Winter Clothing Activities for Preschoolers

• Preschoolers can get ready for winter with fun activities involving winter clothes.winter coat image by Leticia Wilson from Fotolia.com
  
  Children dress differently for each season. During the winter months, preschoolers come to school bundled up. Some of them need help getting dressed while others may be able to manage on their own. These activities can help familiarize students with winter clothing and improve fine motor skills, which will help preschoolers get better at dressing themselves.
  
  

Winter Dressing

• Discuss why it is important to wear winter coats when it is cold. Tell students which months are in the winter. Ask children to share how they keep their coats closed. Some coats button, some snap shut, and others have zippers. Then give children time to practice putting on their coats. Tell children that they can ask for assistance from other children if their coats are difficult to close. Then ask students what other items they might wear to stay warm. Students may brainstorm hats, scarves, and mittens. Invite students to put on these items if they brought them to school. Then take everyone outside for a brief walk.
  
  

Make a Mobile

• Provide students with a worksheet that has pictures of winter clothing. Let students color the pictures and cut them out. Give each student a hanger that has pieces of yarn hanging from it. Tell students to glue each colored picture to a separate piece of yarn. When the glue is fully dry, hang the hanger mobiles in the classroom.
  
  

Dressed in Paper

• Give each child a paper doll to cut out. Then provide children with a sheet of paper clothing. Review the articles of clothing on the sheet and instruct children to dress their paper dolls by cutting them out and pasting the cut out clothing in the appropriate area. Although this activity might appeal more to girls, provide boys with a male doll figure and boyish clothing so that they enjoy the activity too.
  
  

Mittens or Gloves

• Take students outside and line up and give each of them gloves or mittens to wear. If it is cold, make sure all children wear coats. Tell students to stand in a horizontal line so that they all face forward with no child directly in front of them. Make a chalk or powdered line about fifteen feet away from the children. Then call out "mittens" or "gloves". If a child hears his piece of clothing called, he must run to the other line. This will help preschoolers learn to distinguish between mittens and gloves.