Monday, December 10, 2012

MONTESSORI CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE ONES


I wanted to share with you some fun activities I have been doing with my 2 little ones as we lead up to Christmas:
 
 
I printed off a Happy Birthday Jesus Advent for my daughter and cut it out and had her choose what color construction paper she wanted her Jesus cake to go on, she colored it some and then glued the Advent cake to the construction paper. I hole punched holes and tired yarn through it and hung it up and each day she takes a colored circle and places on that particular day.
 
 
Then for my 3 year old and 1 year old I printed several Christmas magnet pages off and put them in clear page protectors and gave them glass vase filler beads and had them complete the pages by filling in the glass beads.




During black Friday I grabbed this Christmas colored bag of pom poms. I laid them out along with tongs, a small measuring spoon, a clothes pin and a ice cube tray.
 
 My 1 year old transferred the pom poms over into the ice cube tray while using the tongs.
 
 
While my 3 year old transferred the pom poms into the ice cube tray using the tongs but matched them in both sides of the tray lastly my 5 year old transferred the pom poms into the ice cube tray using the clothes pin.

 
 
Stay tuned for our Christmas sensory box for little ones post!

 Sunday:
Living Montessori Now, Serendipity and Spice, C.R.A.F.T., Homemaker on a Dime, Boogieboard Cottage, Southern Institute
Wednesday:
It's Overflowing, Embracing Change, Fireflies + Jellybeans, DYI by Design

Thursday:
Friday:
Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers, delicate Construction, Homeschool Creations, Sunscholars, Gricefully Homeschooling, Living Life Intentionally, Dirt and Boogers, Hammock Tracks, Little Becky Homecky, Create Craft Love, Flaunt it Friday
Saturday


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19 comments:

  1. What fun! JDaniel used to love to transfer pom poms!

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  2. How clever these activities are and so special for the holidays. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. An interesting way to teach your kids--

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  4. Smart ideas for little ones and so perfect for the holidays! I always forget about the pom poms!

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  5. Very neat - thanks for sharing!

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  6. Great ideas! I'm going to do a few of these with my almost-two year old, we need some more fun ideas to take up time and learn.

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  7. This is great. Happy Birthday Jesus Advent Calendar is something we'd love here. Thanks for the idea!

    Blessings :)

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  8. We are doing a similar activity with the cake - we are using cotton balls and Santa's beard!

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  9. great fine motor skill activities thanks for sharing

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  10. Great idea for fine motor skills!!

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  11. What creative ideas! My kids would love to do activities like this and I would love to see them learn!

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  12. Great ideas. Love the pictures.

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  13. So cute! I love your awesome ideas!!

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  14. those glass beads look so enticing. i would want to play too.

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  15. Love this idea..also a very pretty picture.

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  16. Great activities, Nicole! I always love using glass gems with magnet pages. And I love the pom pom transferring with clothespins! Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com

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