Winter Collection: Curriculum Volume I ~ 114 pages

Immerse your preschoolers and kindergarteners in our complete Winter Collection Curriculum for your best value and their maximum fun!

Winter Collection Curriculum Volume 1 features 114 pages of wintry wonder, bursting with every activity in our Day & Night, Migration, Hibernation & Adaptation, Pine Trees & Pine Cones, and Mittens, Hats & Hedgehogs Bundles. We’ve classroom-tested each curriculum activity in our play-based preschool to ensure it is engaging, fun, and effective in developing your children's academic, intellectual, and creative play skills. Your early learners will remain delightedly engaged for up to eight weeks of daily play-based education, using math, literacy, science, cooking, art, sensory play, and fine and gross motor skills to explore all of the nature-based activities below:
 

DAY & NIGHT – ART & PLAY

SENSORY PLAY

Daytime Sky Sensory Bin

Nighttime Sky Sensory Bin

Diurnal Animal Habitat Sensory Bin

Nocturnal Animal Habitat Sensory Bin

Nighttime Play Dough Activity + Recipe

Transient Art Activity: Loose Parts Sky

 

ART

Exploring Black & White: Marble Painting

Exploring Black & White: Collage

Fine Art: Foil Painting The Starry Night

Fine Art: Mirror Painting The Starry Night

Fine Art: The Starry Night Shaving Cream Swirls

 

DAY & NIGHT – LITERACY

Day & Night Reading List

6 Day & Night Poems & Songs

Build A Shoe Box Puppet Theater

Five Little Stars Song/Play

Star Tracing

Building Words Activity

Alphabet Matching Activity

 

DAY & NIGHT – MATH
Counting Craters Game

Rays of Sunshine Game

 

DAY & NIGHT – SCIENCE

Diurnal v. Nocturnal: Animal Sorting

Observe, Compare & Contrast: Day & Night Skies

Learn: Moon Phases

Experiment: Moon Phases

Create: Oreo Cookie (or Circular Toast) Moon Phases

Cooking: Pretzel Stick Stars

Cooking: Moon Rice Cake

Cooking: Sunshine Snack

 

 

MIGRATION, HIBERNATION & ADAPTATION – ART & PLAY

SENSORY PLAY

Winter Is Coming Sensory Activity

Hibernating Bears Sensory Bin

Hibernation Sensory Bag

 

ART

Paint Splat Bear

Paper Tube Goose

 

MIGRATION, HIBERNATION & ADAPTATION – LITERACY

Migration, Hibernation & Adaptation Reading List

5 Poems & Songs

Shared Reading Experience: Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson

Story Summary: Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson

Storytelling: Re-Tell & Act Out Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson

Bear Den Letter Matching Activity

 

MIGRATION, HIBERNATION & ADAPTATION – MATH
Bear Den More or Less Game

Find It! Dice Game

 

MIGRATION, HIBERNATION & ADAPTATION – SCIENCE

Learn: How Animals Prepare for Winter

Consider & Record: How People Prepare for Winter

Migration, Hibernation & Adaptation Animal Sorting

Learn: Goose Migration

Experiment: The Flight of the Geese

Cooking: Bear Paw Cookies

 

 

PINE TREES & PINE CONES – ART & PLAY
FINE MOTOR PLAY

Wrapping Pine Cones

Snipping Pine Needles

Pine Tree Sewing “Card” Activity

 

SENSORY PLAY

Exploring Pine Cones STEM Play

Cinnamon Pine Cone Soup Sensory Bin

Maple-Cinnamon-Salt Sensory Bin

Pine Tree Oobleck + Recipe

 

ART

Painting with Pine Cones

Painting with Pine Needles
Colored Ribbon Pine Tree Art

Painted Paper Pine Trees
Tissue Paper Pine Tree Activity

 

PINE TREES & PINE CONES – LITERACY

Pine Tree & Pine Cone Reading List

4 Pine Tree & Pine Cone Poems & Songs

Letter Forest Activity

Building Letters & Words

 

PINE TREES & PINE CONES – MATH
Counting Pine Cones

Counting By 5s Game

 

PINE TREES & PINE CONES – SCIENCE

Learn & Investigate: Two Types of Trees

Coniferous Tree Facts

Life Cycle of a Pine Tree

Experiment with Pine Cones

Cooking: Chocolate Pine Cones

 

 

MITTENS, HATS & HEDGEHOGS TOO! – ART & PLAY

FINE MOTOR PLAY

Clothes Pins & Mittens Clothes Line Activity

Tonging Snowballs

Play Dough Maze

 

SENSORY PLAY

Hedgehog Habitat Sensory Bin
Winter Wonderland Sensory Bin

Hedgehog Play Dough Activity + Recipe
 

ART

Glue Splat Hedgehog

Grow a (Grass) Hedgehog

Fork-Painted Hedgehog

How to Draw a Hedgehog

 

MITTENS, HATS & HEDGEHOGS TOO! – LITERACY

Reading List

6 Poems & Songs

What Is A Folktale?

Story Summary: The Mitten by Jan Brett

Story Summary: The Hat by Jan Brett

Compare & Contrast Stories

Learn About the Author: Jan Brett
Storytelling: Re-Tell The Mitten Activity

Storytelling: Re-Tell The Hat Activity      

Mystery Mitten Letter Sound Game

Mitten Rhyming Game

 

MITTENS, HATS & HEDGEHOGS TOO! – MATH
Mitten Counting Game with Spinner

Hat Counting Game

 

MITTENS, HATS & HEDGEHOGS TOO! – SCIENCE

Facts About Hedgehogs

Label the Parts of a Hedgehog

Hedgehog Stories: Fiction v. Nonfiction

Cooking: Crunchy Hedgehog Snack

Cooking: Hedgehog Peanut Butter Balls

Pair this with Winter Collection Curriculum Volume 2 for Harmony at Home’s definitive seasonal exploration of winter, and your children’s supreme early learning joy!
 

Our play-based winter curriculum is created for ages 3 to 6.

 

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