Fun Games to Play to Prepare for the Winter Games

The Winter Games are coming up next month, and if you’re ready to bring a little of that fun into the classroom or your home, here are some great winter sport themed games you can play.

Some of these ideas, from Care.com, require snow as written (and you can’t really have a sled race without it, let’s be honest) but you can play house hockey or sock skating no matter the weather outside. And you could definitely come up with an indoor version of a biathlon by setting up a racing area and a target to hit with soft balls, rolled up socks or paper balls.

Looking for more ideas for celebrating the Winter Games? I’ll have more in the coming days, but you can also check out some activity ideas and a fun wordsearch printable, as well as all of our past resources for Olympics crafts and activities.

[Photo via Care.com]

Next Plan Idea:

Learning about the Weather with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

Next Plan Idea:

Have you read?

Leave a Reply