Winter: EYFS/Early Years activities, Displays and ideas

❄️ Step into a wonderland of learning with our 'Winter' resources, designed to embrace the magic and unique characteristics of the colder months! Kickstart your planning with our comprehensive Winter Topic Plan Ideas and explore the season through all five senses with our My Winter Senses Booklet. Discover animal behaviours with engaging Hibernation banners, fact cards, and games, or learn how to Help Wildlife in Winter with feeding posters, activity cards, and 'Decorate a Bird Box Multimats'.

Winter Wildlife & Outdoor Exploration

Track Footprints in the Snow with our animal footprint puzzles and matching cards, and venture into the chilly landscape with our Polar Animals collection, featuring masks, counting puzzles, and 'Feed the Penguin' pencil control activities. Head outdoors with Outdoor Winter Explorers banners, Winter Walk Checklists, and our Winter themed Woodland Wildlife Walk resources, complete with fact cards on woodland birds, trees, and animals.

Winter Maths & Creative Fun

Boost numeracy with Winter Number Cards (using natural items), Number Subitising Posters, Snowflake Number Lines, and a variety of Winter Number Slice Puzzles. Engage in creative play with Winter Decorate Multimats, Snowball Counting Playdough Mats, and Winter Pom Pom Mats. Spark imagination with 'Design Your Own Snowman Template' and 'Happy Holiday Cards'.

Winter Clothes & Organisation

Learn about staying warm with 'Keeping Warm in Winter' Banners, Winter Clothes Colour Match Memory Games, and essential Weather resources like 'What Clothes Will You Take?' activities. Develop fine motor skills with 'Feed the Robin' Pencil Control Sheets and 'Winter Fine Motor Leaves'. Plus, organise your classroom with our 'Winter' themed Self Registration Displays and 'Well Done!' Certificates. Get ready for a season packed with educational and fun-filled activities! 🧤

Please scroll down to browse our Winter themed activity ideas, printable educational materials, planning inspiration, display resources, classroom & setting management tools and much more! If you’re looking for Preschool, Nursery, Childminder, Reception, SEND or Home Education resources for 0-7 year olds, you’ve come to the right place! Our interactive and engaging EYFS and KS1 learning resources are lovingly made (including original hand drawn images) by early years teaching and learning experts; a husband and wife team. We hope it helps! 😊

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Free Sample Resources
Featured resources
key Winter sub-topics:
- Snow
- Hibernation
- Helping Wildlife in Winter
- Footprints in the Snow
- Polar Animals - New!
- Winter Clothes here and here and in our Clothes topic here.
- Outdoor Winter Explorers here and here
- Winter Maths
- General ‘Winter’ Resources
Winter themed ‘Get Organised’ resources
Additional ‘Winter’ related pages you may be interested in…
- Topics - Fireworks - Forest School - Houses and Homes - Nursery Rhymes - Polar - Space - Traditional/Fairy Tales - Weather - Autumn - Spring - Summer
- Festivals and Celebrations

FREE SAMPLE RESOURCES!

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STEM - WINTER Challenge Cards (Free Sample)

UK GARDEN BIRDS COLOURING (Free Sample)

FEED THE ROBIN PENCIL CONTROL MATS (Free Sample)

'HELPING WILDLIFE IN WINTER' POSTER (Free Sample)

HAPPY HOLIDAY CARDS - VERTICAL (Free Sample)

WINTER 2-PIECE PUZZLES (Free Sample)

WINTER BIG & SMALL COLOURING (Free Sample)

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Please note that both Editable (docx file) and non-editable (pdf file) versions are available for all ‘Winter’ topic resources. (Editable files require Microsoft Word to work at optimum level and Non-Editable files require a pdf viewer.)