Your preschool and kindergarten-aged children will love learning all about snow with ideas from my preschool snow unit. These snow-themed activities are perfect for winter. Use the snow theme for preschool in a traditional school or homeschool setting!
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Read About Snow
We read 5 books about snow for our snow theme for preschool. For each of the books, we did 5 reading lessons, one for each day of the week.
We began our snow theme for our preschool unit with the retelling of the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. Once we read the book we talked about what happened in the story and then cut out the images and repasted them on to the worksheet in the correct order.
Next, we worked on making predictions using the book Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner. I held up the book and asked what they thought the book would be about based on the cover alone. Then I read the title and author. We did a picture walk through the book and asked if their predictions changed. Then I read the book aloud and we discussed our predictions.
On Wednesday we read the book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I printed out comprehension questions on sticky notes and added them to pages so that we could discuss important parts of the story. This is such a classic story about snow!
I read aloud the classic story The Hat by Jan Brett and had the kids do another retelling of the story. They cut out the story parts and glued them on to the paper in the correct order. This activity is great because it works on retelling skills while also working on fine motor skills.
Our final reading activity for the week was “S” emergent readers. There are two versions of these readers. One has “S” words with pictures. The other version is a little more advanced and has the same “S” words with pictures along with a simple sentence. The students use their fingers to track the print as they read.
Snow Theme for Preschool Literacy Activities
For our snow theme for preschool we did 5 days of literacy activities. The first literacy activity was salt tray writing. I grabbed my pencil boxes filled with salt and some unsharpened snow themed pencils then I printed out the letters on snowballs. I like using the pencil boxes to store the salt because I can close the lid to store them for future use and the sides are nice and high to prevent more spills. This is a great sensory activity for letter formation and identification. I included uppercase, lowercase, and numbers to 20 for this activity.
We did another fun sensory writing for the next literacy activity. I grabbed baking sheets (you can grab cheap ones from the dollar store) for the kids to write on, but you could also have them do it directly on the desks or tables. I just liked being able to pick up the baking sheets for quicker cleanup. I sprayed some foam shaving cream on to the baking sheet and had the kids spread it out and then gave them sight words to trace. We practiced reading the words as we traced them.
Our next literacy activity in our snow theme for preschool was our initial sound match. There are snowmen for each letter of the alphabet. Students need to match the images with the snowmen so that the initial sound is represented. There were so many ways we used this. We did it all together, my kids worked on it independently, and I put it up as an interactive bulletin board.
I got the kids writing using snow writing prompts. There are 4 prompts included in the preschool snow unit that students chose from. They drew a picture and labeled it if they were able to. I helped as needed. These turned out so cute!
Our final literacy activity was an initial sound read and color. The kids said the word of the picture located within the piece, looked at the key, and colored it accordingly.
Snowy Math Activities
Our first math activity in our snow theme for preschool unit were counting snowball mats. These mats go from 1-20. The kids identify the number on the mat and place a cotton ball into each snowball. They can use kids tweezers to work on fine motor skills.
Next we did counting snowflakes clip cards. These cards include the numbers 0-10. The kids count the number of snowflakes around the child and use a clothespin to identify the correct number on the card.
We moved on to winter patterns for our next math activity. This activity worked on ab and abc patterns. Students also used fine motor skills as well as cutting and gluing with this activity.
Our next math activity for our snow theme for preschool was snowman sequencing. In this activity the students sequenced the steps to make a snowman. This important skill works on sequential order, fine motor skills to arrange the pictures in order, numerical order (putting the steps into a numbered order), memory and recall, and so much more!
Next the kids played a fun game of snowball roll and cover. They worked on adding the numbers on the dice and locating that number on their game sheet. They covered the number and tried to be the first to cover all the numbers on their sheet. This was a lot of fun!
Snow Sensory, Science, and Social
Our first snow theme for preschool art activity was snowflake painting. We created snowflakes out of salt and used liquid watercolor to paint them. These turned out beautifully and the kids had a lot of fun in the process.
Our next snow theme for preschool activity was snowman puffy paint. We made our own puffy paint and used it to paint snowmen on construction paper. Then we placed the printed pieces on to the snowman before it dried. These were perfect for a winter themed bulletin board!
Next we created slime which is every kids favorite thing and every teacher’s nightmare (but we do it for the kids right?). The kids loved playing with this and really enjoyed the sensory experience. To keep with the snow theme for preschool we created a white slime with foam balls.
Our next activity was to create snowman sensory bags. The kids had to use their hands to make a snowman by moving the materials inside the bag without opening the bag up. I put hair gel in the bag to give it a nice sensory feel and taped the top so that it wouldn’t leak everywhere.
The final activity in the snow theme for preschool required a little bit of prep work. I created colored ice cubes for my kids to play with the next day. They were able to mix the colors on paper to make art work but this could also be done in a sensory table if you don’t want the students to use paper. It’s a perfect science and color mixing activity!
I hope you enjoyed this snow theme for preschool and if you want to use these activities you can grab them in my preschool snow unit. See all my early learning posts and grab a free transportation unit too!
