Easy winter activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kids!
Are you ready to dive into a wonderland of winter activities? Here you’ll find activities, crafts, sensory and science activities all with a winter theme for kids of all ages.
I know, I know – when the temperature drops and the days get shorter, it might feel like your options for fun are limited.
But hold onto your mittens, because I’s about to prove that wrong!
Living in a cold climate means making the most of all season so I have done tons of winter activities with my toddlers, preschoolers and my older kids.
Ive collected the best ideas here in a roundup of over 60 spectacular winter activities for kids of all ages from toddlers all the way up to your older school aged child that will turn these chilly months into fun warm afternoons!
This list of winter activities is organized by ages:
- Winter Activities for Toddlers
- Winter Activities for Preschoolers
- Winter Activities for Kids (includes kids kindergartner aged and up)
Winter Activities for Toddlers
Create a fun and easy snowman sticky wall for your toddler or preschooler! It’s a great fine motor winter holiday activity!
Snowflake Balance Activity is fun and easy gross motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers and a great indoor activity for winter!
This is a super fun and easy winter activity that had my three year old entertained for almost two hours!? After the 4th doing it I had to tell her that this would be the last time!
- Penguin Shape Craft
Snow day? Need a fun play idea to keep the kids occupied? Check out this easy to set up play kitchen idea using snow!!
Super easy Winter arts and crafts for toddlers and preschoolers. Snowflakes made using a plastic fork!
Need a fun way to refresh your shapes puzzle this winter? Trying putting it in snow! Check out this super fun and easy puzzle matching activity for toddlers!
Let’s turn a regular day into a snowy, fun-filled adventure with a simple yet super exciting activity: Snowball Pick-Up!
Winter Ice Sensory Bin is THE BEST sensory activity for winter! You will be amazed at how much fun your little one will have with ice!
Snowball Rescue Sensory Bin is a great fine motor winter activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Rescue the snowballs in this easy sensory bin activity!
Snowman Towers is an easy winter STEM activity for winter! Super easy to set up and great for babies, toddlers and even preschoolers!
Here is a fun fine motor winter activity for babies and toddlers. Drop DIY snowflakes into different containers!
Snowball Balance is a super easy to clean up and set up winter STEM activity for toddlers and preschoolers! A great way to banish boredom on those long cold days!
Create this adorable penguin sticky wall craft this winter with your kids! It’s a fun sticky wall activity for toddlers and preschoolers!
Create this fun and easy winter tree craft with your toddler using left over bubble wrap! Its a great indoor craft activity for winter!
Painting Ice is a super easy art activity for kids. A great activity for anytime of the year: indoor during the winter outdoor on a hot day.
Winter Tree Sticky Wall Craft for Kids is a fun and easy activity. It makes the perfect indoor winter activity on those cold snowy days!
Bubble snow foam sensory bin is a fun and easy winter indoor activity for toddlers and preschoolers! So much fun for such an easy set up.
Snowman sticker sort is a fun sorting activity using dot stickers! This easy to set up toddler activity makes the perfect indoor winter learning game!
Winter Activities for Preschoolers
Make a hot chocolate craft with your toddler or preschooler and let them practice learning the letters of their name at the same time!
Snowman Letter Sensory Bag preschool activity is a fun and easy fine motor letter recognition for toddlers and preschoolers for winter.
Winter hat colour sort sensory bag is a fantastic fine motor activity for winter! Colour sort the Pom Pom in this fun sensory activity!
Sometimes you just need an activity that will keep them occupied while you get stuff done. Well I have you covered with this fun and easy to set up Dot Sticker Snowflake. A great winter time fine motor activity.
Check out this winter sensory play idea using snow and dinosaurs! It’s a fun way to entertain your toddler or preschooler indoors or out after a big snowfall!
Today, we’re diving into a delightful craft project that transforms everyday Q-tips into stunning snowflakes.
Snowball Letter Unwrap is a fun way to practice letter recognition! This easy early literacy activity is great for toddlers and preschoolers.
Handprint Counting Mittens is a fun way to practice counting in winter! This fun math activity is a fun way for toddlers and preschoolers.
Create this adorable glitter snow penguin craft with your toddler or preschooler! It’s a fun and easy to set up craft idea for winter.
Snow Counting activity is a fun way to practice counting in winter. Bring the snow indoors for this fun numeracy activity for preschoolers.
Snowman Phonics Discovery Bags are a fun and easy way for your toddler or preschooler to practice letter sounds this winter.
Cotton ball snowflake is a fun and easy fine motor art activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Create a colourful snowflake this winter!
This is a fun and easy winter literacy activity that is perfect for preschoolers and kindergartners. Create snow letters on a sticky wall!
This cute frozen penguin and Pom Pom sensory bin is sure to keep your toddler or preschooler busy learning and playing this winter.
Make cool snowflakes with this easy toilet paper snowflake craft with your preschooler! It’s also a great to practice name recognition!
This winter play dough invitation to play is a great indoor activity for kids. Let them create a wintry outdoor scene, make a snowman or decorate a mitten!
Winter Activities for Kids
Here is a fun way to play in the snow! Create a backyard obstacle course this winter! This is an amazing way to keep kids entertained outside!
Decorate a snowflake using a code in this recycled colour coded activity for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten aged children.
This is a great winter fine motor activity for preschoolers and kindergartners. Create fuzzy snowflakes on contact paper!
Here is a fun and super easy winter math activity for preschoolers and kindergartners. Create snowflakes using cardboard tubes!
Dive into a fun winter project that’s perfect for indoor winter days – Fake Snow Sensory Bin
Are you ready to create a miniature icy world that’s both fizzy and fun by making a Fizzy Penguin Sensory Bin?
This Easy Fork Painted Melted Snowman Craft is the perfect craft for the winter season! And super easy to make. It’s a great boredom buster for toddlers and preschoolers.
Here is an adorable snow plow craft using shapes! Create an amazing snow plow using different shapes – the perfect winter craft!
Catching Snowflakes Sticky Wall is an adorable craft for kids! Create a self portrait of your child trying to catch snowflakes from the sky!
Here is a fun activity to do on a snowy day! Make snow cookies and cakes using cookie cutters and play baking tools.
Use toilet paper rolls to create this easy and adorable snowman craft with your toddler or preschooler this winter!
This fork painted snowy owl craft is a fun and easy winter animal craft for kids of all ages! Use a fork to create this adorable baby owl.
Get ready to make your very own Corked Painted Snowflake – an art project that’s as unique as the snowflakes gently tumbling from the sky!
As the air turns crisp, there’s nothing quite like cozying up indoors with a set of coloring pages that bring the magic of winter.
Are you ready to whip up a storm of science and fun right in your kitchen with a cool and educational experiment – the Blizzard Lava Lamp!
This adorable stained glass snowman craft is the perfect indoor craft activity for a cold snowy day! Create beautiful snowman window art!
Create a Puffy Paint Snowflake Craft and practice fine motor skills all the while making a beautiful snowflake!
Cupcake Liner Snowflake Craft is a fun and easy way to make snowflake with kids. Make unique snowflakes using cupcake liners.
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
