It's almost Christmas!! The holidays are fast approaching, and everything is red, green, white and sparkling! Here's a quick list of some easy Christmas activity ideas:
Decorate gift bags- Paint stamping with sponges, cookie cutters, etc. You could also have the kids stamp butcher or poster paper to decorate gift wrap. We added bulbs to the tree with q-tips. It's a fun way to make gift giving from them personal! And so cute!
Tape contact paper to a vertical surface, sticky side out. Make a tree shape around it with green painters tape or cut a tree shape and stick it on a piece of green poster paper- have the kids stick pom poms on it to “decorate” the tree. Can be reused until no longer sticky.
Make a wrapping paper sensory table- add various pieces of Christmas paper for the kids to cut up with scissors, ribbon strands to snip, bows to peel and stick
Other sensory table fillers: Cut up craft foam and felt for sensory bins- green, red, and white pieces for Christmas, white for “snow” theme, shapes of brown for a hot cocoa theme, various blues and white for snow/cold theme. Add colored gems, jingle bells, plastic coffee cups and tongs to fill the cups with, and other items to correspond with the theme.
1:1 correspondence Christmas counting and fine/bilateral motor task- buy mini stockings from Walmart ($.96 for 4), unbreakable tiny ornaments (also found at Walmart), mini gifts (Hobby Lobby), and pom poms to sort into stockings. Make individual cards with the number of items/colors/shapes to put into each stocking. This si also good for motor planning/direction following/following a sequence.
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| Tiny stockings from Walmart |
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| Tiny gift ornaments from Hobby Lobby |
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| Small shatterproof ornaments from Walmart |
Use Washi tape to decorate a Christmas tree shape or triangle tree. Draw lines on the trees for them to place the tape on, or let them be creative with how they decorate it.
Use magnetic tiles to build a “gingerbread” house or a tree (with triangles)- have the kids decorate what they build with magnetic discs (bingo chips), metallic pipe cleaners, jingle bells, paper clips, round circle magnets
Decorate a large felt Christmas tree- there are inexpensive commercially made trees and ornaments that can be bought and hung up in the classroom (I found this one that I gifted to my great nephew on Amazon), the ornaments can be rearranged and changed. You could also easily make your own out of felt, or make small individual trees and ornaments.
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| Great nephew Ridge decorating his tree |
Sugar/salt trays with Christmas sprinkles mixed in- have the kids make shapes, letters, numbers in the tray. Provide cards for kids to look at when forming them.
Make an ornament out of a paper plate- make a foam or construction paper ornament top and a ribbon loop- have the kids add stickers or glue foam pieces on it to decorate
Here are links of previous activities from some older posts:
