Our PreSchool Blog

Celebrating the season with a star print craft.

Star cookie cutters with red playdough enforce our shape and color of the month.

Practice matching colors with holiday bows and trees.

J is for jingle bells.

K is for kiss under the mistletoe.

Holiday themed centers provide an opportunity to engage the toddlers in pretend play, sharing, and fine motor skills.

More crafts of holiday fun.

During circle time we discussed our favorite things about Christmas.  The toddlers placed their picture under their favorite thing.

“My Mistletoes” Art Project!

Fine motor and letter formation with our “pokey pin” activity

Christmas Cutting Center!

L is for Lights

Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, we are getting into the holiday spirit!

We started by making open ended creations using red and green gum drops and tooth picks!

We went on a letter hunt in pretend snow! (Even though it happened to be 60 degrees outside at the end of November!)

We painted with star shaped cookie cutters! Our December shape is the star, and color is red.

The students were able to make homemade red, peppermint play-doh! We will use this in class activities throughout December.   

We had such a fun holiday season with our friends in the toddler classroom! With holidays as our theme for the month of December, our activities were as fun and as festive as can be!

Here we were practicing our fine motor skills, by putting gumdrops onto straws and square toothpicks. Some of our friends made it more challenging by trying to stack as many as they could fit!

And we can’t forget about our different holiday art projects! Our friends did some painting with jingle bells to make candy cane stripes, painted using star cookie-cutters for Christmas tree ornaments. They also did alphabet projects about the letter “J” for Jingle Bells and “K” for Kiss under the mistletoe!

Our centers were focused around holiday happenings, too! We had Santa’s Workshop, red and green color sorting, Christmas tree pom-pom decorating, holiday puzzles, and our sensory table was filled with everything from jingle bells to cinnamon sticks!

It was truly a joyful and magical time of year with our friends in the toddler classroom. We are very thankful for such a wonderful ending to 2015, and look forward to what 2016 will bring for the Creative Tots toddler class!

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