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20 Totally Awesome Fine Motor Christmas Activities

November 27, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 24, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 23, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 20, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 17, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 16, 2015 By Deirdre

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

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

November 12, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 9, 2015 By Deirdre

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

November 6, 2015 By Deirdre

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

Thanksgiving Crafts- Paper Plate Turkey

November 4, 2015 By Deirdre

When JDaniel was in preschool we made a paper plate turkey just like this. It was one of those Thanksgiving crafts that you hold onto. You take it out just to remember the crafts you made together. Recently I made a new turkey paper plate craft to share with you. I thought it would be fun to make with your kids. They will love the whimsy that Continue Reading

Chewbacca Star Wars Shape Craft

November 2, 2015 By Deirdre

A few weeks ago I shared with you a Chewbacca puppet. I recently came across a super cool Yoda shape craft on Toddler Approved. It got me thinking. Why not try to make a Chewbacca Star Wars Chewbacca craft with you! This craft focuses on using a variety of shapes to build Chewbacca. Kids will be familiar with the square, rectangle, and Continue Reading