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Winter Craft Activities for Children

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way… Winter is creeping upon us. Winter usually seems to be magical and full of joyful anticipation of the New Year holidays. It’s a great idea to do some winter craft activities, however, they should have their education purpose too. Below I’ll share some of the ideas for these types of activities for (very) young learners.

Christmas tree

Language: numbers, colours, toys.

Winter Craft Activities for Children
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Draw a Christmas tree or make it with coloured paper. Then, say a colour and students draw a bauble of this colour. Repeat for other colours. Ask students to draw presents too. Then tell students to count the number of baubles and presents they have. This activity gives the practice of colours and numbers. In addition, you can ask what presents there are and practise toys vocabulary. In the end, you can provide students with freer practice by asking what present they want to have and why.

Snowman

Language: figures, colours, clothes, body parts.

Winter Craft Activities for Children

Make a snowman. There are different ways: draw it or cut out parts of it and glue them; or use plasticine or playdough. Using this craft activity you can teach shapes: circles for the body, triangle for the nose, rectangle for arms and fingers, squares for buttons, etc. You can teach body parts while making your snowman. You can also teach colours and clothes. When you’ve made a snowman, dress him up: hat, scarf, jacket, mittens, jeans, socks, boots. The sky is the limit.

Winter Craft Activities: Snowflakes

Language: colours.

Winter Craft Activities for Children

Snowflakes are a great way to teach colours. You can make snowflakes using popsicle sticks, colour and glue them on each other. If you don’t have popsicle sticks, you can use coloured paper. You can also decorate snowflakes with small colourful buttons, glitter, tinsel and anything else you can think of.

Christmas lights

Language: colours

Winter Craft Activities for Children
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Another way to practise colours is to make Christmas lights. You can draw them, make thumbprints or make them of paper. Moreover, you use these lights for revision of any vocabulary (ask students to write down the words from the unit they remember) or to count down to Christmas (ask students to write numbers on them).

Winter Craft Activities: Animals

Language: animals

Winter Craft Activities for Children
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Winter craft activities are a great way to revise animals. Teach different animals first, read or listen to a winter story about animals and then ask children to make their favourite animal or make one from the story altogether.

Presents

Language: toys, colours, numbers, verbs

Ask students to draw presents they want to get for the New Year, have them describe their presents. Then, you may teach how to wrap presents. You can teach vocabulary for toys, colours, numbers (the more presents the better) and such verbs as “cut”, “fold”, “glue”.

Winter Craft Activities: Advent calendar

Language: anything

Winter Craft Activities for Children

I like using advent calendars to revise all the material we’ve learnt. The tasks can be different: listen to songs or chants, do some puzzles, do a craft activity, listen to a story, read something on the New Year topic, colour a tree, do a word search, guess winter riddles, play a board game, etc.

Look for some other ideas on Advent calendar for children

Below you can see an Advent calendar for online lessons.

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