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{Christmas Ornament Activity} Positional Words

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      As you get ready to put away our ornaments, you may want to try this activity. It asks children to place objects in an ornament storage frame based on position words that I wrote on index cards. Non-fragile ornaments in our Christmas ornament collection worked out best for us. Many of them are ones that JDaniel made Continue Reading

Christmas Themed God’s Eye for Mom

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        Years ago my aunt made a Christmas themed God’s eye as a gift for my mom. When I tried to come up with some Christmassy to hang in my mom’s hospital room, that craft from long ago came to mind.  God’s eyes are said to have the power to see and understand things unknown. I am not sure that the weaving that I created with yarn Continue Reading

Last Minute Stocking Stuffers

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With Christmas just a week away there isn't much time to gather the items you want to put into your children's' stockings. I thought I would share with you some of the items JDaniel will be getting his stocking as well as some old favorites. The old favorites didn't necessarily come into our house as stocking stuffers but have been dearly Continue Reading

Christmas Meals and Snacks for Kids

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I haven't had as much time this year to make JDaniel special Christmas meals and snacks. What with going back to work and my mom being in the hospital things have been hectic and crazy. I decided rather than share a new Christmas meal or snack  for kids with you I would share some of my favorites from previous years. A layered Christmas tree Continue Reading

Decorating Gingerbread Activity

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Decorating Gingerbread Activity

  Gingerbread men design activity came to mind as a traced cookie cutter shapes to make the number tally math matching activity. There had to be another way to use our Christmas cookie cutters. When we went to a big box craft store recently, JDaniel just had to visit the Crayola aisle. I had told him that all of our crayons were Crayola and Continue Reading

{Christmas Craft} Candy Cane Reindeer

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Christmas Craft - Candy Cane Reindeer

I saw candy cane reindeer like this in the hall at my school.  I knew immediately that we need to try to make one at home. They were just too cute. I am not sure if it was the hand print antlers or fact that it combined to wonderful Christmas elements. Candy canes and reindeer are such a fun!The ones I saw at school had paper noses and paper Continue Reading

Kid Made Ornament – Branch Bracelets

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Kid Made Ornaments -Branch Bracelets

  The idea for branch bracelets came to me as we were decorating our Christmas tree last week.  When we came to a kid made ornament that JDaniel had created himself, he face just lit up. He was so proud of each kid made ornament he had made in preschool or with me at home.  It occurred to me that we hadn’t made any new ornament this year and we Continue Reading

{Christmas Math} Candy Cane Counting

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Candy canes and Christmas just seem to go together. Construction paper candy canes created for counting and number matching made a wonderful Christmas math activity. Constructing the Christmas Math Game Each candy cane counting creation was given a different number of stripes. It was a little bit of a challenge to get ten stripes on the final Continue Reading

{Christmas Math Activity} Number Tally Match

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  JDaniel's school is focusing the Common Core. One the Common core math skills he has been working on recognizing numbers via tally marks. Since gingerbread cookies are favorites at my house around the holidays, we recently worked on a  Christmas math activity that has us matching numbers on  pretend gingerbread cookies. How to Put Continue Reading

Homemade Christmas Cards- Old Card Stencils

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The holidays can be a crazy and busy time of year. There just doesn’t seem to be the time to enjoy small family moments. We have to plan many of them in advance or create a Christmas bucket list of them so they won’t be forgotten. Knowing when we will put up our Christmas tree and work on homemade Christmas cards actually seems to help my family Continue Reading

Displaying Restaurant Manners

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Displaying Restaurant Manners

  Two weekends ago I went a friend’s birthday party at a very nice restaurant not far from my house. I don’t go to very nice restaurants very often so, I was excited about getting dressed up to go out. Our group was set to sit in a section of the restaurant that had room for large tables. Just to in front of our long table sat a family Continue Reading

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