Discover fun and engaging winter math activities that make learning exciting for kids while incorporating seasonal themes and hands-on play. Winter offers endless opportunities to make math exciting and hands-on! Engage kids with activities like measuring snow, creating patterns with winter-themed objects, or exploring symmetry with snowflake designs. These activities not only strengthen math skills but also bring the winter wonderland indoors.
Why Winter Math Activities Work
By incorporating seasonal elements, math becomes relatable and fun. Use counting games with snowballs, graphing favorite winter treats, or estimating snowfall to build critical thinking skills.
These winter-themed math ideas are perfect for teachers, parents, and caregivers to keep kids learning while embracing the magic of the season!
Incorporating Math into Preschoolers’ Lives During Winter
Winter provides countless opportunities to weave math into your preschooler’s daily activities. You can count snowflakes or icicles during a walk, measure snow with a ruler, or sort mittens by color and size.
Baking winter treats? Involve your child by counting scoops of ingredients or discussing measurements.
Even something as simple as building a snowman can include math—compare heights, count buttons, or sort objects for decoration. These everyday moments turn math into a fun, hands-on experience that feels natural and engaging.
Math Skills These Activities Will Teach
Winter-themed math activities help preschoolers develop essential foundational skills. They’ll practice counting, sorting, and recognizing patterns through interactive play. Measuring snow or ingredients builds an understanding of units and introduces basic concepts of length and volume.
Exploring symmetry with snowflakes encourages critical thinking and spatial awareness. Additionally, comparing sizes and grouping objects reinforces early classification and problem-solving abilities. These activities make math approachable while fostering curiosity and confidence in young learners.
- Why Winter Math Activities Work
- Incorporating Math into Preschoolers’ Lives During Winter
- Math Skills These Activities Will Teach
- Hands-On Math Activities for Winter
- Hot Chocolate Counting Sensory Bag
- Handprint Counting Mittens
- Feed the Penguin Activity
- Colour Coded Snowflake
- Snow Counting Activity
- Snow Puzzle
- Snowman Button Counting Sticky Wall
- Hot Chocolate Sticker Match for Preschoolers
- Winter Hat Sensory Bag
- Hide the Penguins Sensory Bin
- LEGO Painted Snowflake Craft
- Q-Tip SnowFlake Craft
- Cardboard Tube Snowflakes
- Everyday Materials for Preschool Math
Hands-On Math Activities for Winter
Hot Chocolate Counting Sensory Bag
Hot chocolate sensory bag is a fun and easy way to practice counting this winter! Count the marshmallows into the cups of hot chocolate.
Handprint Counting Mittens
Handprint Counting Mittens is a fun way to practice counting in winter! This fun math activity is a fun way for toddlers and preschoolers.
Feed the Penguin Activity
My kids love hands-on activities, and this Feed the Penguin Activity was a total hit. When I first introduced this game to my kids, they couldn’t wait to start “feeding” the penguin. The concept is simple: roll a die or draw a card, count the fish, and feed them to the hungry penguin. Not only is it fun, but it sneaks in a bit of counting practice too!
Colour Coded Snowflake
Decorate a snowflake using a code in this recycled colour coded activity for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten aged children. Its easy to create and a great way to work on numbers, fine motor skills and visual discrimination.
Snow Counting Activity
Snow Counting activity is a fun way to practice counting in winter or on snowy days! Bring the snow indoors for this fun and easy snow numeracy activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
Snow Puzzle
Try this creative and fun puzzle matching activity! It is super easy to set up and makes the perfect activity to do when you get a fresh dump of snow!
Snowman Button Counting Sticky Wall
This is fun and easy winter math activity using contact paper that my three year old really got into!
Hot Chocolate Sticker Match for Preschoolers
Hot Chocolate Sticker Match is a great way to build number sense with toddlers and preschoolers. Kindergarten aged children would benefit from this simple to set up winter themed math activity as well.
Winter Hat Sensory Bag
Winter hat colour sort sensory bag is a fantastic and easy fine motor activity for winter! A great colour sorting sensory activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
Hide the Penguins Sensory Bin
Hide the Penguins Sensory Bin is a fun and easy winter sensory bin for toddlers and preschoolers. Let your little one hide the penguins in snow this winter. Hide them, dig them out repeat! So much fun and a great indoor winter activity!
LEGO Painted Snowflake Craft
LEGO painted snowflake craft is an easy way to get your toddler painting this winter. Grab a few Duplo and some washable paint for a fun morning activity.
Q-Tip SnowFlake Craft
Brrr, it’s chilly outside! But guess what? We’re bringing the beauty of snowflakes inside, where it’s warm and toasty.
Cardboard Tube Snowflakes
It’s part art, part math and part STEM. It is also very easy to set up and makes a great snow day activity for preschoolers and kindergartners.
Everyday Materials for Preschool Math
Incorporating math into your preschooler’s life is easy with everyday materials. Use items like buttons, cotton balls, or pom-poms for counting and sorting activities.
- Blocks or LEGO bricks are perfect for exploring patterns, symmetry, and even basic addition.
- Incorporate rulers, measuring cups, and spoons to teach concepts of length and volume during hands-on activities like snow measuring or baking.
- Seasonal materials like snowflakes, mittens, or pinecones can make math even more exciting.
- Cotton balls
- Pom poms
- White dot stickers
- Buttons
- Snow
- Cotton pads
These simple, readily available items turn ordinary moments into opportunities for playful and meaningful math learning.
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.
