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Christmas Activities


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How to Make an Exciting Salt Tray in No Time

Help kids who are learning the alphabet work on letter formation with a simple DIY salt tray. Increase their excitement and sensory input with these creative ideas for materials and mix-ins. Salt trays are a great fine motor activity and a low-stress way to work on writing letters...even for kids with low fine-motor skills. Here are tons of ideas for products and materials to use to make fun writing activities for your preschool and pre-k classroom #preschool #alphabetactivities #finemotor

It’s easy to make a DIY salt tray to help your kids work on letter formation. You can increase their excitement and sensory input with these creative ideas.

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The Best Way to Teach Kids to Make Paper Snowflakes

Making paper snowflakes is so much easier for young kids, when you use these snowflake cutting templates or patterns. Your kids will experience success...it's so much fun. So much more than a craft.... they are strengthening their fine motor skills and working on improving their scissor skills! Perfect for your holiday theme, winter theme, snow theme, Snowy Day theme unit and lesson plans in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. #winteractivitiesforkids #finemotoractivities #preschool

Making paper snowflakes is much easier for young kids, when you use snowflake cutting templates or patterns. Your kids will have a blast …plus it’s a perfect way to work on scissor skills.

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Gingerbread Man Printable: Alphabet Activities for Kids

Kids will enjoy this free gingerbread man printable alphabet activity. Several ideas for fun, hands-on alphabet and beginning sound activities are included. This is a perfect addition to you gingerbread man theme, gingerbread preschool theme, or Christmas holiday theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. A great addition to a Jan Brett book study, your kids will love these ginger bread activity ideas. #preschool #gingerbreadactivities #prek #gingerbreadtheme

Kids will enjoy this free gingerbread man printable alphabet activity. Several ideas for hands-on alphabet and beginning sound activities are included.

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Simple Science Project: Make a Jingle Bell Stick

Use this simple science project to explore sound with young kids. Make three jingle bell sticks and record observations on free printable recording sheet. This is a perfect STEM or STEAM activity or craft for kids in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. A great holiday or Christmas party activity. Supports a Christmas or 5 senses theme or unit in your classroom and the jingle bell sticks can be used as a circle time activity. #preschool #prek #preschoolholidayactivities #preshoolscience

Use this simple science project to explore sound with young kids. Kids can make three jingle bell sticks and record observations on free printable recording sheet.

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A Christmas Tree Printable for Your Kids: A Free Counting Book

This Christmas tree printable counting book is a quick and easy idea for your Christmas theme or Christmas tree theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Better than crafts or worksheets, your kids can complete the little counting book to take home. These books are perfect for your literacy, math, or writing centers. Kids will have fun counting the ornaments and they can write the number or print the number word. #preschool #prek #christmasactivitiesforkids

This Christmas tree printable counting book is a quick and easy idea for your Christmas theme or Christmas tree theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Download your copy of the free book today

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Christmas Gift Bags for Kids: Make DIY Santa Bags

Check out these fun easy to make DIY Christmas gift bags that you can make for your kids. There is no need to look for more ideas, these are perfect for a class gift or holiday party goody bag or favor. Check out the tutorial for the directions...they are simple. Your kids will love these homemade little Santa bags. #preschool #Christmasactivities #christmascrafts #christmasintheclassroom

Check out these fun easy to make DIY Christmas gift bags that you can make for your kids. They are perfect for a class gift or holiday party goody bag or favor. Check out the tutorial for the directions…they are simple to make and your kids will love them.

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Tinker Tray: An Easy DIY Gift for Kids

Are you looking for a simple DIY gift for kids? Make a fun DIY tinker tray box for them. These tinker boxes are perfect gift for a child in preschool or early elementary. It will encourage creativity. Kids will create process art or their own stem activities. Material ideas are included. Make a fun Christmas present, holiday gift, or birthday gif. Use the material list as inspiration to create STEM drawers or tinker drawers in your preschool classroom. #tinkertray #DIYchristmasgift

Are you looking for a simple DIY gift for kids? Make a fun DIY tinker tray box for them. These tinker tray boxes are a perfect gift for a child in preschool or early elementary.  This is a really unique gift that will encourage open-ended creativity.

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Snowman Crafts for Kids: a DIY Snowman Christmas Ornament

Looking for snowman crafts for kids?  Here is a great DIY snowman Christmas ornament for you and your kids to make.  The snowman ornament DIY project is a great activity to make for a school party or at home. A great project to add to your winter activities. Perfect for your winter theme, holiday theme, snow theme unit and lesson plans in preschool, pre-k or kindergarten. #snowmanornament #winteractivitiesforkids #preschool #kindergarten

Looking for snowman crafts for kids?  Here is a great DIY snowman Christmas ornament for you and your kids to make.  The snowman ornament DIY project is a great activity to make for a school party or at home.  

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Your kids will love running their fingers over these fun tactile letters. Find lots of ideas to make DIY tactile cards for your literacy learning centers. Perfect for teaching the alphabet to kids in preschool and pre-k classroom. Better than sandpaper....this is a fun sensory experience. The ideas will work for sight words as well. #preschool #alphabetactivities #sensoryactivities

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Use these custom name writing activity books to help your kids learn name recognition, letter recognition, and learn to write their names with a variety of activities. A child's name is the most important word in their life....and you can use it as an engaging way to teach concepts of print and early literacy. These books are easy to edit or customize and are easy to assemble. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom literacy centers. Use for back to school or year round
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These easy-to-assemble little alphabet letter books will give your kids a variety of ways to learn letter recognition, letter sounds, and letter formation. Whether you use a letter of the week or no letter of the week, kids love taking these little ABC books home. The simple, predictable text gives kids the opportunity to experience success with reading and starting dots help kids practice correct letter formation. Download your free sample book today. #alphabetactivities #preschool
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities
Use these fun editable crayon name puzzles to work on name recognition and a variety of literacy activities with your kids. Your class will love these personalized printable puzzles. Use them in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten class to work on name recognition, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition and learning a variety of pre-literacy skills. Perfect for your literacy centers. #preschool #nameactivities #alphabetactivities
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool

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