Winter Songs for Preschoolers
I love to teach songs and chants to my preschoolers. They enjoy music, especially ones that go along with the season! Today, I’m sharing with you some songs and chants about winter. These are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
Why Singing is Important
You may know that singing songs with preschoolers is a great way to introduce children to rhythm, rhyme, and singing. But did you know it also is great for the following benefits?
- Language Development – Songs introduce new vocabulary words to students, helps with pronunciation, and also improves comprehension.
- Social Skills – Singing in a group, such as circle time, is great for interaction with classmates, cooperation, and building a sense of community.
- Memory – Since songs often have repetitive elements, singing helps with memory!
- Motor Skills – A lot of preschool songs have actions to accompany the words. This is a fun way to incorporate gross motor skills.
- Literacy – Songs can help with pre-reading skills, like rhyming and phonemic awareness.
10 Winter Songs for Preschoolers
Whether you a teacher looking to incorporate music into circle time or a mom looking for songs to sing with their little ones, I hope you will find what you need with these 10 winter songs!
Snowball — This is a fun song that you can incorporate actions into! You could even have kids wad up paper into “snowballs” if you don’t mind a mess. 🙂
I’m a Little Snowman — A cute, simple song about a snowman!
The Mittens on My Hands — This would be a good transition song to sing while getting ready to go outside in the cold!
5 Little Snowmen — Here’s a fun chant to sing about 5 snowmen. You are practicing counting and rhyming while singing this chant!
The Mitten Chant — Love this cute chant about mittens!
10 Little Snowflakes — A great song to practice counting to 10!
Favorite Number Mittens — This is not a chant or a song, but it is a great transition idea when students are going to a new activity. I think it would be great to use if you have a group of students waiting in line for something, such as washing hands or getting backpacks.
Snowkey Pokey — It’s the snow version of the Hokey Pokey! It’s great for getting the wiggles out with little ones!
If you’d like to listen to the songs, check out the video below!
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Bonus Song
Check out this fun song about hibernation! This would be great to use with your winter hibernation thematic unit.
Winter Songs to Listen To
If you want to add music into your classroom by listening to songs, you must check out my winter Spotify playlist! My 3-year-old students LOVE music and dancing, so we make sure play songs on my Bose wireless speaker almost daily! This speaker is AWESOME. It has amazing quality sound and the battery lasts such a long time. It takes just a few minutes to set up initially, but then you are ready to start playing songs using bluetooth.
Here is what’s on my current winter song playlist:
- “Snowflakes, Snowflakes” by The Kiboomers
- “Snowman Freeze” by The Learning Station
- “I’m a Little Snowflake” by Ballet Preschool Party
- “Five Little Snowmen” by The Kiboomers
- “Where is Hibernating Bear” by The Kiboomers
- “North Pole Party Freeze Dance Game” by The Kiboomers
- “The Winter Hokey Pokey” by The Kiboomers
- “Snowman Kind of Day” by Nick Cope
- “Mitten Colors” by The Kiboomers
- “Jingle Bells Circle Time” by Kiboomers
More Songs and Rhymes
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i will let my kids listed these songs !
I am a preschool teacher and I just want to say that you are AWESOME!!! I LOVE ALL OF YOUR IDEAS!! Thanks so much for sharing!!👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks so much, Meagan!! You are so kind! <3
These songs are brilliant. It goes well with our topic clothing and dressing Winter theme.
These are such adorable little songs! I have a music class for a variety of young ages of home educated children. and these songs bridge the gap so nicely!! Thanks!
These are so cute! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing these cute songs. I´m a preschool teacher who works in Sweden. I might translate some songs to swedish. So excited!
Thank you very much. I teach young children in Denmark. Hope it’s ok og I use theese songs to teach them English 🙂
Wonderful! That is so neat!
Hello, I don’t quite understand how the ‘favorite number mitten’ activity works. Help!
The favorite number mitten activity is a chance for students to practice identifying numbers. To set up, have numbers written on mittens (which are cut out of felt or paper). Then hold two of them up. Ask the student which number is their favorite. After they reply, place that mitten down and pick up a new mitten (so you have two in your hands again). Then ask the next student which is their favorite number. And keep repeating with all the students. I picture this as a transition activity to do while kids are lined up and you dismiss them one at a time to do a task, such as wash their hands or get backpacks. Does that help??
These are perfect! I have been doing homeschool pre K with my 4 yr old and almost 3 yr old. They love to have monthly/seasonal songs. These will be great to share with our co-op as well.
So happy to hear this! Thank you for sharing!
These song are so stinking cute! Thank you! My son (almost 3) and I are always singing and making up songs, plus he’s on a serious snowman kick lately so the snowman songs are perfect!
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Yay! Thank you for your sweet comment! And so cute about your son! 🙂
Beautiful collection. Thank you for sharing!