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Winter Themed Preschool Art Activities

Preschool children will know that winter is the coldest of the four seasons, when the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer. They know that cold weather brings wind, snow and ice, as well as changes in the environment around us when plants stop growing, and small animals like frogs and bats hibernate. Use creative, educational art activities to reinforce what preschool children know about the season of winter.
  1. Handprint Pine Tree

    • Make a snowy pine tree from a child's handprints.

      Teach preschoolers about pine trees and other evergreens that have leaves, or needles, even in winter. Trace the child's hand prints on green construction paper six times. Cut out the hand prints. Glue them together to form a pine tree shape, the fingers acting as pointed branches. Paint the edges white for snow that settles on the branches.

    Paper Plate Snowman

    • Make a snowman from two paper plates. Glue the plates together to make a snowman shape. The preschoolder should then draw eyes, a mouth and buttons on the snowman, using a black pen. Next, draw and cut out two twig arms from brown construction paper. Glue to either side of the snowman. With orange construction paper, draw a carrot-shaped nose, cut and glue to the snowman. Draw a scarf on construction paper--let the child choose the color--cut out and glue to either paper plate to conceal the join.

    Glitter Winter Scene

    • Create a sparkly winter image. Have the child draw a winter scene on black construction paper with a pen. Apply glue to areas where the child would like to place glitter--on the ground, trees or icicles. Sprinkle glitter all over the paper before the glue dries. Shake off the excess glitter, set aside and allow the glue to dry.

    Paper Snowflake

    • Make a simple but special snowflake out of white paper.

      Make paper snowflakes using a white piece of paper. Cut out a fairly large circle from the white paper. Use a compass for a perfect circle (an adult should do this). Ask the child to fold the circle in half, then fold in half again, so you have a quarter-circle. Have the child draw patterns with pencil around the edge of the folded paper and help cut the patterns. Unfold to show a snowflake.

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