Winter color activities that keep little hands busy all season long! The Winter Colors Pre-K Activity Set brings 8 hands-on color activities to your preschool, pre-K or prekinders classroom, perfect for your winter theme or winter learning centers.

Snowmen, mittens, hats and other cozy winter pictures help children practice 12 colors in many different ways. They clip, match, spin, sort, squish play dough and read a little color book. Along with color recognition, children build fine motor skills, beginning writing skills and sorting and classification skills.

With this winter colors pre-K set, you get

• 8 winter color activities for centers, small groups and independent practice
• 12 colors, including secondary colors like orange, green and purple
• Clip cards, a matching game, spin and cover games, play dough mats, sorting mats and a mini book
• Built-in fine motor and beginning writing practice
• Easy ways to make activities simpler or more challenging

Print, laminate and your winter centers are ready to go!

What's Included

• Winter Color Clip Cards: Snowmen
• Winter Color Clip Cards: Mittens
• Winter Colors Matching Game: Hats and Mittens
• 2 Winter Colors Spin & Cover Matching Games
• Winter Colors Play Dough Mats
• Winter Colors Sorting Mats: Primary Colors
• Winter Colors Sorting Mats: Secondary Colors
• Winter Colors Mini Book (winter hats)
• A second sorting mat without color prompting for each winter color sorting activity
• 12 colors included: red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple, pink, brown, gray, black, white and light blue

Why Teachers Love It

• Eight activities, one theme: A full set of winter color centers is ready in one download.
• Low-prep, hands-on learning: Print and laminate the color activities and they are ready for your math centers.
• Self-checking option: Put a colored dot on the back of each correct answer to make the clip cards self-checking.
• Built to grow with children: Each sorting activity includes a second mat without color prompting for more advanced students.
• Easy to adjust: Make the matching game simple or more difficult by changing the number of cards you use.
• Fine motor practice built in: Clothespins, play dough and coloring strengthen little hands while children learn colors.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Color recognition: Children identify and name 12 colors on snowmen, mittens, hats and other winter pictures.
• Sorting and classification: Sorting mats ask children to group winter pictures by primary and secondary colors.
• Matching: The hat and mitten matching game and the spin and cover games pair pictures of the same color.
• Visual discrimination: Clip cards ask children to find the one color choice that matches the picture.
• Color words: Play dough mats and the mini book connect each color to its written word.
• Beginning writing skills: Children trace the color words in the winter hat mini book.
• Fine motor skills: Clipping clothespins, rolling play dough and coloring build hand strength and control.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Taking turns
• Following directions
• Maintaining attention
• Remembering previous guesses
• Waiting during group play
• Working independently

How to Use It

Step 1: Print the activities you want and laminate them for durability. Cut apart the clip cards, matching game cards and sorting pictures.

Step 2: Model each activity in a small group. Show children how to clip the matching color, sort pictures onto the mats or fill a mitten with the matching color of play dough.

Step 3: Set the activities out in your winter learning centers. Select the colors you want for the winter hat mini book, then have children color the hats to match the words on each page and trace the color words.

Easy Differentiation

Preschoolers come to color learning with very different skills. This set makes it simple to give each child the right amount of support or challenge.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Begin with a few colors at a time, such as the primary colors sorting mats
• Use a small number of cards in the matching game
• Name each color together before children clip or sort
• Make the clip cards self-checking with a colored dot on the back of each correct answer

For On-Level Practice

• Rotate through the clip cards, spin and cover games and sorting mats during centers
• Have children fill each mitten with the matching color of play dough and name the color
• Read the winter hat mini book together after children color and trace it
• Add the secondary colors sorting mats once primary colors feel easy

For an Extra Challenge

• Use the second sorting mat without color prompting
• Add more cards to the matching game
• Choose less familiar colors, such as gray and light blue, for the mini book
• Ask children to read the color words on the play dough mats on their own

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Practice color words with a short sentence frame such as "This mitten is ___."
• Use the play dough mats for children building hand strength
• Offer the clip cards for pinch and grasp practice with clothespins
• Point to the matching color for children who are not yet saying color words
• Give extra processing time and model each step before children begin

Perfect For

• Preschool and pre-K classrooms
• Winter learning centers
• Math centers
• Small groups
• Partner games
• Fine motor centers
• Special education classrooms
• Speech and OT sessions
• Homeschool preschool

Standards

These winter color activities support the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (2021), and they build toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS and the Virginia SOL (Math 2023):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS L.K.5.a: Sort common objects into categories to understand the concepts they represent, such as colors.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.1: Sort objects that are the same and different, such as winter pictures by color.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.II.D.1: Use a wide variety of words, including color words, to label and describe winter pictures.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.IX.B.1: Show control in tasks that take small-muscle strength, like clipping clothespins and pressing play dough.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Math K.8.A: Collect, sort and organize objects into two or three categories, as on the color sorting mats.
• TEKS ELAR K.3.C: Identify and use words that name categories such as colors.

Virginia Early Learning and Development Standards

• Virginia ELDS CD3.4: Sort and classify winter pictures by color.
• Virginia ELDS HPD3.2: Develop small muscle control with clip cards and play dough mats.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD3.3: Handle writing tools while tracing color words in the mini book.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Math K.PS.1.a: Sort and classify objects by one attribute, such as color.

Add the Winter Colors Pre-K Activity Set to your cart and have 8 cozy color activities ready for your winter centers. Print, laminate and watch your preschoolers clip, match, sort and squish their way to color mastery!

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