23 Winter Activities for Young Children

Slide onto some snow

1. Have a snowball fight.
2. Make & decorate a snow man.
3. Use containers of different shapes to make ice figurines.
4. Make a structure out of ice bricks.
5. Slide onto some snow.
6. Make snow angels 
7. Go sledding or tobagoning down a snow hill
8. Go ice skating 
9. Play ice hockey
10. Conduct ice experiments. Record the amount of time it takes for different liquids to freeze outside.
11. Research all or some of the countries in the world that experience Winter.
12. Watch a documentary about Antarctica
13. Watch a documentary about the Arctic
14. Have a winter clothes ‘layering up’ race
15. Get some window markers and draw snow flakes on a window.
16. Make some snowflakes from construction paper.
17. Make an igloo
18. Make a hot chocolate station
19. Make some s’mores 
20. Go on a snow walk in a park and try to identify different foot prints. 
21. Research different animals that hibernate during winter.
22. Learn about how various animals keep warm in the winter time.
23. Learn about groundhogs and how they help ‘predict the end of winter.’