Winter Activities

With the weather getting colder, you might be looking for a few indoor, Winter Activities to occupy and challenge your toddler. Set up these winter themed activities and watch your little one explore and learn!

Grab a pill box (mine was from The Dollar Tree) and some small pompom “snow balls.”  Tots have to exercise those finger muscles to open the little doors and hide a snowball in each one.

This Santa mold is from The Dollar Tree and I just laid it out with plastic tweezers (like THESE) and chunky cotton balls.  Have kiddos tweeze the balls to the tray, adding “beards” to the Santas.

If you’ve recently bought a pack of ornaments, don’t throw away the packaging!  I made some simple number cards with cardstock and stickers and set out a bowl of sparkly pompoms, too.  Tots have to put a number card in each section and then count out the correct amount of pompoms to match.

 I love making big patches of play dough (Homemade Playdough Recipe).  Sometimes I add in glitter or scents (did you know that Dollar Tree sells seasonal scents like peppermint or cocoa?).  For this activity, I set out a lump of dough, as well as a bowl of necessities to make a snowman (pipe cleaners for arms, buttons for eyes, pebbles for a mouth, ect.).

You could easily have kids cut their own white strips but I had everything already prepped for this activity, ready to go on the tray.  Tots took a strip and glued it on the candy cane, talking about patterns as they went!

I filled a bowl with tiny, colorful jingle bells and laid it out with a tablespoon measuring spoon.  They had to spoon and transfer, which made a super satisfying sound in the glass bowls!

Print off some pages from HERE, laid out with Dot Stampers, and you have a super fun, low-mess activity!