Fun Winter Printables and Games to Keep Kids Entertained

December 12, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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

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Learning Numbers for Preschoolers

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in.

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help.

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute.

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10.

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them.

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have.

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.

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