Reindeer Food

Candy Cane Pizza

I got this idea from another provider Ann Taylor Williams!  What a cute idea!

Homemade Wrapping Paper

 Painting our hands to make wrapping paper!

The finished product!

Playing Santa!

Gingerbread House

Ginger-Bag Houses

I had them stuff the bags with newspaper, and then I tied the top with yarn and then they cut the doors and windows and I had "candy" punched out for them to use to decorate!

Felt Christmas Tree

I got this idea from Pinterest!

Christmas Sensory Table

Gingerbread Day

Gingerbread Day

 Gingerbread Tracing

 Gingerbread Puzzle

 Gingerbread Letter Matching

 Gg or Other Letters
(Notice the cute little dress Reegan wore for gingerbread day)

Making Gingerbread Cookies

These activites came from

http://www.thoughtsofesme.blogspot.com/

Handprint in salt dough

Five Little Cookies

Five little cookies sitting on a plate,

Waiting for Santa, he was running late.

Along came a reindeer and guess what he ate?

CRUNCH

(Countdown cookies until you empty the plate!)

Christmas Cookies

Making Christmas Cookies

 Luke is a professional at cutting out cookies!

 This is the table all set up for them to frost and sprinkle as much as they want!  Imagine being three years old and seeing this.......HEAVEN!

 They LOVED decorating their cookies!  It kept them busy for an hour!  You would think there would be a huge mess, but it wasn't.  There was nothing on the floor, believe it or not! 

The finished product!

Christmas Aprons

We made these for all of our Christmas cooking activities!  I used fabric paint for the names and for the cookie cutter shapes!

Christmas Cookie Cutter Art

Cinnamon Ornaments

Recipe for Cinnamon Ornaments

You will need:

applesauce

cinnamon

Mix 1 cup cinnamon to 1/2 cup applesauce in a large bowl.  Gradually add cinnamon until it is a dough.  Spread cinnamon on the surface where you will be rolling the ornaments.  Cut shapes out and use a straw to put a hole in the top.  Heat oven to 250 degrees and put them in the oven for 60 minutes, 30 minutes on each side.  Your house will smell wonderful!  Put a ribbon on the top and hang on your tree!

Snowmen Ornament

Books About Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas  by Hilary Knights

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies  by Laura Numeroff

The Very Best Christmas Present  by Jim Razzi

Auntie Claus  by Elise Primavera

Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear  by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Laura's Christmas Star  by Klaus Baumgart

The Christmas Cub  by Justine Fontes

Laura's Star  by Klaus Baumgart

The Crocodile Christmas  by Bonny Becker

Room For a Little One  by Martin Waddell

Merry Christmas Curious George  by H.A. Rey

Little Critter Night Before Christmas  by Mercer Mayer

Harold and the North Pole  by Crockett Johnson

Winnie the Pooh's Christmas  by Bruce Talkington

Arthur's Perfect Christmas  by Marc Brown

Pooh's Jingle Bells  by Kathleen Zoehfeld

Wipe Your Feet, Santa Claus  by Konrad Richter

The Night Before Christmas  by Jan Brett

Bear's First Christmas  by Robert Kinerk

The Mouse Before Christmas  by Michael Garland

This is the Stable  by Cynthia Cotten

Snowmen at Christmas  by Caralyn Buehner

The Christmas Blizzard  by Helen Ketteman

The Polar Express  by Chris Van Allsburg

Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear  by Don &Audrey Wood

Clifford's Christmas Wishes  by Gail Herman

Mooseltoe  by Margie Palatini

Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Christmas  by Joy Cowley

Santa's Stuck  by Rhonda Greene

Maisy Makes Gingerbread  by Lucy Cousins

Hurry, Santa!  by Julie Sykes

Clifford's Christms  by Norman Bridwell

Clifford's First Christmas  by Norman Bridwell

Merry Christmas, Stinky Face  by Lisa McCourt

Clifford Christmas Angel  by Quinlan B. Lee

Merry Christmas Mom and Dad  by Mercer Mayer

Mouse's First Christmas  by Lauren Thompson

The Very Snowy Christmas  by Diana Hendry

The Gingerbread Man  (Scholastic)

Franklin's Christmas Gift  by Paulette Bourgeois

Santa's Noisy Night  by Julie Sykes

The Gingerbread Baby  by Jan Brett