Winter Phrases
You’re on thin ____
What is Ice?
The hot sweet drink is a wintertime favorite for children and adults.
What is Hot chocolate?
Nice children get presents, while naughty ones get coal.
What is Christmas?
Bears, Bats and Snails do this in the winter to prepare for Spring.
What is Hibernate?
Light snow falling for short durations. No accumulation or perhaps light dusting. Associated with light swirling wind.
What are flurries?
This fun, winter activity involves throwing cold spheres.
What is a Snowball fight?
This country has won a gold medal at every Winter Olympics.
What is the United States?
"Feeling really sick" is this.
Under the ________
What is weather?
This spice is commonly used in gingerbread cookies.
What is Ginger?
Children get 8 nights of gifts
What is Hanukkah?
What dapper animal looks like it is wearing a tuxedo?
What is a Penguin?
This form of precipitation consists of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
What is Sleet?
This winter activity involves gliding on ice wearing special shoes.
What is Ice skating?
This Olympic sport involves a sled, high speeds and a mountain track.
What is Luge or bobsledding?
I slept so well last night, I was out __________.
What is Cold?
Christmas candy made for 300 years, typically red and white like a barber's poll, is used as a sweet treat or decoration.
What is a Candy Cane?
For the Chinese New Year, young people are given money in envelopes of this color.
What is Red?
These white, huge, and furry animals withstand the cold temperatures.
What is a Polar Bear?
What are dangerous winter storms, snow accumulation and heavy blowing snow and wind with low visibility.
What is a Blizzard?
You can create when you lie on snow and flap your arms.
What is a Snow Angel?
The Winter Olympics are held every ___ years.
What is every 4 years?
That’s just the tip of the __________.
What is Iceberg?
A winter drink is made with egg, milk, and a lot of sugar.
What is Egg nog?
UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand celebrate with gifts on December 26th.
What is Boxing day?
An Arctic Fox's fur turns this color during the winter.
What is white?
Storm results with at least .25” of ice on exposed surfaces. Hazardous driving and walking.
White out, Black Ice or Ice Storm
What is an Ice Storm?
Dogs are essential for this winter sport.
What is Dog sledding or Iditarod
This sport includes jumps called a lutz, and axel, and is on ice.
What is figure skating?
I’m no good at meeting new people, I can never seem to break __________.
What is the ice?
360 million of these are consumed each year on New Year's Eve.
What are glasses of champagne?
This African holiday "first fruits", celebrates family, harvest, and unity.
What is Kwanzaa?
The endangered feline species that are white with spots. They cannot roar, and have paws that are natural snow shoes.
What is Snow Leopard?
Temperature measurement based on rate of heat loss from skin caused by wind and cold.
What is Wind chill?
This is the most efficient way for individuals to traverse deep snow over long distances.
What is Snowshoeing?
This country hosted the first Winter Olympics.
What is France?
(timing) In the __________ of winter.
What is Dead of Winter?
In 1910, a man named Robert Falcon Scott left a fruitcake behind in this unexpected part of the world.
What is Antarctica?
In Spain, eat 12 on New Years Day to make sure you have good luck.
What are Grapes?
This "slow" moving creature goes underground during the winter when the temperature goes below the freezing level.
What are Slugs?
Being temporarily unable to see due to UV light reflecting from snow.
What is snow blindness?
Those who love four wheeling can do this winter activity instead.
What is Snowmobiling?
This was the year of the first Winter Olympics.
1900, 1924 or 1939
What is 1924?
To not talk to someone is to give them the Cold __________.
What is the Cold shoulder?
In this country, is it now traditional to eat at KFC for Christmas dinner.
United States, England, Germany, Philippines or Japan
What is Japan?
What Asian holiday takes place in Winter and celebrates with fireworks.
What is Chinese New Year?
Instead of a nest, Emperor Penguins incubate their eggs here.
What is top of feet?
Sunsets are more dramatic during the winter due to the lack of this.
What is humidity?
This Winter team sport is played on ice and involves a broom.
What is Curling?
This country has the highest all-time total medal tally at the Winter Olympics.
USA, Russia, Norway or Germany
What is Norway? (368 medals: 132 gold, 125 silver, and 111 bronze)