We have done loads of holiday activities with Lily's teachers to learn about Christmas and all its parts. Here are a few that Lily loved:
1) Two sets of foam stocking ornaments and all the parts. Lily had to tell her teacher what she wanted on her stocking, like a cuff, buttons and a wreath, and then her teacher told Lily what she wanted on her stocking. A language and listening activity.
2) Clifford's First Christmas Book - A new favorite!
3) Building a candy cane out of beads and a pipe cleaner, which became an ornament.
4) A listening activity where we had foam tags and wrote activities on them. Then Lily would either pull them off or put them on the tree and do the corresponding activity. Of course the string that was supposed to hook the ornaments on the tree suddenly became a jump rope. Lily loved jumping over (at 2-3 inches) and crawling under the rope.
5) A small tree with hundreds of mini ornaments, garland, stars, etc. which we sorted through and discussed.
We have done loads of holiday activities with Lily's teachers to learn about Christmas and all its parts. Here are a few that Lily loved:
1) Two sets of foam stocking ornaments and all the parts. Lily had to tell her teacher what she wanted on her stocking, like a cuff, buttons and a wreath, and then her teacher told Lily what she wanted on her stocking. A language and listening activity.
2) Clifford's First Christmas Book - A new favorite!
3) Building a candy cane out of beads and a pipe cleaner, which became an ornament.
4) A listening activity where we had foam tags and wrote activities on them. Then Lily would either pull them off or put them on the tree and do the corresponding activity. Of course the string that was supposed to hook the ornaments on the tree suddenly became a jump rope. Lily loved jumping over (at 2-3 inches) and crawling under the rope.
5) A small tree with hundreds of mini ornaments, garland, stars, etc. which we sorted through and discussed.
6) Fisher Price Christmas scene with Santa and his sleigh, a hot chocolate stand and an ice skating rink.
7) Matching cards of kids doing things with the objects they wanted for Christmas and putting them in the mailbox for Santa Claus.