December Toddler - Preschool Activities
Homemade Stockings
Collect long, clean socks in bright colors. Have your kids decorate their socks with red and green permanent markers and by gluing on holiday ribbons, bows etc.
Holiday Lanterns
Cut 5x5.5 inch rectangles from foil. Cut tissue paper into small pieces and cover the foil with the tissue paper. Attach to toilet paper rolls. Punch holes in the tops of the tubes and attach pipe cleaner for a handle.
Holiday Foam Stencil Cards
From a craft store, buy the foam shapes in holiday themes or buy foam sheets and cut out your own holiday shapes. Fold pieces of construction paper into cards and glue the foam shapes on the cover to make cards.
Recycled Cards
Toddlers will enjoy recycling old Christmas cards to make new cards. Use other items like ribbon, other pictures, beads etc and make new holiday greeting cards.
Christmas Picture Matching Game
Find wrapping paper with repeating designs. Cut out pairs of different designs. Cover each with self-stick paper. Mix up the designs and let toddlers have fun finding the matches.
Holiday Sewing Cards
Cut the fronts off greeting cards. Punch holes around the edges of the cards and tie a shoestring to one of the holes. Let toddlers use the cards to learn to 'sew'
Rudolph Faces
You'll need brown construction paper. Have kids trace around their hands on their papers. Cut the hand shapes out to use as antlers. Using brown construction paper, cut a large triangle and place on table with point down. Fold the two top corners down for ears. Glue the hand shapes at the top of the triangles. Glue black and red circles on the triangles for eyes and red noses.
Reindeer Sandwiches
You'll need: bread, celery sticks, peanut butter, raisins, cherries. Slice each celery stick halfway down and refridgerate overnight in a bowl of water. The celery will curl outward to look like antlers. Next day, lightly toast the bread to make spreading peanut butter easier for little kids. Remove the crust from the bread and cut it twice diagonally to make four triangles. Spread the peanut butter on the toasted bread triangles. Place the points downward, add two raisins for eyes, a cherry for a nose and two celery sticks for antlers to make a reindeer sandwich.
Reindeer Paper bag Puppet
You'll need a brown paper lunch bag, construction paper, glue, red pom poms, felt markers, and googly eyes. Leave the bag closed. Put your hand inside to make a puppet. Now, put your puppet on a table and take your brown construction paper. Trace your hand and cut out the shape to make antlers. Glue the antlers to the top of the puppet. Glue a red pom pom for a nose and googly eyes onto your puppet. With markers, draw a mouth and any other reindeer stuff you want on your puppet!
Paper Plate Snowman
You'll need two paper plates, black, orange, and green construction paper, red pom poms, markers, glue, ribbon, and googly eyes. This is an easy craft project for toddlers or preschoolers. Cut the outer rim from one of the plates. Glue the smaller plate to the larger one to make a head and a body. With your black paper, draw a top hat and boots shapes. Cut out and glue to the plates. With your green paper, draw mitten shapes, cut them out and glue to snowman. Glue your googly eyes on the snowman's head. Glue the red pom poms on the larger plate for buttons. For a cute carrot nose, draw a long triangle from the orange paper and cut out, glue to snowman. Now to make your snowman stylish, tie a bow from your ribbon and glue on his neck!
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