Snow Learning Activities

I did a post last year with ideas for learning about snow, but there’s always more out there so let’s look deeper into some projects using or talking about snow.

If you have snow where you live there are lots of experiments you can do. I like this one from KC Edventures to determine how much water is in snow. Super easy if you have snow on the ground and pretty cool to see the difference between a jar of snow and the water it leaves behind.

Of course you can also do classics like color mixing with snow and making a fizzy snowman (both of these ideas from from Living Life and Learning). The snowman doesn’t actually call for snow but it would be fun to try mixing the baking soda with snow before you add the vinegar just to see what happens.

And if you don’t have snow around you can make a snowstorm in a jar with instructions from Taming Little Monsters. This is an easy and fun activity and the post explains the science behind it so you can talk about that, too.

Make your own paper snowflakes with the how do snowflakes form printable from Kitchen Counter Chronicle.

Homeschooling in Progress has some ideas and shares some paid resources for doing a snow themed unit study, but there are also good ideas for books about snow you might want to check out and other fun snow related activities (like making snowflake-shaped crystals).

Mama’s Learning Corner has a paid printable book on the life cycle of a snowflake, meaning how snowflakes are formed, what they look like and how they fall. The pack also includes a vocabulary worksheet and writing pages with a snowflake theme.

And Simple Living Creative Learning has another great paid pack of printables including information about snow, icicles and snowflakes, different types of snowflakes, symmetrical drawing, snow cycle activities and more.

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After sharing some witch themed math activities, I found a bunch more fun printable worksheets with a Halloween theme for kids to try, so let’s take a look at some more low-prep Halloween learning fun.

Give kids practice measuring bats, spiders, ghosts and more with these printables from What I Have Learned Teaching. Kids can use a ruler, unit cubes or even little Halloween themed erasers to measure and track the size of the images.

Practice symmetry by drawing half a haunted house, ghost, skull or other simple images with this activity from Printables Hub.

I always love a good roll and draw activity, too, so check out this roll and draw a ghost activity (which has printable instructions) from Finding Myself Young.

Missy Printable Design has a cute set of Halloween worksheets for preschool, including tracing the letter H and a haunted house, spider counting, number tracing, sequencing, coloring pages and more.

The Halloween themed printables from The Artisan Life are meant to be playdough mats, and you can definitely use them for that to make the shape and trace the letters. But you could also use pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix, or line up buttons or anything else on them.

Older kids will enjoy this witch’s brew logic puzzle from Education.com. The witch has made different potions with different colors that do different things, and using the clues you can figure out which one is which. (Don’t worry; there’s an answer key included if you can’t figure it out on your own!)

Another fun puzzle is this decoder activity from Crafting Cheerfully. The holiday icons each represent a letter, and kids can use the decoder to answer the riddle. This isn’t a free resource (and the link in the post is broken but you can find it here) but it includes 20 riddles and an editable file so you can make up your own codes to decipher.

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