Christmas Learning Activities

~Alex is 33 months~

We've been so busy lately with getting ready for the holidays, Christmas shopping, and my insanely late nights at work that we haven't done as many activities I would have hoped but here is what we have done.

I did get Alex to sit still long enough to get a Christmas card photo taken and I got Christmas cards printed.

 

Today we looked at My First Jumbo Book of Christmas

Not much of a storyline but it is interactive, with lots of little flaps to open, textures to touch, tabs to pull and turn,  pop up illustrations and a little present at the end to open with 4 ornaments inside. I got it at a discount store for a couple dollars and it was worth the money.

We also did a bunch or worksheets. We did a Alphabet Christmas Tree Mat We only did the abc one because that is the only letter that we have really worked on. Alex did great with it, we used Do A Dot markers to match the letters.

We did a Do A Dot Christmas Tree printable from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

A Rudolph Color Matching worksheet from Little Piles Everywhere Alex did great with this too, but he still calls colors by the wrong name at times.

and we did some free drawing with markers on a craft foam shaped Christmas Tree.

C is for Cold

~Alex is 33 months~

So we started working on the alphabet again. Today we did C is for Cold. Partly because Alex loves to watch Leapfrogs Letter Factory (the letter C's are cold in it) and partly because it is cold out now.  We bundled up and took walk in a nearby small downtown area. It was nice to get some fresh air, and we did a little window shopping. When we came back Alex did a letter C with his Do A Dots.

We read Winter Friends by Carl R Sams II. Its a cute little board book with great illustrations

Then we made a snowman out of cotton balls. I drew the snowman shape out on a piece of blue construction paper with a piece of chalk then I painted on the glue and let Alex apply the cotton balls. I helped him add the felt and foam details and he drew some snow on with chalk.

I also froze some little trinkets in a piece of ice for Alex to explore. I used a few glittery craft foam snow flakes, and trees, a letter C that I cut out of foam, a red jewel, a little gingerbread eraser and a piece of red string. I gave Alex a bowl of warm water and a turkey baster to use to melt the ice. I also gave him some tweezers to help get the trinkets out of the ice.