Fun Winter Printables and Games to Keep Kids Entertained

Winter break is a great break from our everyday routines, but it can be tricky to keep the kids entertained because it’s generally not the best weather. On the rare occasions we get snow it’s usually awfully cold, so my kiddo would only want to play outside for a few minutes. If you need some indoor entertainment for holiday break or any other time when it’s cold, check out these winter themed printables.

Keeper of Our Home has a few cute and easy printable mazes that little kids can do. There’s the snowflake pictured as well as a letter W, a penguin trying to get to an igloo and get to the snowman through the maze while counting by 2s.

I’m always down for a good I-Spy printable, especially when it gives you the chance to color all the little objects, like you could with this one form Paper Trail Design. Kids can color the page and count up all the snowmen, snow globes, mugs of hot chocolate, clouds and more.

You’ll find a nice collection of coloring pages and winter printable activities at Sunny Day Family. This collection includes coloring pages of kids in the snow, a snow globe you can fill with drawings, a printable winter memory game, a sled-themed maze, word search and more. You can get the printables when you sign up to receive emails.

Playing with Legos is a fun thing to do when it’s cold outside, and Life Over Cs has a nice collection of printable Lego mats kids can use to build different designs and then count up how many bricks of each color they used. Options include a penguin, snowman, snowflake, mitten, cup of cocoa and more.

Give kids a little challenge with this fun decoder wheel activity from Crafting Cheerfully. This project is for sale in her Etsy shop but would be lots of fun for kids who like mysteries. It includes riddles kids can solve with the decoder, but of course they could also draw the icons and send their own secret messages.

Print out a game you can be playing in minutes with this wintry take on chutes/snakes and ladders from Love to Play. It’s easy enough for little ones and a pretty quick game so older kids won’t get bored that fast playing with the little kids! Check out the kids craft section on Craftbits.com

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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