It’s Christmas time. A time filled with wonder and joy, familiar songs, beloved traditions, and unbelievable smells. I remember the magic that Christmas used to hold when I was a child. Somewhere along the line, I lost that sense of awe. It didn’t happen when I realized that Santa wasn’t real. Or when I realized …
One of our favorite Christmas traditions is driving around and looking at Christmas lights. We’ve done a Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt in the past, but this year I thought I’d create our own. It’s a simple activity. Just right click the image below to save and print your scavenger hunt. Go for a ride and …
Christmas shopping has begun! There are so many great gifts out there for kids. But how do you decide what to purchase for them? So many different factors come into play… What are they interested in? What is most educational? What can they get use out of for a few years? All this being said, …
I’m sitting here… in a quiet house. Staring at the Christmas tree glowing in the dark living room. December always seems like the hardest month to get through. It’s a tough time of year when loved ones who aren’t with us, either spiritually or physically, are missed. Our family has dealt with both… The absence …
We’re taking a little break from exploring the alphabet in our Toddler Playschool. I thought I’d do a couple bonus lesson plans, first for toddler Christmas activities, then winter themed toddler activities. We’ll pick back up with the letter P after the first of the year. The Christmas activity calendar is a little different than …
There’s nothing like Baby’s First Christmas. The expressions on my babies on Christmas morning when they unwrapped their first presents will forever stay with me. To mark the occasion, I created a Baby’s First Christmas free printable photo prop just like I did for Thanksgiving. Just right click to save it and print it out in …
The Christmas season is upon us and I’m getting festive wherever I can in our preschool activities. This means putting together a Christmas sensory bin that is fun an contains various textures and colors. For this Christmas sensory bin, we used: white rice {as a base} green and red buttons white, red, and green craft pom …
Christmas is coming. We all spend these last few weeks focused on finishing up the shopping for presents and counting down until Santa comes. And so many children’s books about Christmas cover these same topics. Here are 10 great faith-based books that I found on my search for children’s books that focus on the actual event …
When I was a kid, my mom would buy me a Christmas ornament every year. Now that I’m grown, I look forward to putting all thirty-some of my ornaments on the tree. The memories around some of them are hazy, but others are so vivid as many times, the ornament theme was based on my current …
