Tot School-Week Before Christmas (27 months old)

Homemade playdough

we made peppermint playdough and Madalyn had a ball playing with it (and smelling it!)... she enjoyed using her Christmas themed cookie cutters, and she practiced using her scissors to cut her playdough as well

Beading

Madalyn enjoyed beading with her special holiday items and beads and jingle bells

Cutting

lots of cutting again this week, she enjoyed getting to cut wrapping paper

Stickers

Stickers are always a huge favorite.  Madalyn enjoyed all the fun Christmas and winter foam and regular stickers.  And she had fun matching up the letters for her name using red and green foam letters.

Pouring/Spooning

spooning with different spoons, and then pouring red colored rice from one container to the next

Transferring

plastic tweezers, kid's chopsticks, and smallish cooking tongs were used for this transferring activity (they are also often used when Madalyn uses her sensory tub)

Another sticker activity

create your own holiday cards with stickers, Madalyn loves these (I need to find some more of these because these were our last ones, Target had them last year and I picked them up after Christmas on clearance, there's nothing at all this year even somewhat crafty)

Gluing

Madalyn used the glue sticker to glue wrapping paper and confetti gingerbread cookies.  She also used white glue to put tissue paper pieces on this cardboard "tree"

Preparation for Christmas

we did a lot of things to get ready for Christmas this week.... besides shopping, we picked out our Christmas tree

and decorated it

and showed Santa a book

and we made sugar cookies