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!
We spent the last 2 days before break having some great Christmas fun in the Preschool Class. We practiced counting by counting “Skittle” Ornaments onto our Christmas trees.
We practiced our tracing skills and traced a Christmas tree working extra hard to keep our pencils on the lines.
We also worked out hand strength and had some fun playing with red and green playdough.
On Friday we celebrated Grinch Day! We read the story the Grinch and talked about ways we could make the Grinch happy.
We then got to make some special Grinch Dust that we will sprinkle in our yard on Christmas Eve to let the Grinch know that we have all taken great care to keep Christmas spirit in our homes and love our loved ones!
We got to end our day watching Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch and enjoy a special Grinch popcorn snack.
The Preschool and K Prep students have been reading variations of the Gingerbread Man all through the month of December. The K Prep students have been comparing and contrasting the setting, characters and ending of each story. Some of the books include:
The preschool class got to do an art exploration activity with scented paint! We used cookie cutters to stamp different Christmas shapes and used green peppermint paint and red cinnamon paint.
The Preschool Prep class has been working hard and having fun with their Christmas themed activities!
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The holidays are upon us, and nothing beats the different smells of the holiday season! Continuing on with our exploration of the five senses, we made no-cook peppermint play-dough during group time. Each of our friends took a turn pouring in a separate ingredient, making sure to smell some of them along the way, like our peppermint extract! They loved adding in the food coloring, making our play-dough red, which is our color of the month!
Although our peppermint play-dough smelled good enough to eat, we let them explore with their sense of taste at snacktime with a peppermint patty treat! Exploring with our senses is not only fun, but tasty, too! 🙂
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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