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This blog post is all about winter activities.
January is here, and you're thinking, how can I incorporate winter activities for hands-on learning for my toddlers and preschoolers?
This post has you covered! Giving you four different themes with hands-on winter activities. You'll be covered with literacy, math, STEM, gross motor, crafts, fine motor, and sensory play!
The best part is that each theme comes with five daily lesson plans that are very detailed, regardless of your educational background, allowing you to effectively teach your children!
WINTER ACTIVITIES
Winter Wonderland
These winter wonderland activities will keep your toddlers and preschoolers engaged! Children will use their fine motor strength lacing snowflakes and playdough winter mats. They have the opportunity to build snowmen in counting order 1-5, 1-10, or 1-20. Let's not forget to mention the fun snowball math activities! They roll a die and throw that number of snowballs in a basket. They will learn about proper winter attire. Relay races where they have to attempt to dress themselves after sorting the winter attire from non-winter clothes. The STEM activities were a huge hit and repeated! They were able to learn why salt melts ice through exploration.
Arctic Animals
In the hands-on winter activities, the arctic animals theme, children will learn about hibernation. The children will learn exactly how animals stay warm through STEM activities. Preschoolers even have the opportunity to build igloos and their own habitat! Yes, toddlers and preschoolers can complete this project. They will build their basic number sense and counting skills through hands-on sensory play, feeding the penguin fish. Along with waddling like penguins to locate numbers, sort snowflakes by shape, and feed the walrus. Don't worry, there are plenty of craft activities as well, five to be exact.
Cozy Cabins
The cozy cabin weekly theme is all about hot cocoa, cabins, and nature. Math skills will be built through counting log cabins, counting pinecones, adding the amount of marshmallows to their hot cocoa cup, sorting, and creating their own hiking snack by counting out a given number of each item. Fine motor skills are used by Q-tip painting, lacing a scarf, and the hot cocoa sensory play. Children will go on a "hike" to find the pinecone letters. We can never have a theme and not build in a name-building craft too!
Winter Sports
Can you have learning winter activities and not include winter sports? I don't think so! Through this theme, children will complete hands-on learning activities that incorporate winter sports. They'll "ski" to numbers and letters. Complete ski jumps to identify numbers. Target practice by counting and throwing snowballs.
Every theme comes with five daily lessons that are detailed with STEM, literacy, math, crafts, sensory, gross motor, and fine motor. You can grab any of these themes individually or get more value for your dollar with the growing curriculum!
