Sensory Blizzard in a Bottle – No Time for Flashcards

5. Snowman Factory – Buggy and Buddy

6. Foam Ball Winter Snowman – Crafty Morning

7. Cardboard Snowflake Printing – The Jenny Evolution

8. Paper Snow Globe Craft – Housing a Forest

9. Snow Puffy Paint – The Imagination Tree

10. Salt Truck Shape Craft – Sugar Aunts

11. Snowy Paper Collage – A Little Pinch of Perfect

12. Paper Polar Bear Craft – Crafty Morning

13. Fine Motor Ice Skates Lacing Craft – I Heart Arts and Crafts

14. Ice Wreath Bird Feeder Craft – Hands On As We Grow

15. Melted Snowman Shape Collage – Mom Inspired Life

16. Winter Necklace Craft – Domestic Mommyhood

17. Q-Tip Painted Snowman Craft

18. Ice Sun Catcher – Kid World Citizen

19. Children Catching Snowflakes Winter Craft – Crafty Morning

20. Winter Playdough Creation Station – No Time for Flashcards

Fun and Easy Kid Crafts for Winter - Look! We're Learning!

And if you love these, try some of these other fun ideas for kids!

These winter books for kids are great for sharing as a family!

These easy snowman crafts for kids are perfect for exploring winter this year!

Paper Snowflake 2nd Grade Math Factors Craft

Plus, see more winter learning ideas on my Winter Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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