WINTER Expressions
Winter Flavors
Winter Holidays
Winter Wildlife
Winter Weather
Winter Activities
100

Something extra that makes a good thing even better is the __________ on the cake.

What is Icing?

100

Traditional Christmas candy shaped like a hook.

What is a Candy cane?

100

On this holiday, nice children get presents, while naughty ones get coal.

What is Christmas?

100

Some animals do this in the winter to conserve resources when food is scarce.

What is hibernate?

100

Spike of ice formed when water falling from an object freezes

What are icicles?

100

The winter activity that involves hitting people with cold, white spheres.

What is a Snowball fight?

200

When you are close to getting in trouble you are ___________ on thin ice.

What is Skating?

200

A winter drink made with egg, milk, and a lot of sugar.

What is Egg nog?

200

This holiday celebrates the miracle of one night's oil burning for 8 nights.

What is Hanukkah?

200

This animal looks like it is wearing a tuxedo or suit.

What is a penguin?

200

The number of sides a snowflake has.

What is 6?

200

This winter activity involves sliding on the ice wearing special shoes that have blades.

What is ice skating?

300

That’s just the tip of the __________.

What is Iceberg?

300

Houses are made from this type of cookie

What is Gingerbread?

300

What is December 24th called?

Christmas Eve

300

What happens to the arctic fox in winter if it spends a lot of time in the snow.

What is, its fur turns white?

300

A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.

What is a blizzard?

300

What you create when you lie on a snowy surface and flap your arms and legs.

What is a snow angel?


400

I slept so well last night, I was out __________.

What is Cold?

400

North Americans top this vegetable with marshmallows at Thanksgiving.

What is Yams or Sweet potatoes?

400

Lunar or Chinese New Year is marked each year by one of 12 different ones of these.

What are Animals?

400

This small relative of the moose is known as a caribou in North America.

What is a Reindeer?

400

Condition when it is snowing so much one cannot distinguish the ground from the sky.

What is a white-out?

400

This type of dog is often used for dog sledding.

What is a Husky?

500

I’m no good at meeting new people, I don't know how  to __________.

What is Break the ice?

500

This melted cheese dish for dipping is great when it's cold.

What is Fondue?

500

The month in which Spring starts in the Northern Hemisphere

What is March?

500

The color of a polar bear's skin.

What is black?  (Their FUR is colourless and transparent, their SKIN is black.)

500

A dangerous condition in which the body's temperature is abnormally low.

What is hypothermia?

500

This is a sport of sliding down snow or ice-covered slopes.

What is Sledding or Tobogganing?

600

Snug as a ________ in a rug.

What is bug

600

A traditional Dutch winter sweet treat, made with dough, raisins and sugar

What is Oliebollen?

600

The proper name for the shortest day of the year.

What is the Winter Solstice?

600

The legend says that if this animal comes out of it's burrow and sees its shadow, it means we have 6 more weeks of winter

What is a Groundhog?

600

A dangerous condition when skin, especially hands and feet, gets so cold it could be damaged.

What is frostbite?

600

This activity involving walking over snow using a wide frame attached to the feet.

What is Snow shoeing?

700

To not talk to someone is to give them the __________.

What is Cold shoulder?

700

Hungarian people love to eat this warming stew when temperatures get cold.

What is Goulash?

700

In Japan this festival is known as omisoka.

What is New Year's Eve?

700

A large, powerful owl of the high Arctic tundra, colored for camouflage during northern winters.

What is a snowy owl?

700

This is world's snowiest country (most snowfall per year)

What is Japan?

700

Sport popular in Canada and Scotland where players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target 

What is Curling?