Free Printable Christmas Bingo Game

There are 5 Bingo cards in this pack. Whether you’re trying to fight boredom, plan a family game night, or wanting something for a long car ride, play this Bingo game! Bingo is interactive and can be a way to keep the kiddos off of electronics for a bit.

In Bingo, the goal is to get five in a row vertical, horizontal, or diagonal.  Hand out a Bingo card to each child. Designate a “caller” or cut one of the cards up. The caller should pull out an image, and each player should cross off that image on their Bingo card. The first person to get five in a row wins!

The Bingo cards can be downloaded below.

Print Your Free Christmas Bingo Game Here!

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Winter Printables for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners

Color Sorting with Mittens – Homeschool Preschool

To go along with Jan Brett’s picture book The Mitten, here are some crafts and printables!

Arctic Preschool Letter Hunt – Learning 2 Walk

I love phonics and how they slowly teach reading. Practice letter recognition and word blends with this letter hunt!

Penguin Number Mats – Life Over C’s

Number mats can be used to sneak in learning at mealtimes. Here are some cute winter/penguin themed mats.

Winter Counting Mats – Living Life and Learning

For an alternate set for a slightly higher age range, try these, best for kindergarten to second grade.

Number Word Worksheets – Sight and Sound Reading

Practice number literacy with these worksheets from Sight and Sound Reading!

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Winter Crafts

Arctic Circle Unit Study – Angelicscalliwags

Enjoy this ten-week Arctic-themed unit study!

Winter Snow Collage – A Little Pinch of Perfect

Let your creativity flow with this snow collage!

Name Snowmen Preschool – Fun A Day

Let kids practice spelling their name (or sight words!) with snowmen!

Arctic Animals Printables – Gift of Curiosity

From basic addition to fine motor skills, this arctic animals printable pack is ideal for ages 2-7, and includes over 70 puzzles for your toddler!

Cotton Ball Penguin – Glued to my Crafts

Create a fuzzy, adorable, 3D penguin out of cotton balls and construction paper!

Greater Than Less Than Printable – Life Over C’s

Hone your greater than less than skills with these free printables.

Q-Tip Painted Snowman – Mess for Less

For a fun activity involving no scissors, try this q-tip painted snowman.

Healthy Winter Snacks – Cutting Tiny Bites

To balance all off the yummy cookies and cake over Christmas break, try these healthy winter snack alternatives.

Paper Polar Bear – Crafty Morning

Mix light blue paints for a watercolor feel for the background for this beautiful construction paper polar bear craft.

Snowflake Balance – Sugar Aunts

Practice balance with this beautiful snowflake pattern!

Free Skip Counting Printable – Life Over C’s

Practice counting with these winter-themed printables!

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Inside Winter Activities for Kids

Family Board Game for Preschoolers – Homeschool Preschool

Family board games are a great interactive bonding activity. Here are some great board games for preschoolers.

Do You Want to Dress A Penguin? – Sight and Sound Reading

Part of a series by Sight and Sound Reading, this cut and paste Do You Want to Build a Penguin? printable craft builds fine motor skills.

Science Without a Textbook – Le Chaim on the Right

Staying indoors doesn’t mean you can’t learn a bit. Explore creative alternatives to learning in 30+ Ways to Teach Science Without a Textbook.

An Amateur’s Guide to Making Minion Cakes – The Practical Mom

Spend an afternoon making these fanciful Minion Cakes!

Character Building Family-Friendly Movie Nights on Netflix – True Aim Education

If you’re wanting to relax, try these character-building, family-friendly movie nights on Netflix. Full of clean and quality films for all ages!

Free Printable Counting Game – Numbers 6-10

Practice counting with this free printable game for preschoolers.

10 Free Printable Flashcards for Toddlers – Look We’re Learning

Another creative bonding activity is flashcards. Try these educational printable flashcards with your toddlers if you’re stuck at home on a winter day.

Ice Skating Picture Books – Homeschool Preschool

I love ice skating (although I’m not very good at it), however if you can’t really go ice skating, try these adventurous picture book alternatives!

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Writing is a great winter time activity to use in your homeschool. Not all children enjoy writing, but there are ways to make it fun for everyone and using writing prompts in your homeschool is a great place to start!

Whether you have children that love to write or they are reluctant to write, they will have fun writing this winter with these fun winter writing prompts!

New Year Writing Prompts

• My new year outlook
• Things I’d like to do this year

Snow Themed Writing Prompts

• The magic of snowflakes
• If I were a snowman
• My favorite winter activity
• My favorite winter past time
• Why I love winter
• What I don’t like about winter
• If I could see the snow
• When I’m skiing on the mountain
• Ice skating makes me
• While I’m sledding I

Winter Holiday Writing Prompts

• If I could meet Martin Luther King Jr.
• My thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech
• If I were the groundhog on Groundhog Day
• Super Bowl 2016 memories
• A story about those I love
• What love is to me
• I feel loved when
• The things I love most
• If I could meet any President – Who and Why
• If I became President
• The history of the Presidency
• If I could meet St. Patrick
• My thoughts on St. Patrick’s Life

These are just a few ideas to help make your kids’ wintertime writing fun! Feel free to come up with a few of your own before you turn over your winter writing prompt list to your kids.

