What an amazing group of families we have at Creative Tots. We are overjoyed to share these special moments with you that we hope are ones you will remember with your children for years to come. Thank you for sharing your precious little ones with us each and every day. Happy Holidays!
Preschoolers got to have a special gingerbread day last week. We read 2 gingerbread books, decorated a gingerbread picture, and even got to decorate and eat a gingerbread cookie which was everyone’s favorite part. We graphed what each person bit off first and the majority of students took a bite from his head first! We had a fun day and really enjoyed our special cookie treat!
Happy Holidays, from the toddler room! We have all new holiday-themed centers, and have been doing different holiday-themed activities in our small groups. See some of our holiday learning activities below!
We did a color matching game, using different colored “ornaments” to decorate a Christmas tree
Since green is our color of December, we made our own green play-dough, and then used Christmas tree cookie cutters and beads to decorate it.
Time to play and decorate!
Building the letter “K” using jingle bells!
This December, we have been working on some holiday art projects! For one project, we used marbles and green paint to make our white Christmas trees, green! We also used star cookie cutters to make star prints with glitter, since the star is our shape of the month. We can’t forget about our alphabet page, which was the letter “K” last week. We made “K is for Kite” letter pages!
Gold glitter star prints
“K is for Kite”
The kids are having fun exploring our new holiday centers in preschool prep!
Measuring reading, writing, ordering by size and more!
From nature hikes to letter hunts…there’s never a dull moment in preschool prep!
The preschool prep class made homemade pumpkin pie to celebrate Thanksgiving! It was delicious!
Fall season is coming to an end, but we have had so much fun with the colors of Fall, and the leaves that come from trees in the Fall. We also had some Thanksgiving stories, art projects, and got to make our own mini apple pies for a Thanksgiving treat in school! We are so thankful for all of our students in the toddler classroom.
Painting our leaves for our Thankfulness Tree! Each child got to paint their leaf, and then tell us what they are thankful for this Thanksgiving season 🙂
Fingerprint turkeys!
Fall Leaves color sorting
Making our own mini apple pies! Yummm
Finally, to taste them!
We hope you enjoyed your time off spent with family and friends, and we hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving!
In preschool, we have been learning about The First Thanksgiving and what it may have been like for kids their age back then versus what they are like now. We learned why they had a feast that very first Thanksgiving and we prepared our very own feast to enjoy! Students practiced using a butter knife to cut strawberries, bananas, and oranges. We learned to snap the “yucky” ends of the green beans. Using a lot of arm strength, we made our very own butter by shaking cream… for a long time… We crushed up graham crackers for our pie crust and we even made our very own bread in a bag. On Tuesday, we enjoyed the fruits of our labor and got to eat all of the yummy food!
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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