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 a visual way of showing her how many days she has left until Santa comes.
I remember doing this chain link count-down when I was little and I am sure lots of you still do this.
This is a fun activity that can be used to count down any big day…vacation, birthday, holiday, sleepover…anything really!
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Cut out some red and green Construction Paper
into however many days you have left until the big day. This is an easy activity for your preschooler to help- cut straight lines across the construction paper. You or your child can number the links if you want. My daughter just wanted to decorate one of the links- the one for the big day!
into however many days you have left until the big day. This is an easy activity for your preschooler to help- cut straight lines across the construction paper. You or your child can number the links if you want. My daughter just wanted to decorate one of the links- the one for the big day!
Link them all together with glue or tape and let it dry laying flat on a table out of little hands way.
Once it is dry hang it up. What an easy visual aide for the kiddos!
We hung ours off of the curtain rod next to the Christmas Tree to make it look festive and to keep it away from baby brother who really wanted to rip it to shreds.
Have the kids tear off the link and count the remainder of the days. Only 23 days left!
6 thoughts on “Visual Christmas Count-down **25 Days of Christmas Play**”
so fun for the kids…adults too!!
We made our links today-and a few extra to be worn as bracelets! Thanks for reminding us of the fun things we did as kids so we can pass them on!
A count down is such a great idea! I should do this for my niece ;-p You have a sweet little blog–I'm looking forward to reading more!
-Nicole
I did this in school too. So simple yet exciting at the same time!
This is such a great idea.
Thanks for stopping by my blog
Catriona
xx
Love it
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