Below you’ll find a link to a set of printable notebooking pages featuring these writing prompts. I hope your kids have a great time sharing their thoughts and hearts with you all winter long.

What are you favorite winter writing prompts?

Winter Writing Prompts Notebooking Pages

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As a mom, struggling with winter blues or depression makes every part of life difficult. The hardest part of this struggle is parenting because our kids have so much energy and sometimes going outside is just not an option. It takes intentional planning to ensure that you are able to survive motherhood winter blues.

The hardest part of motherhood at wintertime for me is that my children love playing outside. Each year they build snow forts, make sledding paths, god ice fishing and more. I do not like the cold at all, yet I’m realizing that I need something the cold weather brings in order to survive the winter blues.

As we are just getting into a new year and the new winter season, this is a great time to take steps to intentionally plan on how we’re going to survive winter without visiting the winter blues.

First, take time to write down a few projects that you’ve been wanting to complete that you’ll have more time for throughout the winter months. 

A few projects that I’d like to complete are:

• A new cross stitch project
• Teach my daughter to sew
• Teach my son to make printable packs

Next, take a few moments and jot down things that you enjoy doing at home. 

A few of my favorite things to do at home are:

• Bake
• Read
• Write

Then, consider what activities that you and your kids enjoy doing together during the winter specifically. 

Some of our favorite winter family time activities are:

• Watching movies
• Playing board and card games
• Reading aloud together

Now, be honest with yourself and record some things that your kids have asked you to do, things you’d like to do with them and something(s) that you’ve been wanting to try. 

I know I need to do these things this winter:

• Play in the snow with my kids
• Go ice fishing with my family
• Start my book

Finally, spend some time looking over your lists. The activities you see on these lists are keys to surviving motherhood winter blues. 

Staying busy and spending quality time with your family doing things together are the best ways to survive the winter blues. 

To ensure that you don’t forget all of the activities that you want to do this winter, download a copy of the Free Winter Blues Buster Printable below. Write down all of your activities from the exercise in this post and then display your list where you and your family can see it all winter long.

Anytime that you feel the winter blues sneaking up on you, pick an activity from your winter blues buster list and do it! You’ll be surprised at the end of the winter season just how much you accomplished during the winter months, so be sure to keep track of everything you do!

How do you survive the winter blues?

Winter Blues Buster List

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Snowman Toss math Game

Sight Word “Snowball” Toss

Book-Inspired Snow Dough Play

Build a Shape Snowman

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Winter Themed Books!  

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Winter Tree Silhouettes and Identification

Easy Winter Snowflake Garland

Winter Activities that Match with Books 

Frozen Themed Preschool Printables

More Free Winter Printables

Easy Orange Cup Bird Feeders

DIY Glowing Snow Globe

Roll – A – Snowman

Easy Snowflake Prints

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So what can our children learn from the Olympics?  Learning numbers?  They are everywhere in the coverage.  Talking about Geography?  It’s diversity is incredible!  Teaching character?  Overcoming adversity and determination is in every event.  It’s the perfect way to change up the things that may have become mundane in the early parts of the year.

Here are some ideas that we will be doing along with some great links to resources that can help make the Olympics a great teaching tool for any age!

These t-shirts are perfect for opening ceremonies and nights where you are cheering on your favorite athletes! My kids are always proud to sport something they have made themselves.  These easy shirts are the perfect way to liven up your school projects!

Use your cutting, painting, and coloring skills to jazz up your house with these Olympic Plate Rings!  They are easy enough for even the younger ones to make!

 Let your kid’s imagination run wild as they invent their own Olympic sport, determine their rules, and even design their own medals with this freebie!

 Counting, Numbers & Graphs Everywhere!

Numbers are everywhere in the coverage!  Whether you are working on number recognition, counting, or addition and subtraction there is something for all ages! Here is a great resource on free printable graphs and charts.

Roll & Cover Number and Addition Game

Real World Geography

We will be hanging our large wall map down by our TV so we can find and quiz our kids on the different countries as the athletes compete.

I love how this idea of easy felt flags doubles as both a lesson on countries’ flags and decorations!

 Family Fun

Most learning that is remembered is done when it’s fun! I love these game ideas to challenge kids and promote family fun. Don’t just watch the athletes, become a competitor too! Family games are a great way to encourage bonding and relationships!

Character Building

Look for ways to teach your children about things like perseverance, determination, humility, and sacrifice.  Find ways to talk to your kids about their gifts and how they dream of using those things to bring glory to God someday.

