Winter Games

This month our games were centered around winter.  Below are what we played!  The first three games are pictured below.


1.) Snowman Toss
For this game, I found some great yarn pom-poms that the kids could use instead of beanbags.

2.) Snowman Cup Knockdown
I found this idea here, and instead of using styrofoam cups, I filled clear cups up with tissues.  I let the kids stack them up and knock them down with their hands.

3.) Snowman Kleenox Box Stack and Knockdown
I took some square Kleenox boxes and covered them with white paper and made each one a part of a snowman.  Then I let the kids to stack them up and knock them down.  Its a great way to teach the kids what part of the snowman goes where and they always enjoy getting to knock things down.

4.) Snowflake Soup
The other game we played was snowflake soup.  I took our big cauldron and filled it up with water and snowflake foamies.  Then I took two slotted spoons and let the kids dip out the snowflakes.  This was probably their favorite game, because of the water!


5.) Penguin Matchup
For this game, I printed out the letters to spell PENGUIN.  I hid the penguins in rice and let the kids dig them out and match them to the letters I had taped to the table.  The kids really liked this, but made a mess with the rice, which is to be expected.  You can find the full set of the penguin alphabet letters on this website.

6.) Penguin Color Matching
All you have to do for this wonderful game is just print and cut it out!  I thought the kids would really like this, but they seemed confused with the color words on the penguins. You can tell this by the picture below, but I still think it's a really cute game!  You can find it on this website.

6.) Snowman Patterns
This game is super easy to prepare, just print, cut out and you're ready!  The kids seemed to like this one.  You can find it at this website.

7.) Snowman Putt-Putt
I forgot to take a picture of this game, but I made a snowman head, and cut out a round hole for his mouth.  I taped him to a box, and stood him up.  We have a kids putt-putt set that I will pull out periodically.  I rolled out white paper, and set my snowman at the end.  You can roll out some red paper for the tongue, but I didn't do that this time.  I think this and the snowflake soup were tied with the rice for top games with the preschoolers.