The Best Fun & Easy Winter Crafts for Preschool Kids
Winter brings snowflakes, mittens, and plenty of reasons to get crafty! This season is the perfect time to introduce preschoolers to simple projects that are as fun to make as they are to admire.
Whether you’re looking to celebrate the snowy season or keep kiddos busy on a cold afternoon, these ideas are packed with creativity. As a bonus, these winter crafts offer many benefits to your kids…..especially building fine motor skills.
So, let’s take a look at my favorite winter crafts for preschool kids.
Snowflake Crafts
There’s something magical about snowflakes—they’re delicate, unique, and a favorite part of winter for kids and adults alike!
Snowflake crafts are the perfect way to bring that magic indoors. These simple and creative projects let preschoolers practice cutting, folding, and decorating while learning about the beauty of winter. Plus, the the fun winter craft is a great way to get young children to help you decorate your classroom or home for the holiday and winter season!
Popsicle Stick Snowflakes
Grab some craft sticks and a hot glue gun to create the base of a snowflake, then let the kids take over the winter or holiday craft. They can begin with a layer of wintery paint, then adorn their snowflakes with cool decorations like pom-poms, sequins, glitter glue, or rhinestones.
Kids of all ages will have so much fun personalizing their popsicle sticks snowflakes in endless ways. Even older kids will enjoy getting creative with unique touches like buttons, mini rubber bands, or little seashells!
Paper Snowflakes
Who doesn’t love making paper snowflakes? With a simple snowflake template, even little hands can create beautiful designs while practicing their cutting skills. They make perfect decorations for the classroom or a holiday party! ….so much fun!
coffee filter snowflakes
Thin and slightly transparent, coffee filters make gorgeous snowflakes. After folding and cutting the filters into snowflake shapes, your preschoolers can decorate them with washable markers. Add drops of water, and watch the colors spread, creating soft, watercolor-like effects.
Hang them in a window for a stunning winter decoration!
Beaded Snowflake Ornaments
Use pipe cleaners and plain old pony beads, or get really fancy and make crystal snowflake ornaments. Whatever type of bread you choose, this beaded snowflake craft is a great fine motor activity for kids.
You can also use pony beads to make a snowflake necklace craft.
Torn Paper Snowflake
Paper-tearing arts and crafts are super easy to prep, and kids love them. Use a printable snowflake, or just draw one on a piece of construction paper. Provide scrap paper and a glue stick, and your kids will have a blast creating a torn paper snowflake.
Hole Punch Snowflake Craft
These printable snowflakes are perfect craft for kids to decorate! They can color them, punch holes, and add sparkly touches like gems, glitter glue, or sequins.
Turn them into ornaments with a ribbon loop or make a festive bunting by stringing them along a ribbon.
Arctic Animal Crafts
Arctic animals are a favorite winter theme for preschoolers. Here are some crafts that bring these animals to life in a fun way. From playful penguins to cuddly polar bears, these projects are a fun way to spark conversations about the unique animals that thrive in icy habitats.
Penguin Craft
A cut-and-paste penguin craft is a great way for preschoolers to practice cutting and gluing skills. This one even includes some hole-punching for extra fine motor practice! Kids will love creating their own adorable penguins while building important hand-eye coordination skills.
Polar Bear Craft
Kids will love this cut-and-paste polar bear craft! They can decorate it with cotton balls for a fuzzy look, add googly eyes, or turn it into a fun headband by attaching it to a strip of paper.
Snowy Owl Craft
Try a snowy owl craft activity like this one from Happy Toddler Playtime. Using a fork, kids can apply white paint to black paper in a feathery effect. Then, all they need to do is add simple eyes, a beak, and feet.
Arctic Fox Craft
How cute is this arctic fox made from paper plates by I Heart Crafty Things? I love how the tissue paper adds some texture to the furry creature.
Winter Tree Crafts
I’ve been living in Texas for 10 years now, and we don’t have large evergreen trees down here. This sounds really weird, but I enjoy seeing them when we visit our family in the north. I guess I took them for granted in the past. It’s a bonus if they have a little bit of snow on them. Here are some crafts to celebrate winter trees.
Snowy Trees
Use white paint to add “snow” to evergreen trees cut from green construction paper. You can use puffy paint, pom poms, cotton balls and more to add texture and color to the trees.
Stop by this post about Easy Christmas art activities for preschoolers to learn all the different ways or techniques you can use to add paint to the winter tree projects.
Dig into your craft supplies, and I’m sure you’ll find some things you can use for a Christmas tree collage art project. Here, we used fake snow, cotton balls, and white tissue paper.
Christmas Tree Name Craft
Use a real or fake evergreen branch to paint a background for a Christmas light name craft. It’s a fun craft for the holiday season.
Snowman Crafts
What’s winter without a snowman? Snowman crafts are a classic, and they’re perfect for preschoolers! From building them with simple shapes to decorating them with fun materials, these snowman activities bring all the joy of snow play indoors—without the cold.
Cut and Paste Snowman Craft
Kids can practice their scissor skills while creating these cut and paste snowman crafts.
Snowman Headbands
Printable dot sticker activity strips can be used with stickers or dot makers to make a variety of snowman crafts.
Snowman Paper Chains
The small dot sticker strips are the perfect size to make fun seasonal paper chains.
Icicle Craft
Get out the pipe cleaners and beads again. This time, you can make a simple icicle craft. Kids can add some beads to the pipe cleaner and then show them how to wrap it around their finger or pencil to make a swirly icicle craft like this one from Taming Little Monsters.
Snowglobe Craft
Get a pack of clear plastic plates from the party store and make a DIY snowglobe, like this one from Red Ted Art. Add a picture of each child in the background, and add some buffalo snow before gluing the plate to the background.
Hot Chocolate Craft Ideas
Here is another fun cut-and-paste winter craft…complete with mini marshmallows. Kids can add their own designs to the mug.
Hot Chocolate Name Coloring Sheet
Wanna super low-prep hot chocolate craft? Try this name coloring sheet. It’s really easy to customize the name art page to add a child’s name. Then, all you have to do is supply crayons, colored pencils, markers, or watercolor paints.
Mitten Craft Activities
This name craft activity is the perfect way to give kids name practice during the winter months. The set includes two options. The first option includes a coloring page where kids can punch holes in the border. Then, they can get cutting practice as they cut out the snowflake letters and paste them to the mittens in the correct order.
You also have the option of printing the mittens on brightly colored paper and pasting all the parts to a construction paper background.
Well, I hope all these winter crafts for preschool gave you some inspiration for projects to make with your kids this winter.
Purchase Printable Winter Craft Templates in the Store
Are you ready to get started making winter crafts with your preschoolers? You can purchase these printables from the store to help you out.
Purchase The Winter Craft Printables on TPT
Do you prefer to shop at Teachers Pay Teachers? You can also purchase the winter craft printables in my TPT store.
