20 Winter Printables for ESL Learners (including a FREE Download)

Introduce your children to essential winter vocabulary words with colourful flashcards.

These cards typically feature pictures and matching words, such as “snowflake,” “scarf,” “gloves,” and “skiing.” 

Use them for matching games, memory challenges, or visual aids during lessons. For example, you could use them to play Pictionary, incorporate them in a vocabulary-themed tic tac toe, or play matching pairs.

They’re a great way to support word recognition and pronunciation.

Help your children connect visuals with words using themed colouring pages.

Each page includes a simple winter scene and a word to accompany it, like “snowman” or “ice.” 

Not only do these help children relax, but they’re excellent for practising fine motor skills while reinforcing winter-specific terms.

Plus they can be really fun to complete together!

Word searches are always an enjoyable activity for kids. This puzzle includes hidden words like “snow,” “sled,” or “scarf” focusing on a winter theme.

Word searches can help improve spelling and word recognition while keeping children actively engaged.

You can also find word searches to suit different English levels or use a template to create your own for the winter words your kids need the most help with.

With this worksheet, children can practise naming winter clothing items. They’ll identify and label items such as boots, hats, and coats. 

This printable is perfect for teaching practical vocabulary and can spark conversation about dressing for cold weather.

Turn it into a game by adding instructions whilst using your own winter clothing at home. For example, “put on your scarf” or “take off your hat”.

Encourage sentence construction with fun, hands-on activities.

These printables allow children to cut out words and rearrange them to form simple winter-related sentences, like “It is snowing” or “I wear a scarf.”

This helps with sentence structure, grammar, and creativity.

This activity focuses on supporting vocabulary recognition and spelling practice.

Sharing words such as “snowflake” or “gloves” that have been muddled up for children to recognise the letters and rewrite them in the correct order.

Bingo games with winter-themed words and pictures are a hit with early learners.

This activity makes ESL lessons lively and fun. Use simple vocabulary such as “igloo” or “boots” to keep it engaging but not overwhelming.

This printable has everything you need to turn this into a family fun activity with calling cards and different bingo sheets.

Use tracing sheets to help your kids practise writing and spelling winter words.

These sheets focus on words like “snow,” “scarf,” and “sledging.”

Tracing improves fine motor skills and helps young learners become more comfortable forming letters.

Story starters encourage creativity and language development.

This printable features 15 simple sentence starters like, “On a snowy day, I like to…” Children can continue the sentence to create their own stories.

This activity encourages sentence building and storytelling.

Incorporate being outdoors with a fun Winter-Themed scavenger hunt. With a list of words such as “snow”, “frost”, or “a frozen puddle” your children can enjoy spotting different items whilst gaining some fresh air. 

During or after the walk, you could use the scavenger hunt as a basis for conversation practice e.g. “what colour scarf did you see?” Or “how many snowmen were there?”

You can get a copy of this Winter-themed scavenger hunt with the Winter Activity Pack here.

Teach prepositions with fun, winter-themed pictures.

Worksheets might include prompts like, “The penguin is on the ice” or “The mittens are under the hat.”

This helps children understand spatial relationships and sentence structure.

Use this as a reference tool for your children by printing out a simple winter-themed picture dictionary.

With winter vocabulary words and matching images, this resource makes it easy for kids to review and remember new terms. It’s ideal for independent practice.

Teach weather terms like “blizzard,” “frost,” and “hail.”

These worksheets encourage kids to match words with pictures, describe winter weather, and even have a template for them to record their own local weather.

This type of activity boosts conversational skills, too.

Teach sequencing with a fun activity focused on making hot chocolate.

Printables include steps like “Add marshmallows” or “Heat the milk.”

It’s a great way to build vocabulary while introducing basic sequencing in sentences, not to mention rewarding as you get to enjoy drinking a delicious hot chocolate at the end.

Use these cards to teach animal-related words like “penguin,” “polar bear,” and “seal.”

You can also discuss how these animals adapt to winter, adding an educational twist to the activity.

They’re perfect for enhancing vocabulary with real-world connections and great for incorporating cross-curricular topics such as science and geography.

This Winter-Themed printable version of the popular children’s game I Spy will engage your children’s attention. 

With a colourful picture and associated activities, your children will learn and review Winter-Themed vocabulary and practice essential skills such as writing and grammar.

This is a really good activity to build speaking skills and storytelling, all whilst developing your children’s imagination. 

In this set, there are 2 story dice. One provides colourful pictures prompting children to create their own story.

The second is perfect for those who love arts and crafts. It includes black and white images for children to either draw or create with playdough / air-dry clay.

For children who need a bit of extra writing practice, these writing prompts provide a good template.

With photos to provide a basis of what to write about, and a vocabulary list to refer to, your children can use this to develop better writing skills and practise forming full sentences.

This simple board game will help your children practice winter-themed vocabulary words and speaking skills.

Players take turns rolling the dice, asking, and answering questions relating to winter. 

Combining several of these activities turns learning into a fun game with a printable escape room template.

Your children will complete different “quests” in order to help save a baby polar bear and return it safely home. During each activity, they’ll improve their vocabulary range and speaking skills.