We will be making these medals to reward and encourage our kids.  There are never too many ways to spend time building up our kids!

 Here is an amazing link that includes resources from libraries, You Tube, and Pinterest.

Have fun with the Olympics, use it as an opportunity to relate school with currents events, and most of all teach your kids to dream BIG! God has awesome plans for each one of our kids and it’s never too early to start teaching kids to trust Him to do the BIG, INCREDIBLE, and even the IMPOSSIBLE!

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Free Winter Olympics Printables

These free homeschool printables look amazing with over 100+ pages of vivid pictures including wall cards, writing prompts, history, medal counting and tracking, sport descriptions, host city profile, geography, art and more!  Everything you need to learn while watching the winter Olympics!  This pack can be used for grades PreK – 6th.  I like how all subjects are incorporated so you cover it all with just one theme.  If you have a sports enthusiast in the house, this pack will be a huge hit!

230 Pages of Free Preschool Winter Printables

Preschoolers and kindergartners will love all the activities in these printables.  I can only name a few since there are so many; 10 Piece Puzzles, 10 Part Math Puzzles, Clip & Count to 20, Size Sorting, Small Book, 3 Different types of Writing Pages, Color by Size, Color by Addition, Color by Subtraction, Mixed Up Word Matching, and more!  There are also links to a tot school pack and snowman themed printables!

Free Winter Spelling Game Printable (Grades 1-3)

I hated spelling growing up!  I really wish someone would have printed a game like this one for me.  You could make it really exciting by adding a small snack for every word spelled right.  The beauty of this game is that you can use any word list and multiple word lists for different ages.  So all your children can play at the same time and learning can take place without you.

 Free Polar Animal Notebooking Printables

Older children will enjoy researching facts about animals that live in the coldest part of our earth.  Each sheet has a great picture of the animal with different facts children can easily research for in any encyclopedia or online.  To get out of the house, take a trip to the library and grab some books about these animals to make it a complete unit.  This pack includes 12 pages with a fact matching game at the end to review what your children learn!

Free Snow Printable Pack

You’ll love all of these printables because each one can be used in a hands-on activity.  For PreK-K there is addition, subtraction, telling time, counting money, animals of Antarctica,  winter weather cards, and conifer tree match up!  I like how children can work on these independently and you can set them up like little stations and have them rotate through each one.  Even if you don’t use these, you’ll gain creative ideas for hands-on learning activities for your little ones.  So click the image to get some winter learning inspiration!

Free Winter Journal Printables

If your children can’t take being inside anymore, take the learning outside.  Use the cold weather as an opportunity to do some observational science.  These winter journal printables are the perfect match for your excursions.  You could even incorporate some photography skills in this activity and let your children take pictures of their favorite winter finds to make their own little winter book.  Just remember to bundle up!

Free Winter Lapbook Printables

Take a look at some of the amazing winter wonders that God has created!  Explore the science of winter through writing, reading, and art.  Free downloads include: 11 winter notebooking pages, life of a snow crystal, identify that tree, snow-did-you-know mini book, changing seasons, winter art and more!  I love how God’s word is incorporated into some of these printables.  With these free printables, your children won’t be the only ones learning!

Winter Learning with “The Mitten”

Bring Jan Brett’s beloved book to life for your children with free Mitten Themed Printables.  Take the idea even further by collecting warm clothing for people in need.  Just as God provides for us throughout the seasons of our lives, we can help provide for others.  It’s God’s spirit working through us!  Click on the image to download this unit and checkout even more “Mitten” themed printables!

More Winter Themed Free Homeschool Printables:

Preschool Printables

Free Winter Tot Pack (PreK)

The Snowy Day Printables (PreK)

Penguin Early Reader (PreK)

Arctic Animals Activity Pack (PreK)

All About Winter (PreK-K)

Printable Arctic Animal Crafts (PreK+)

Kindergarten – First Grade

January Coloring Pages (Grades K+)

30+ Winter Writing & Math Printables (Grades K+)

Free Snow-Themed Word Sort Printables: The Two Sounds of OW (Grades K-1)

Free Winter Themed Spelling Game Printable – Word Bump (Grades 1+)

Winter Word Search Printable (Grades 1+)

Winter Nature Notebooking Printables (Grades 1+)

Free Winter Puzzle Mini Unit (Grades 1+)

Second Grade and Up

Free Snowflake Math Factors Printable Activity (Grades 2+)

Free Arctic Region – About the Inuit Lapbooking Printables (Grades 2+)

Free Penguin LapBook Printables (Grades 2+)

The Snow Queen Copywork Pages! (Grades 2+)

Winter Rhyming Words Activity Printables (Grades 2-3)

The Arctic & Antarctica Free Calendar Fact Cards (Grades 2-6)

100’s More Winter Themed Printables

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