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Figure Skating Mini Unit w/ Free Printables

Figure skating is the perfect winter unit

These delightful figure skating activities with free printables are designed for children in Montessori preschool and early elementary classrooms.

They are designed to meet the needs of all children, no matter their skills and abilities and provide so many wonderful ways to help with self-regulation and fine motor development while learning.

Figure Skating Mini Unit with Free Printables

Last week my plan was to replace all hockey themed activities on our shelves with figure skating activities.  However, the boys were LOVING their activities.  


Princess enjoyed them too, but was very anxious to start figure skating activities.  She helped me put some of them together and couldn't wait to use them.  


I decided to do a figure skating mini unit, and add new figure skating activities to the already existing hockey activities.  


The older kiddos have access to Sunshine's activities too.  


Figure Skating for Tots and Preschoolers with Free Printables

Figure Skating Activities for Tots and Preschoolers with Free Printables


Between all shelves, they had quite the variety of activities to choose from.

Here's what we added to our shelves!

Figure Skating Mini Unit with Free Printables


Figure Skating Window Writing Practice


Figure Skating Window Writing Practice


The kiddos have been working hard to learn their cursive letters this year using Montessori Sandpaper letters.  After practicing for quite some time, I thought we'd try out our skills, using Crayola Window Markers.  


I kept seeing figure skaters doing figure eights in my head.  I thought practicing cursive was the perfect corresponding activity. 


I included the sandpaper letters in the activity as a reference in case the kiddos needed to practice with them, before writing the letters on the window.

Figure Skating Spelling Words


Figure Skating Spelling Words


Princess loved these figure skating spelling words to use with the movable alphabet.  


The boys loved them too after watching figure skating one night on TV with me.  


They were super excited to learn that boys figure skate too, and are pretty great at it.

Source:  I created the printable for this activity. The Figure Skating Unit Printable Pack is a free printable. For your copy, click on the link at the bottom of this post.

Figure Skater Weighing Activity


Figure Skater Weighing Activity


Finding figure skating materials to use during our unit proved to be incredibly difficult.  I searched everywhere in town to find anything.  


During my last desperate, I found an ice skater ornament at Kohls on clearance.  The ice skater was the perfect addition to our weighing activity!


We absolutely love our scale.



Figure Skating Multiplication


Figure Skating Multiplication


Since the kiddos did so well with hockey multiplication, I thought we'd add figure skating cards to our shelves.  I love how they turned out!

Source:  I created the printable for this activity. The Figure Skating Unit Printable Pack is a free printable. For your copy, click on the link at the bottom of this post.

Figure Skating Greater Than/Less Than


Figure Skating Greater Than/Less Than


Last week, when I introduced the hockey themed greater than/less than cards, I realized the kiddos had forgotten how to answer them correctly.  I'm hoping more practice this week will jog their memories.

Source:  I created the printable for this activity. The Figure Skating Unit Printable Pack is a free printable. For your copy, click on the link at the bottom of this post.

Figure Skate Cut, Glitter & Glue


Figure Skate Cut, Glitter & Glue


It's been a while since I put a cutting activity on our shelves.  When glitter is involved, everyone will cut!  


The kiddos cut out the figure skates (or hockey skates), glued them on to the construction paper, and then decorated with glue and glitter.

Source: The printable for this activity was found online.

Figure Skating Sensory Bin


Figure Skating Sensory Bin


When I asked Princess what she wanted to include in our figure skating unit, she said she wanted a sensory bin.  Not only did she request this activity, but helped me put it together as well.  

The bin includes:


I just love how this bin looks and feels.

These figure skating activities are so much fun for kids and perfect during the winter season. 

We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

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3 comments:

  1. I'm a figure skating coach, mother of a two year old, and I do Montessori at home. I flipped when I saw this! So creative! Love it!

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  2. What a beautiful way to introduce children to figure skating!!! I love that you expose your children to so many different areas of life and support their interests!!!

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  3. Great ideas to figure skating. I think my son will excited with it

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