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Gingerbread Salt Dough Garland **25 Days of Christmas Play**
Day 14 of 25 Days of Christmas Play I’ve had this batch of salt dough mixed up (only the dry ingredients just waiting for a great day to make some ornaments. I wanted to try Gingerbread Scented Salt Dough for an added Christmas-y smell. We had the chance to mix this up yesterday…
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Tinsel and Christmas Bow Sensory Bin
This easy sensory bin ideas is a Christmas sensory bin, using something you might have around the home during the holiday season: Christmas tinsel and bows! Let’s explore how we used this sensory play activity to develop skills. Christmas Tinsel and Bows Sensory Bin Day 13 of 25 Days of Christmas Play I wanted…
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Doll House Christmas
Day 12 of 25 Days of Christmas Play We are busy preparing our house for Christmas and getting ready to Celebrate Baby Jesus’ birthday. The littlest girls in our house need to prepare their house too…their Doll House! I pulled out this glitter foam tree cut-out and a bunch of stick on decorations for Big…
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Homemade Nativity Set ** 25 Days of Christmas Play**
This homemade Nativity Set is entirely kid-make, and uses things you probably already have around the house. We love this Nativity for it’s creativity inspiring craft, and imagination play that is sure to follow. This would be a great group craft too-for a Sunday School class. Make this DIY Nativity now and play all Christmas season! …
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Peppermint Play Dough
This peppermint play dough recipe is a fun sensory activity for the holiday season. We love to use this scented play dough in Christmas occupational therapy activities. It’s a great activity to use along with our candy cane puzzles and our candy cane moon dough! It’s a great Christmas fine motor activity, can even be a Christmas…
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Christmas Stampers **25 Days of Christmas Play**
Day 9 of 25 Days of Christmas Play These Christmas Stampers were a big hit with Big Sister. And seriously so easy to put together. We did this little project while the potatoes for our dinner were boiling! We are big fans of EASY art. Simple is better in our house. And these Christmas stampers…
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Christmas Tree Sensory play
Day 8 of 25 Days of Christmas Play This Christmas Tree Sensory Play activity was fun for the senses, cutting, patterning, sorting, and even pre-handwriting! Big Sister showed Little Guy how to cut shapes from foam sheets. We had these in our crafting bin just waiting for some fun Christmas…
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Snow Play **25 Days of Christmas Play**
Day 7 of 25 Days of Christmas Play It was a beautiful 65 degree December day here…We spent it loving the outside this afternoon…Ate our lunch on the porch, played in the sandbox and backyard, did some sidewalk chalk…and decided to make a little Fake Snow! These are the ingredients…Shaving cream left over from our Summer Messy Play…
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Cardboard Gingerbread House
This cardboard gingerbread house is a process art activity that helps kids create and build fine motor skills with a gingerbread house theme! Pair this with our decorate a gingerbread house Google slide deck for hands-on fun that the kids will love this holiday season. It was really easy and Big Sister and Little Guy…
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Visual Christmas Count-down **25 Days of Christmas Play**
Day 5 of 25 Days of Christmas Play Paper Chain Christmas Countdown We put up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving and my daughter has been confused as to how many days there are until Christmas. She has been waking up in the morning asking me, “Is today the day?!?!” I decided we needed…
