Fun Polar Bear Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

Go fishing with the polar bears in this hands-on winter sight word activity! Grab the free printable and some magnets to make a literacy center or at-home activity they'll want to practice over and over.

If you read aloud the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? your kiddos might enjoy these free printable story sequencing hats. While the book is about a variety of animals, it does start with a polar bear!

These free printable alphabet worksheets feature fun facts about 7 different arctic animals, including polar bears. Students use dot markers to stamp the letters, and then they can ask their grownups to share the "Read to Me" section with them.

These ice skating polar bears can encourage your kids to trace and match uppercase and lowercase letters. Grab your free printable and see all the ways to play.

Go on a polar bear walk to build alphabet recognition. This hands-on gross motor activity will get winter wiggles out while also building early literacy skills.

This Polar Bear spin and stamp printable is another fun, interactive activity for preschoolers who are learning the ABC’s!

Practice matching upper and lowercase letters with this super cute, polar bear letter matching game! Children will help each polar bear find its "matching" iceberg - is that cute or what?!

For older students, these arctic animal fact sheets are a wonderful resource. You can read about making them into some fun games or a cut and paste report too.

Dive into your stash of craft sticks to make this cute polar bear craft, along with a few other arctic animal friends. There's a printable template to make prep super easy for you. These sturdy crafts can also double as puppets.

Here's a quick and fun polar bear craft - it includes a printable template.

Turn your little ones' hands into works of art with this handprint polar bear craft.

Look how cute these marshmallow polar bears are. Your kids will be excited to finish this craft!

Introduce the kids to the basics of origami and make some lovely Origami Polar Bears. The post includes a helpful, easy-to-follow video that walks you through how to make these.

Or, if you'd rather turn your paper folding into a polar bear bookmark, you can follow along with this tutorial. Kids could even make up a set of these to send to relatives to cheer them up this winter.

I LOVE this Floating Icebergs Polar Bear STEAM Activity. I think your kids will really enjoy this quick and easy sensory activity.

Can you build a house for a polar bear? Challenge children to design a home using simple and fun materials.

Counting and learning numbers can be easy and fun for preschoolers! This Polar Bear Math Game adds a little gross motor movement in for Kinesthetic learners and to help keep kids active and moving throughout the day.

Children can learn firsthand about how polar bears stay warm with this clever science experiment!

Here's another way for kids to explore how polar bears (and other marine mammals like whales) stay warm in frigid temperatures. You can perform this simple science experiment using household materials! Learn all about blubber and how it helps polar bears in several ways.

Here's another cool variation of the blubber experiment...

Roll the dice and try out this engaging polar bear math game for preschoolers.

Kids can explore the cold icy weather of the arctic with this easy polar bear sensory bin.

Talk about how polar bears spend time in the water and on land with this Polar Animals Sensory Bin

I LOVE this clever arctic animals sensory bin, and I think your littles will too. This one would work especially well if you have real snow to add to it, but that's not even the coolest thing about it ...