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Paper Bag Gingerbread House Craft

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Paper Bag Gingerbread House Craft- What fun it would be to create a village of these homes at your house or in your classroom.

We love to make and decorate a gingerbread house at my house every December.  We had fun creating a whole bunch of gingerbread houses made from paper bags. The goal was to create enough gingerbread houses to make a small village. The first thing that had to be done was to cut out colored construction paper in candy shapes. We stuck to colored Continue Reading

Christmas Printables- Gingerbread Cookie Numbers

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Christmas Printables Gingerbread Cookie Numbers - These numbers are a fun way to work on counting, number recognition, and adding.

  Earlier this week I shared with you a set of peppermint stick themed numbers that you could printout to use this your children. Today I want to share with you a set of gingerbread cookie themed numbers. This set comes with some color candy disks that you can use as counters.You might decide that you don't want to use the printable Continue Reading

20 Totally Awesome Fine Motor Christmas Activities

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20 Totally Awesome Christmas Fine Motor Activities- These activities will have kids learning, creating, and exploring while using their fine motor skills.

What fun to is to create and build using fine motor skills during the holidays! I have pulled together a collection of twenty totally awesome fine motor Christmas activities. Some of them are from right here on JDaniel4's Mom. Some are from other wonderful blogs.  I tried to select activities that younger learners along with school age learners Continue Reading

Homemade Ornaments- Ribbon Candy

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Ribbon Candy Homemade Ornaments- Fun fine motor craft for kids. They will have fun weaving pretty holiday ribbons through pipe cleaners.

  My grandmother always seemed to have ribbon candy in a covered candy dish in her living room at Christmas time. I still think of it at Christmas time. Recently we made our own ribbon candy homemade ornaments for our tree.  When I see them hanging up I am sure I will think of my grandmother. My son just loves to use our hole punch. Continue Reading

Christmas Counting Games- Peppermint Numbers

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Christmas Counting Games Peppermint Numbers.

Last year I created a set of turkey numbers that could be used to play Thanksgiving counting games and adding the numbers 0-10. This year I have made two different sets of Christmas themed numbers. Along with the numbers each set has Christmas themed counters that can be for the Christmas counting games. Today I am going to share the Candy Cane Continue Reading

Fine Motor Skills- Christmas DIY Wreath Ornament

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Fine Motor Christmas DIY Wreath Ornament- Kids can easily thread a pipecleaner through burlap to create this Christmas Ornament.

  After having so much fun threading beads  for our threaded star tree, we made an ornament by threading a pipe cleaner. It was the second in our series of  three Christmas ornaments that focused using our fine motor skills. We have bunch of burlap left from a project we did last summer for Totschooling. The loose weave of burlap Continue Reading

DIY Christmas Decorations – Threaded Star Tree

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DIY Christmas Decorations Threaded Star Tree- Kids will get to work on their fine motor skills while creating this keepsake Christmas ornament.

  You know you have come up with fun DIY Christmas decorations craft when you child looks at your sample and asks when he can make one. JDaniel did just that last week when he saw the green tree ornament.  I had another red popsicle tree sitting out on the table and announced it was his. I think it might have been the sparkly pipe cleaner Continue Reading

Math Game- Candy Cane Tally Marks

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Math Game- Candy Cane Tally Marks This is a fun way to build numbers and work on counting skills.

Learning to count to ten with tally marks will be really fun with these Candy Cane Tally Marks . They will look like Christmas and you will not be tempted to eat them. Math Game Variations There are so many different ways to explore and build numbers with them. Here are a few that I came up with. Roll and Display Math Game The link Continue Reading

Homemade Christmas Ornaments for Kids to Make

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Homemade Christmas Ornaments for Kids to Make

The ornaments my son has made are the ones I love best on our Christmas tree. They may not be fancy or elaborately made, but they touch my heart. We made some of them together. Some he made a school.  I am going to share a few that we have made with you and some that are from others.  I hope you will make some of these  homemade Christmas Ornaments Continue Reading

Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids- Paper Plate Turkeys

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Thankgiving Crafts for Kids Plate Plate Turkeys

Last week I shared with you a quirky paper plate turkey that JDaniel and I made several years ago. Today I want to share with you a fine motor paper plate turkey we made along with ten other awesome paper plate turkeys made by others.  You will find that they have two things in common. They look like turkey and they made with paper plates. Each is Continue Reading

Star Wars Lightsaber Shape Craft

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Star Wars Lightsaber Shape Craft

Last week I shared with you a Chewbacca shape craft that would be great fun to have your kids create. Today I want to share another shape craft with a Star Wars theme. Building a new Star Wars lightsaber like we did will be such fun to build. It is also a great opportunity for you to talk about using shapes to make new shapes with your kids. All Continue Reading

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