Polar Bear Learning Activites

January 15, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

After that post about penguin learning activities, I couldn’t resist sharing some polar bear activities, too. You can do a whole week of learning about cold-weather animals, or just throw in some polar bear activities to add to your winter fun.

Learn about the life cycle of a polar bear and do some polar bear learning and writing using the printables from Homeschool of 1.

Get some cutting practice with a polar bear twist from Simple Everyday Mom. She has other great worksheets for practicing the letter P and labeling a polar bear, too.

Sort nouns and verbs with a polar bear twist with these printable activities for 3 Dinosaurs. They’re related to the Magic Tree House book about polar bears, which might be fun to read (or the nonfiction companion book) while you’re doing these activities. They also have printable polar bear ten frames you can use to practice counting.

Homeschool Share has a printable polar bear math mat where kids roll a die and add snow to the polar bear’s snow globe. This is an easy project for one to one correspondence.

Unscramble words related to polar bears and the Arctic with this printable from Miniature Masterminds. Or solve polar bear mazes with help from Planes and Balloons. Grab a super cute polar bear memory game from Simple Everyday Mom.

Get kids moving and playing with sound with the polar bear sound game from Growing Book By Book. You can play this with rhyming words, saying how many syllables are in a word or words in a sentence, or other ways she talks about in the post.

Add a little STEM to your exploration of polar bears by learning how blubber keeps polar bears warm (this activity from I Can Teach My Child looks super fun) and learn about polar bear dens and designing your own with this activity from Primary Theme Park.

Polar Bear Board Game

Polar Bear Card Game

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Ice Cream Crafts for Kids to Make

We’ve gotten to the point in summer where I live where I spend a lot of time thinking about ice cream. While I’m trying to avoid eating ice cream daily as a way to beat the heat, let’s take a look at some ice cream themed crafts we can make instead.

And don’t miss these learning activities with an ice cream theme if you need more ideas.

One of the links in that post was to this cute puffy paint ice cream cone craft from Crafty Morning, which deserves more attention because it’s super cute and this version of puffy paint is easy to make and sensory fun for kids. They also have this cute handprint ice cream cone craft that’s super sweet for little kids to make.

You can use everyday materials of all sorts to make your ice cream cones. For example, you can use a sponge and pompom or cotton balls like stamps as in this craft from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Or use a potato to make the top of the cone like this one from Made to be a Momma.

Make your ice cream from a doily, like this one from Crafts on Sea, which is also embellished with pompoms for sprinkles. I Heart Crafty Things has a similar project done with a cupcake liner instead of a doily.

Or try using cotton pads, which can then be decorated with watercolors, as shown in this tutorial from Happy Toddler Playtime. You could do the same thing with cotton balls if you don’t have cotton pads handy.

Cut a paper plate into a cone shape and have kids decorate it with this craft idea from Easy Peasy and Fun. One of hers shows using real sprinkles to decorate the ice cream, which is a great idea if you’ve got some old sprinkles lurking in the pantry. Or you can just draw on sprinkles or use other random things from around the house.

The Pinterested Parent has a printable for a mosaic ice cream cone craft, which is a fun way to use up bits of paper. You could also make it more of a collage with different kinds and colors of paper and different items to add to your ice cream.

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