Week 3: Christmas

Decorated cones

Instead of gingerbread houses, we decorated cones.  We also had station where everyone could wrap presents, and reopen them.  Both activities were so fun.  The Christmas activities were super fun, and I'm sad that it's over so soon.

Week 2: Christmas

Everyone lining up before we go into singing time.

This week we did a lot with ornaments.  We made Christmas ornaments.  One day we decorated the ornaments with glitter sticks, and the kids were really fascinated using glitter again.  The next day we actually mixed the ornaments and each child picked a color to mix in.  They were really cute, and I put the initials of the kids in the ornaments.  We also had some fun learning centers, especially the center with green play dough.

Week 1: Christmas

Today we decorated Christmas trees with glitter and pom poms.  This is the first time the kids played with glitter, and they loved it.   The pom poms alone would have been boring I think.  We read stories on Christmas and even got to play outside.  On Tuesday was decorated Gingerbread men and then ate them up.  I sent some samples home to share with their moms.  Christmas is so much fun!  It's too bad there are only 3 weeks this month.  I might sneak some activities into January.

Week 4 - Thanksgiving

We made popcorn, talked about Thanksgiving, and made little turkeys from cups.  The kids love the Ice Cream play dough center as well, and they were really good about following all of our rules to take care of the play dough and share.