Winter Break Printables
Updated
Winter break is long enough for skills to slip and too short for anyone to want a workbook. This collection is built for the days at home around the new year: snowy puzzles, cold-weather coloring, and a few quiet pages that keep reading, writing and number sense ticking over. None of it is tied to a particular holiday, so it suits every family, and all of it is free.
One page a day is plenty. Most links open with a winter word list, story or picture already filled in; change anything you like before you print and the sheet updates straight away.
Snowy word puzzles
A winter word puzzle is the gentlest way to keep spelling going over the break. Words such as blizzard, icicle and snowflake are vivid enough that children enjoy hunting for them, and long enough to be worth practicing. Hand the word search to younger children and the crossword to anyone who reads independently.
- Winter word searchGeneratorSled, scarf, icicle and other cold-weather words to find across, down and diagonally, with an answer key on the second page.
- Winter word scrambleGeneratorSnowy words with jumbled letters and a short hint for each, and the unscrambled answers printed as page two.
- Winter crosswordGeneratorTen cold-weather answers, from mittens to hibernate, with clues children can puzzle out and a completed grid to check against.
Winter reading and science words
A little reading over the break keeps fluency up without feeling like homework. The snow-day story leaves out its winter words for children to fill back in, the matching sheet pairs science words like hibernate and migrate with what they mean, and the Venn diagram asks children to compare winter and summer in their own words.
- Snow day fill-in-the-blank storyGeneratorA snowy morning, a closed school and a sled ride, with the winter words blanked and gathered in a word bank.
- Winter science word matchingGeneratorEight winter science words — hibernate, migrate, sleet, evergreen and more — to join to their meanings, with the key on page two.
- Winter and summer Venn diagramGeneratorA blank two-circle Venn diagram titled “Winter and summer”, for sorting what belongs to each season and what the two share.
Snowman and mitten coloring
Cold-weather coloring is a calm, screen-free hour on a snowy afternoon. The snowman and the mitten below are revealed square by square — by matching numbers for younger children, or by solving an easy sum first for older ones — and the winter word art turns snowy words into outline letters to color.
- Snowman color by numberGeneratorA snowman with a hat, scarf and carrot nose, colored by number. No reading needed.
- Mitten color by additionGeneratorA blue mitten with a heart on it, hidden behind easy addition facts that children solve before they color.
- Winter word artGeneratorSnow, sled, cocoa and other winter words in a circle of outline letters to color; edit the list to add your family's favorites.
Keep skills warm over the break
Ten minutes a day keeps handwriting and number sense from fading before school starts again. A page of small sudoku puzzles exercises logical thinking, the cursive sheet practices joined writing with winter words, the letter S page gives younger children a snowy letter to trace, and the January calendar helps everyone see when school begins.
- Snow-day sudokuGeneratorFour easy 6x6 sudoku puzzles on one page — a gentle step up from 4x4 — with the solutions on the following page.
- Winter words in cursiveGeneratorSeven winter words to trace in cursive, each with room to copy it, for children learning joined letters.
- Letter S tracing worksheetGeneratorCapital and lowercase S, for snow, sled and scarf — a short tracing page for the youngest children at home.
- January 2027 calendarGeneratorJanuary on one page with New Year's Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday, January 18) marked, ready for planning the new term.
- Guide: how much handwriting practice per dayGuideWhy five to fifteen short minutes beats one long session, and how much suits each age.