3. Activities Curriculum Plan for Early Years Foundation Stage – Why is it cold in winter?
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
 Adult Led Focus – Make a verbal timetable of things that happen in winter on the IWB. Can the children
remember any festivals of occasions that happen in winter e.g. Christmas?;
 Indoor Continuous – Provide a camera or mirror and some winter pictures. Encourage the
children to choose a picture and make a face to show how that picture makes them feel.
 Outdoor Continuous – Play a winter themed game of hide and seek or ‘Pass the Snowball’.
 Outdoor Continuous – Provide winter themed dressing up clothes.
Literacy
 Adult Led Focus – Provide winter-themed pencil control mazes.
 Adult Led Focus – Use winter word mats to help children write about their favourite things to do in
winter.
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Adult Led Focus – Sing ‘The Winter Song’ and extend the verses.
Adult Led Focus – ‘It’s Snowing’ winter action rhyme.
Indoor
Continuous - Provide page borders in the writing area.
Outdoor
Continuous – Use snow dough to shape letters.
Mathematics
Communication & Language
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Adult Led Focus
- Watch the story ‘The Snowman’ and follow up with book-based activities.
Adult Led Focus - Look at some animals that live in the Arctic and Antarctic and make a list of words.
Adult Led Focus - Winter clothes – what’s in the suitcase?
Adult Led Focus - Winter explorer activity.
Adult Led Focus - Label a penguin.
Understand the World
Adult Led Focus - Look and act carpet activity.
Indoor Continuous - Laminate a small world background and provide arctic animals to go with it.
Indoor Continuous - Discuss ‘How to Build a Snowman’ sequence cards.
Outdoor Continuous – Arctic role play masks and any fur costumes.
Outdoor Continuous – Create an ice fishing station.
Physical Development
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 Adult Led Focus – Make stud patterns in satsumas with cloves and string up as decorations.
 Adult Led Focus – Play winter-themed bingo.
 Indoor Continuous – Winter size ordering pictures.
 Indoor Continuous - Provide a counting sheet with a winter theme.
 Outdoor Continuous – Provide a snowflake number line.
 Outdoor Continuous – Provide winter maths challenge cards.
Adult Led Focus - Go for a walk and take a Winter Checklist.
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Adult Led Focus – Make winter bird feeders.
Adult Led Focus – Go on a winter scavenger hunt.
Indoor Continuous – Design your own winter clothes.
Indoor Continuous – Set up a small world ‘cold lands’ area.
Outdoor Continuous – Make winter ice art.
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Adult Led Focus - Freezer coloured water in ice cube trays with lolly sticks, use them to paint on paper.
Expressive Arts & Design
Adult Led Focus – Jack Frost Tag Game/ Winter Snowman Throw activity/ Ice Jump activity.
Adult Led Focus - Winter Vegetable Soup activity.
Adult Led Focus – Snowflake threading activity.
Indoor Continuous – Provide ‘How to Make a Paper Snowflake’ on the creative station.
Outdoor Continuous – Make glittery playdough and provide winter play dough mats.
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Created by Michael Tidd 2013
Adult Led Focus – Make bark rubbings.
Adult Led Focus – Filter coffee snowflakes/frost patterns/snowflake printing/jigsaw snowflakes.
Indoor Continuous – Polar animals colouring sheet.
Indoor Continuous – Provide winter-themed photos for children to create their own
pictures/paintings.
Outdoor Continuous – Play the soundtrack to ‘Frozen’ and provide a stage and a microphone.
Outdoor Continuous – Welly Printing.
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