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December is a special month for many reasons. We are going to say good-bye to one great year and welcoming another awesome year. The whole month is a holiday season, and one of the main festivals falls in this month. Yes!!!! Christmas and is full of celebrations all over the world. We also did some activities with a Christmas theme and thought to share it with you people. Are you excited to know them? This post is a combination of activities for both my kids, who are four years and 1+ years old. Come, let’s have a look at them.
Christmas activity for preschool kids
Santa beard shaping
Benefits
Finger grip, pre-writing skill, Scissor skill
Age
After 3.5 years
Materials needed
cardboard, paper, pen , child safe scissors
As my daughter loves both Santa and scissor cutting, I thought to mix up both the activities. She enjoyed doing this finger grip activity. I have made four different pre-writing patterns with the dotted line and ask her to cut through the line.
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Decorate the Christmas tree
Benefits
Imaginary skill development, pre-writing skill
Age
After 3.5 years
Materials needed
White board, marker, loose materials
I love this activity more than her, so I have joined her. We both enjoyed decorating a DIY Christmas tree. Draw a tree and ask the child to fill it up with loose materials.
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Christmas pre-writing skill
Benefits
finger grip, pre-writing skill
Age
After 3.5 years
Materials needed
paper, pen, loose materials
- This is one of the favorite activities of all time. She loves this pre-writing activity very much.
- Draw any design and provide many loose particles. Let the child arrange them over the line. She doesn’t want me to record her activity , so I couldn’t capture.
Christmas tree sight words
Benefits
Language development , Word recognition
Age
After 4 years
Materials needed
White board, marker and sticky notes
As we are learning sight words, we thought to implement the concept in our Christmas theme. It is an effortless sight word learning activity, and she loves it. Write a few sight words on sticky notes and write the same on the board as well. Ask the child to read aloud and match them. Some are familiar to her, and some are new sight words.
Narrate a story
Benefits
Imaginary skills, Language development, Open up in front of audience, FIne motor skills
Age
After 3.5 years
Materials needed
Paper, sickers
- I have provided a Christmas sticker book and ask her to create a Christmas scene by pasting the sticker on a paper.
- After pasting, ask the child to narrate a story as per the stickers. Not necessarily any real story of Christmas; let them come up with their imagination
- After pasting, she doesn’t want to narrate a story. Instead, she wants to sing a song that too in our family time. Oh yeah!! That’s a long pending post to talk about our family time. I will post it next week.
- We all sung a song all with our imagination and had a great time.
Santa hop – Number identification
- It is a very simple number recognition activity. Take a Santa sticker and paste it on a cup. Ask the child to hop the Santa cup in the sequence manner starting from 11 to 30 by reading aloud. It is a fun game to play and learn numbers.
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Christmas book recommendation
- As peppa is our all time favorite, we read two peppa books.
Christmas activities for Toddlers
Transferring objects
Benefits
Fine motor skill, hand-eye coordination, concentration building
Age
After 12 months
Materials needed
Cardboard box, pom pom, Christmas bells
- Draw a christmas tree on a cardboard and poke some holes
- Let the child transfer pom pom, bells through the hole.
- Transferring is a wonderful fine motor skill activity at this age for toddlers
Paste and peel
- Cut down any image.Here i did a Christmas tree
- Paste a cello tape upside down in the open area(Sticky side on top)
- Put some bells, any loose materials and ask the child the materials.