Learning Station - Yarn Wrapped Stars

The kiddos carefully wrapped stars with their color choice of yarn.

 

I just cut stars from cereal boxes.

Christmas Week 2

Tow Truck - This was possibly the best moment of preschool today!  Ms. Sara's car has an ouch (won't even start!) and the tow truck guy came ... so cool to watch.  The kiddos applauded when he got my car up on the truck.

MINI CHRISTMAS TREES - Look what Ms. Sara found at the dollar store!  So darn cute!  The kiddos are super jazzed to decorate these all week!  (Ms. Sara's jazzed to.)

Doily Trees - The kiddos decorated these lovely, dainty trees today.

 

I saw this great idea on this blog:  Here!

Mini Gingys - Target - Thank you Target dollar spot for these adorable gingys!  The kiddos colored them, we added a ribbon and hung them on their mini trees.

Wrapping Gifts - One of the kiddos has been diligently bringing in tp rolls since the beginning of school.  I have been saving them because they weren't very sturdy.  Today I found a great use for them...wrapping our rocks! 

For sibling gifts this year, I had the kiddos use paint markers on rocks.  They decorated them and then I was going to glue googley eyes on the rocks.  But interestingly, none of the kiddos wanted eyes.  So for gifts we just did decorated rocks.

Our Class Tree - Looking better each day!

Mini Trees - Decorating - The kiddos added ornaments and sparkly garland to their trees this morning.

 

Gingerbread Men Cookies - Making - Yahoo!  We made the dough and threw them in the oven to bake so they would cool in time to frost before home time.

Gingerbread Men Cookies - Decorating - After a quick snack (we were too excited) we frosted and bedazzled our cookies!  Oh, and ate a lot of the toppings.



Mini Tree - Decorating Again - We added a star today and a few snowflake ornaments.  These little trees have been so fun.

Clothes Pin Scene - These are a new favorite of mine!  We added a few little friends to our clip to help decorate the little tree.  The clip can be clipped to the Christmas tree or anywhere else you might want a winter scene displayed.

 

The mini bristle cone pine trees I found at Hobby Lobby and the mini winter erasers I found in the dollar spot at Target.

Pine Cone Painting - In preparation for a craft on Monday, we painted pine cones today.

Taking Our Mini Trees Home - Yipee!  The day finally arrived that the kiddos could take their own special tree home.

Christmas Journals - 

 

Pine Cone Ornaments - The kiddos were all about the pom poms this year.  We used our painted pine cones.

Christmas Bingo - A kiddo brought this fabulous bingo game to share today for our party. 

Clothes Pin Felt Trees - The kiddos decorated the felt triangles, then I hot glued them to a clothes pin.  They can pin them onto something or let them just stand up.

I got the idea for these trees on this blog:  Here!

Parent Gifts - Plates - We made our traditional parent gift.  Plates or bowls from the Dollar Store and Sharpie oil paint markers (the same ones we used on the rocks).  The kiddos draw, I label on the back, then I bake them at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.  

Toddler Class:
Youngster Class:

Preschool Class:

 

Learning Station - Tying Knots - Ribbon Wreaths

These simple wreaths gave the kiddos the opportunity to flex their fine motor muscles and tie ribbon knots.  They turned out super cute!

The wreaths are made from pine pipe cleaners that I found at Hobby Lobby.

 

  

Tying a knot is tricky, especially with ribbon...

Learning Station - Christmas Tree Names

The kiddos put their name together in tree form.  It was interesting that some kiddos worked top down and other bottom up.

 

 

I saw this cute idea on this blog:  Here!

Learning Station - Sticker Trees - Youngsters

 The kiddos did great work following the lines for their ornaments.  Great fine motor work getting those stickers off and hand-eye coordination getting the stickers on the lines!

I saw this nice, simple idea on this blog:  Here!

Christmas Week 1

Decorating the Tree - The kiddos were so very excited about the tree they had to put something on it, so I pulled out some candy canes.

Journal Time - They drew Santa...

 

Melted Snowman Ornament - The kiddos put all the pieces of a snowman into their bulbs.  "Snow", carrot nose, and peppercorn eyes and buttons.

I saw this idea on this blog:  Here!
She used Epsom salts, which would have been way easier, but I had fake snow on hand so we used that.  It was crazy static-y, but we had fun with it.

 

Sewed Tree - These kiddos practiced their sewing again today.  Making a tree, so cute!  Then they added a scene around it.

I got the idea for these trees on this blog:  Here

 

 

Journal Time - Reindeer - Today I had the kiddos create a reindeer from 2 ovals.  Here are a few examples of what they came up with...

 

 

Wrapping Gifts - It's that time!

Free Form Santa - I put out a few supplies and had the kiddos create their own Santas.  They did a wonderful job of creating their own work!

 

 

Christmas Monster - I found this monster wreath on clearance after Halloween.  It is so cute I wanted to keep it up all year!  Here he is ready for Christmas.

Simple Tissue Wreath - Toddlers - Easy peasy and so very cute!  I usually cut small squares of tissue to use, but I found these tissue circles on clearance last year, and they are cute too.  The wreath is cereal boxes, cut and painted.

Journal Time - Wreaths - The kiddos created a wreath in their journals using the leftover tissue circles from the Toddler class.

 

Mason Lid Wreaths - The kiddos worked long and hard on these wreaths.  They turned out super cute!

 

I got the basic idea for these on this blog:  Here!