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50+ Free Winter Printables for Kids!

January 15, 2018 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

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!

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!

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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21 Fun Winter Activities for Kids

January 1, 2018 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

Brrrrr!!! Winter is definitely here! It got down to the teens here today, which is exceptionally rare here in Georgia. So I thought it would be fun to feature some great winter activities for kids!

Winter is not my favorite season, not by far. There’s something about cold weather that just makes me want to curl up into a ball and refuse to leave my bed. But the kids love it and I want them to have a fun winter, even if I’d rather be hiding under the covers. 🙂

And that’s why I’m sharing the fun winter activities below! There are cute wintry crafts for little ones, winter-themed early literacy activities, and winter games that are perfect for throwing a snow day party with the kids!

If you enjoy these, take a look at our list of 50 cozy winter books to share with the kids! Or get a look at even more art projects in our list of 50 winter crafts!

21 Fun Winter Activities for Kids

1. Use these Winter Sight Words Flashcards to practice early reading skills!

2. This Printable Winter Bingo Game is such a cute winter game for kids!

3. Let the kids get some sensory play with this Winter Sensory Bin!

4. Have some Winter Playdough Fun with the little ones!

5. Read some of these beautiful Books about the Winter Solstice!

6. This snowy Winter Slime is a great play activity for little hands!

7. Your little superhero fans will love making paper snowflakes with these Batman Snowflake Templates!

8. These Salt-Painted Snowflakes are beautiful!

9. Make these simple Winter Candle Luminaries for some soft winter light!

10. Kids will love trying this Snow Crystal Science Experiment!

11. Get to know animals that live in the Arctic Circle with these Arctic Animal Flashcards!

12. Introduce the kids to abstract art with this Abstract Winter Art activity!

13. This easy Simple Snowman Sensory Bin is so simple to set up!

14. Kids will love making this Sticky Yarn Snowflake Craft!

15. The Yeti might be a legend, but this Cardboard Tube Yeti Craft is so adorable!

16. Preschoolers will love making mixed media art with this Winter Bubble Wrap Tree Craft!

17. Make some feathered friends with these Craft Stick Macaroni Penguins!

18. Let the kids use these Preschool Snowman Printables for early learning!

19. These Watercolor and Oil Pastel Resist Snowflakes are so pretty! Let the kids hang them in the window!

20. Get some fine motor skill practice with these Yarn-Wrapped Snowflakes!

21. Practice simple counting with these printable Snowflake Counting Flashcards!

Like these fun kids’ activities? Take a look at these other learning ideas and crafts!

See even more fun ways to spend winter with the family on my Winter Activities for Kids Pinterest board!

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5 Fun Winter Crafts for Kids

January 26, 2016 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Is anyone else kind of “over” winter? It seemed like the weather was never going to get cold and then BOOM! we all got hit with a massive winter storm and I was like “Okay, that’s enough cold for now.”

To get back to enjoying the fun of winter, I put together a quick roundup of fun winter crafts for kids that you can do in just a few minutes!

Today is also another Laugh and Learn linky party! Check out our favorite posts from last week and read more great posts from awesome bloggers below!

5 Fun Winter Crafts for Kids

Honestly, crafting is not one of my natural gifts. I’m the type of person that needs step-by-step directions to do most tasks. But these crafts are so easy even a non-crafty person (like myself) can do them in no time!

To get the scoop on how to make these crafts with your kids, stop over at Thinking Outside the Sandbox to get the details!

5 Fun Winter Crafts for Kids – Thinking Outside the Sandbox

Resources to Make Winter Crafts for Kids:

To make winter crafting even easier, try these great resources!

For more winter fun, follow my Winter Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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Selena’s pick for this week…

Note from Selena:
I love these ideas for making geography fun and hands-on in your homeschool!

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Note from Sarah:
We’ve actual conducted an experiment this year. With bipolar, ADHD, aspergers, and anxiety all in the mix, January is our most difficult month. So this year we just took it off. It’s been nice not feeling guilty about being to tired to get school done. I love Lindsey’s ideas for easing back into the routine.

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These look amazing and I may even be able to get my kids to eat them!

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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!