These Winter Olympics lesson plans make fun winter activities, craft ideas and classroom resources for thematic units for learning about the olympics and creating a unit study for your winter curriculum!
Includes winter olympics sports lessons, Olympic free printables, ideas for free lesson plans, writing prompts, and learning about different aspects of the winter games — enough to make fun Olympic games unit studies or have fun while watching the Opening Ceremony and different winter sports.
Winter Olympics Lesson Plans and Activities for Kids
We have a wide range of ideas – from olympic lesson plans for preschool / olympics lesson plans for kindergarten and up — even middle school lessons and high school activities!
Check out the full list of classroom olympics worksheets, olympic coloring sheets, and fun winter olympic hands-on activities for kids below (be sure to scroll to the bottom, too!).
Winter Olympics Lessons Ideas
Winter Olympics Classroom Activities:
- Learn about the history of the winter Olympics with a history of the olympics lesson plan
- Create a timeline of the history of the games
- Play Olympics bingo
- Study the history and geography of the host country with worksheets
- Do an internet scavenger hunt on the different Olympians
- Create your own olympics with winter olympics physical education lesson plans
- Do hands on activities and design your own Olympic medals
- Play name the sports trivia
- Create a olympic games activity booklet printable with free olympic worksheets and sports coloring sheets
- Study the different Winter Olympic sports
- Play olympic games activities for students
- Create an olympics schedule of sports to watch
- Understand the culture of the host country (including school children there, music, food, industry, etc.)
- Create a graph of differences between ancient olympics and modern olympics today
- Make country flags and celebrate during the winter olympics opening ceremony
- Learn some language of the Olympic host country
- Assign everyone a favorite olympian and virtually compete! Award medals at the end during your own closing ceremony.
Don’t miss our full list of Winter Olympics resources and ideas below!
History of the Olympics Lesson Plan
Before you start focusing on specific Olympic sports, you definitely want to do a history of the olympics lesson plan.
(The ancient olympics lesson plans are really interesting!)
• Learn about the history of Olympic games
• See a photo history of the Olympics
After that, move on to our list of the best winter Olympic activities for kids in the classroom and teaching the Olympics!
Winter Olympics Lesson Plans, Activities, Worksheets, and Printables for Olympic Themes
If you’re looking for Olympic theme ideas, here are some great Olympic resources to help you build a unit study on the Winter Olympics!
LEARNING NOTE: Unfortunately, as sites change and update and organizations lose access to grant money, the list here changes. I do my best to keep the things updated to relevant information. If you find otherwise, please let me know in the comments.
⭐️ When it’s time for Olympics, TV channels will televise the games! Be sure to check out the full Olympic’s television schedule so you can plan your viewing (you can also LIVESTREAM them online) as part of your learning!
Lessons for Olympics
• Download free winter olympics resources for educators
• Learn about the history of the Olympic rings and then Color the Olympic rings with free printable
• Learn about the Opening Ceremony (be sure to scroll down at this link to get fact sheets!)
• Learn about Famous Olympic Homeschoolers
• Learn more about the 15 winter sports in the Winter Olympics
• Create onomatopoeic sports poems
• Learn about the different mascots through the years and then Create your own Winter Olympics mascot!
• Understand how significant political events affect Olympic games
• Understand Olympic principals (“Olympism”)
• Review controversies in the Olympics
• Get free printable winter olympics coloring pages
• Learn about the Olympic truce
• See and learn about the Team USA’s Opening Ceremony Uniforms
• Learn about how they choose Olympic locations (aka: Olympic “hosts”)
• Do a Winter Olympics scavenger hunt
• Learn about the history of the Olympic torch
• Make your own Olympic torch craft
• Do a year-by-year history of the Olympics lesson plan
• Create a biography of famous Olympians (grades 3-8)
• Do an Olympics-themed math measurement lesson plan (grades K-5)
• Learn about the history of Olympic stamps and design a stamp to commemorate the Olympics
• Use a Venn Diagram to compare the Olympics today to Olympics in the past
• Take an Ancient Olympics quiz (grades 5-8)
• Learn about the history and design of Olympic medals
• Create medals, Olympic rings, and torches (grades pre-K-3)
• Make your own Olympic medals
ALSO CHECK OUT: OLYMPIC ATHLETES WHO ALSO HOMESCHOOLED!
Have fun with these Winter Olympics lesson plans and Olympic activities!
