Marshmallow Trees is one of our favorite crafts! Day 8 – Activity Advent Countdown Draw the shape you want your child to create on a piece of paper. Have your child bite a marshmallow in half and stick the uneaten half onto the paper. It looks so cool when they finish. N (23 months) …
Day 7 – Activity Advent Countdown This coloring Christmas lights printable from SchoolSparks.com is great for working with ordinal numbers.
Day 5 – Activity Advent Countdown This snowman ornament craft was a hit with B. You need a craft stick, 3 buttons, craft foam for the nose and hat, and a piece of fabric or felt for the scarf. Thanks to A Day of Wonders for sharing this craft idea with us!
Christmas Alphabet Book (printable) Day 4 – Activity Advent Countdown Today we are decorating and reading our Christmas Alphabet Books that we printed from Tip Junkie. Tip: Color before cutting and making into a book.
Snowman Dice Game (printable) Day 3 – Activity Advent Countdown Materials: Snowman Game Board from Making Learning Fun 10 cotton balls dice How to Play: Roll the die. Put the corresponding number of snowballs onto the game board. When the board is filled up, you win! Other Ideas: *Roll to take them off *If …
Make this paper plate angel for the top of your Christmas tree or Christmas table decoration. Day 2 – Activity Advent Countdown This paper plate angel craft from Nurture Store is so simple to prepare and such a neat decoration for the kids to make. Start with a paper plate and draw the lines on it …
Christmas Lights Color Matching (printable) Day 1 of the 2011 Activity Advent Countdown This Christmas lights matching printable activity from Tons of Fun was the perfect way to kick off our Christmas Countdown! If you don’t have pom poms you can use beads, blocks, toy cars, or crayons to match to the lights. To make the …
Jill (from Shafer Family Blog), gave me the idea for this Christmas tradition, count down to Christmas with books. This is our second year doing it (in addition to our Activity Advent Countdown) and we LOVE it! Collect all of your child’s Christmas books and wrap them each individually. We put ours under the tree …
I’m so excited to bring you my annual, printable Activity Advent Countdown! I used ideas, printables, and resources (list below) found around the web to make counting down to Christmas fun and educational! 2011 Activity Advent Countdown 1. 1. Christmas Lights Color Pom Pom Matching (scroll down) 2. 2. Make a Paper Plate …
My Turkey is a fun rhyme to “sing” with your child in the month of November. My Turkey I have a turkey, Big and fat. He spreads his wings And walks like that. And when he talks, He sounds like this, Gobble, gobble, gobble!
Here’s a great idea for Halloween Scissors Practice! If you have extra Halloween stickers (or any extra stickers at all), this is the activity for you! Use the extra stickers to make cutting strips. Challenge your child to cut in between each sticker. Thinner strips allow your child to be successful at cutting the strip …
Here are several mini plastic pumpkin activities that you can prepare for your toddler or preschooler! Yesterday we counted straws into these plastic pumpkins. During this activity I couldn’t help but wonder what else you could do with these little plastic pumpkins. Use the same format as pictured above but with rhyming words, word families, syllables, beginning/middle/end sounds, or money. The …