1. 12 books of Christmas
Around the 1st of the month we wrap up 12 Christmas stories and place them under the tree! Starting on December 13th we unwrap one book a day until Christmas!
Supplies Needed:
-Wrapping paper
-Tape
-12 Christmas Books
-Scissors
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2. Sensory bags
We love sensory bags! Mess free sensory play is our favorite.
Supplies Needed:
-Gallon zip lock bag
-Clear gel
-Pom poms and stickers as needed
-Marker
3. Present Color Sorting
This activity helps us distinguish and sort through our colors. Construction paper was cut to look like presents and then we use yard sale stickers to teach sorting.
Supplies Needed:
-Construction Paper
-Laminating Sheets
-Yard sale stickers
4. Crafts
So many crafts so little time.
Supplies Needed:
-Snowman felt
-Markers
-Stickers
5. Indoor Snowball Fight
This was a HUGE hit with our kids! Found this 15 bucket of indoor snowballs for $10 at big lots! The boys loved them! Practiced playing catch and aiming at the target.
6. Play dough Christmas tree
Supplies needed:
-Green play dough
-Pom poms
-Bells
-Christmas Tree Cookie cutter
7. Elf Scavenger Hunt
Found this scavenger hunt in the hot spot at target! Set up these little elves all around our school room and keep track on our data in on the sheet below! Teaches our kiddos to follow directions.
8. Sensory Bottles
Supplies Needed:
-Bottle
-Glitter
-Food coloring
-Add ins like bells, Pom poms etc
9. Present Letter Recognition Activity
For this activity we wrapped up a box and cut a hole in the top. We placed a laminated construction paper with a lower case letter on one side and an uppercase letter on a bow to practice letter recognition.
Supplies Needed:
-Bows
-Wrapping paper
-Construction paper
-Laminating Sheets
-Laminator
-Letter stickers
-Velcro dots
10. Felt Christmas Tree
Found this on Amazon for $15! Made with Velcro so the kiddos can decorate the tree again and again.
11. Sensory Bin
Supplies Needed:
-Snow Filler
-Pom poms
-Other fillers like presents etc
12. Fingerprint Christmas Activity
This is an Usborne book and a great sensory activity for any kiddo!
13. Nativity
Learning about the true meaning of Christmas is incredibly important in our household and hands on learning is always the best way.
Supplies:
-Little people nativity
14. Letters to Santa
This is a great activity to practice handwriting, spelling names and learning our address! Honestly, for my 5 year old we are just writing our name and learning our address and mommy 3 year old will literally just love putting the letters in the mailbox.
15. Academic Christmas Learning
We have loved both of these activities I found on teachers pay teachers this season! The activity to the left is rhyming Christmas words. Vincent is still struggling with rhyming so we added this visual to see if it aids with that. You simply print, laminate and add Velcro dots to the back.
The activity to the right is a speech activity that I also found on teachers pay teachers. This works on building sentences. There was both visuals and words to print off, I chose to just stick with visuals to see how we do this week.
16. Christmas Themed Sand Tray
Vincent has loved using the sand tray to practice writing his letters and numbers. What a fun sensory activity!
Supplies:
-Sand tray (I found this at the hot spot at target but you could actually grab sand and a wooden tray at your local dollar store if this isn’t in season at target!)
-Christmas tags (We used these to write numbers on to practice writing. There are a million ways to do this. We just had some extra and wanted a Christmas theme!)
17. Floor is Lava
Vincent LOVES a YouTube channel called the floor is lava. It’s all about these kids who are playing in a fort and all of a sudden the floor turns to lava, they have to go to different colors in the room to be “safe.” We started playing this at home and he loved it! A few weeks ago we added sight words and he ate it up. So this week we made our sight words Christmas themed!
Check out our tiktok asdmama1017 to see how our floor is lava game went!
Supplies:
-construction paper
-sight words strips
-I found these colored sleeves at target hot spot several months ago! They work GREAT! But literally a piece of construction paper would work great.
18. Kindness Mailbox
Again I found some tags pretty cheap, wrote some “good deeds” on theme and threw them in this dollar tree mailbox. Everyday we open up the mailbox and draw one. Sometimes, it’s an activity we do right away but typically we set it aside and plan it for the evening.
Some of my ideas include finding presents for family members, drawing pictures for grandparents, baking cookies for neighbors and some of them literally say “clean up your toys.” You can adjust to your children’s age and ability but we will definitely bring this back year after year! It helps remind our children the real meaning of the season.
Supplies:
-Dollar tree mailbox
-Gift Tags
19. Cookie Jar
This activity allows us to work on colors and fine motor skills. This activity is geared more towards my 3 year old who is still working on colors.
Supplies:
-Dollar Tree “Cookie Shop Box”
-Cookies (I used the cookies from our Cookie Monster toy but again you could use construction paper or whatever you have around the house).
20. Christmas Tree Ornaments
So many ornaments, so little time. There are so many skills you can work on with Christmas ornaments! Fine motor skills, patterns, colors, hand eye coordination, letters, numbers, the list goes on.
Supplies for Candy Cane:
-Pipe cleaner
-Red and white beads
-Bell if wanted
Supplies for snow globe:
-Jar ornament found at dollar tree
-Fillers like pom poms and stickers all came from dollar tree too
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