20 Winter Literacy Activities for Kids

Make learning fun with these super cute, fun, and FREE Winter Literacy Activities for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. With fun winter themes from snow, snowballs, snowmen, penguins, polar bears, hot chocolate, and fireplaces – students won’t be able to resist practicing counting syllables, tracing letters, letter matching, and more. These winter kindergarten ideas are perfect for adding to your lesson plan to make learning fun!  

Winter Literacy Activities

Kindergarten winter can be fun when you add in these super cute snowman themed, snowflake themed, and winter animal themed activities to work on alphabet tracing, matching upper and lower case letters, counting syllables, working on phonemic awareness with beginning sounds, and more! These winter literacy activities are fun for preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will want to try these free winter printables!

Winter Printables

Kick of your Winter lessons with an invitational Snowy Day Winter Sensory Tray ! Sip some hot chocolate while going on a Hot Chocolate & Marshmallow Letters Hunt. Do your kinders like coloring? Try these Winter Color by Letter Activities or practice letter formation with these Winter Find & Trace Letters. Tune those ears and listen for sounds and syllables with a Winter Syllables Activity. Cater for the sensory seekers with a Snow-themed Alphabet Sensory Bin, oh so fun!

Winter literacy activities kindergarten

Snowball Alphabet Sorting is a fun activity to develop letter recognition. Or, have a Snowball Fight indoors! Work with fun snowmen with a Snowman Spin & Stamp Alphabet Game or print out these Initial Sound Snowman Printables for sound recognition.

Match upper and lower case letters with the Snowman’s mittens or Trace & Erase Snowman letters! Work on word families with this Snowman Word Family Spinner.

Do your students love puzzles? Print out these Initial Sound Penguin Puzzles and let them find the pieces to work on initial sound recognition. Invite the polar bears to the learning fun with a Polar Bear Alphabet Match or Polar Bear Letter Tracing activity!

Have some fun indoors and burn of energy with Indoor Letters Ice Skating. Ice skating requires mittens, right? So grab the mittens and get tracing with Mittens Alphabet Trace or match Upper and Lower Case Mittens with felt mittens. Play a Mystery Mitten Letter Sound Game using a real mitten and your letters!

So many ways to make learning letters and sounds fun during the Winter! Which Winter-themed literacy activity will your kinders/students love most? Try it out today!