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

It’s the time of the year to start bringing a little Halloween fun into every lesson plan you can, so here are some ideas for witch themed math activities your kids are sure to love.

Practice symmetry skills with this witch hat counting game from Friends Art Lab. Kids can stick stickers of the same type on each side of the hat, then count how many total, how many of each type, etc. And you end up with a cute piece of art to boot.

Frugal Mom Eh has a number of witch themed worksheets including a connect the dots, label the witch and Halloween themed scattergories. But the one that caught my eye was the witch’s leg coloring page, which is a color by the answer to the math problem.

Nurtured Neurons has a cute witch counting came where you match the witch to the number of bubbles coming out of her cauldron. This one requires membership in their community but you might be able to get a free preview.

The witches brew on a ten frame activity from Miniature Masterminds is a cute one to work on one to one correspondence. Use little erasers or buttons if you want to reuse the cards, or add stickers to match the number on the card, which adds a fine motor skill component.

The Teacher Bag has a cute Halloween counting game kids can use to make their own potion in a little cauldron. You could make your own version with all the little Halloween themed bits you have handy, and either make a spinner like theirs or just write out some recipes and have kids go through the bigger cauldron to find all the ingredients they need. Then count them up! This post from Pocket of Preschool has a similar idea you can use with their printable or make your own with whatever items you have on hand.

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