Seasonal Toddler Activity — Winter Themed Toddler Trays

If you have a busy toddler, you know it can be hard to help them sit still. It’s something you learn again and again. If you are looking for something productive and fun for them to do we have made some seasonal activities for you child! Toddler school helps them learn through play. Toddler trays are a great way to keep their interest and learn about the world around them.

Making themed toddler trays for the seasons is extremely fun. We have 12 toddler trays, feel free to put them on low bookshelves or somewhere easy for your toddler to reach. These trays are winter themed, there are 12 trays and are great to have out for a couple weeks. This is my first toddler tray and I hope to do more for all of you. It will be fun to see how these go!

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Find out how these winter activities can teach your toddlers about winter
Discover how these winter activities can teach toddlers about winter
Learn how these winter activities can teach your toddlers about winter
Learn how these winter activities can teach toddlers about winter
Discover how these winter activities can teach your toddlers about winter

Here are all of the trays for this week:

  • Pattern Block Snowflakes
  • Snowflake Glitter Craft
  • Color Matching with Paint Chips
  • Transfer Blue Flat Marbles
  • Snowflakes fall on the ground
  • Color Games 1 and 2
  • Tot Book
  • Winter Printables
  • Featured Toy – something
  • Themed Books – something
  • Felt Snowflake Kit
  • Shaving Cream and Glue Snowman

Pattern Block Snowflakes

What You Need

How to Play

Print out the snowflake pattern block templates and have your toddler put the right blocks on the pattern to make the snowflake shapes. Or just let them play with the pattern blocks. 🙂

Teach your toddlers about winter using these awesome winter activities

Snowflake Glitter Craft

What You Need

How to Play

Draw a snowflake design with the white crayon on the black paper. You can have your toddler glue over the lines you draw, but they may not be able to do that. Just let them glue the way the want. Then help them sprinkle glitter over the glue. When the glue dries, pour the extra glitter off of the page.

Use these unique winter activities to teach toddlers about winter
Teach your toddlers about winter using these fun winter activities

Color Matching with Paint Chips

What You Need

How to Play

Make sure you have four different colors of paint chips and have two paint chips for each color (we used white, dark gray, dark blue and light blue). Have your toddler pick up the chip, find the matching chip and then put the match into the bow.

Use these great winter activities to teach your toddlers about winter

Transfer Blue Flat Marbles

What You Need

How to Play

Put two bowls on the tray. Fill one with the blue flat marbles. Have your toddler use their fingers to transfer the blue flat marbles from one bowl to the other bowl.

Use these fun winter activities to teach toddlers about winter

Snowflakes fall on the ground

What You Need

How to Play

If you want to, you can put the brown construction paper around the bottom of the juice bottle so it looks like the ground. Have your toddler drop the cotton ball “snowflakes” into the juice bottle “ground”.

Teach toddlers about winter using these fun winter activities
Color Game 1 – Egg Carton Color Matching and Color Game 2 – I Spy Cards

I’ve done separate posts on these color games as part of the Color Games for Toddlers series. Click the links to see more about them! Color Games 1, Color Games 2

Toddler Book

Print out Winter Toddler school book. It has simple phrases and uses sight words. Don’t expect your toddler to learn to read by looking at this book. This book is intended to help them gain a love of reading. You can read this to them throughout the week and point out the words as you read them.

Use these fun winter activities to teach your toddlers about winter

Winter Printables

Build a Snowman (Snowman Preschool Pack part 2, page 6) Your toddler doesn’t need to use the dice, just have them put the snowman together.  Color Winter clothes (Winter Fun pack – coloring winter clothes). Let them color the pictures with the correct color of crayon.

Use these awesome winter activities to teach toddlers about winter
Use these unique winter activities to teach your toddlers about winter

Featured Toy

Mega Bloks (these are normally in the play area. I will simply have them on a tot tray to make them extra special. We’ll see how that works 😉 ).

Use these great winter activities to teach toddlers about winter

Themed Books

Teach toddlers about winter using these great winter activities

Felt Snowflake Kit

What You Need

How to Play

Print out the snowflake kit, cut the pieces from the white paper. Let your toddler make their only snowflakes from the pieces, or they can just play with the pieces of paper.

Teach your toddlers about winter using these great winter activities

Shaving Cream and Glue Snowman

What You Need

How to Play

Use these instructions to make a puffy paint snowman. Have the paint already made and let your toddler do the painting.

Use these awesome winter activities to teach your toddlers about winter

This will be our first week of toddler school so I will be sure to let you know how it goes. Let me know if there is anything specific that you would like to see in a toddler school post or if you have a toddler school question and/or idea. You can also find more toddler school ideas over here! Toddler school, here we come!