Holiday fun

Cognitive development

Holiday Graphing with Bows

Use various colored bows you would use for gifts.

Use tape to make different columns.

Have your child sort the bows by color.

Help your child to count how many bows are in each column.

Which color do you have the most of?

Which one do you have the least of?

Practice counting with one to one correspondence.

Light art activity

Use finger paint or ink from stamp pad

Have your child dip finger into paint or on stamp pad. Put one color at a time on a piece of white paper.

Have your child put finger prints all over paper.

Have your child use a marker or crayon and connect the lights, like a string of lights.

Social emotional development

Pass the Present Game

Place a few small objects inside a small holiday box. Have your child and maybe a sibling or another adult, sit in a circle on the floor. The first person shakes the box and dumps the contents out on the floor in front of him. The student orally identifies the set of items with one number, for example, “There are 4 things in my present”. The student passes the box to the person sitting next to him and the next person repeats the process until everybody in the circle has had a turn. This game will help your students learn to quickly identify sets of objects

Rudolph Roll and Stamp (or Color)

Rudolph stamping sheet

Stamps/stamp pad or markers/crayons

Give your child a 1-6 stamping sheet (see below). Have students take turns rolling the die. The students will identify the correct number of dots on the die and stamp the corresponding number on their sheet with a holiday stamp or color with a crayon or marker. You can do this with siblings or parents and take turns.

Practice counting with one to one correspondence.

Practice taking turns

Communication development

Help your child draw a Christmas tree shape on paper-green paper or color in with green crayons or markers.

You can help your child cut it out with scissors.

Have various items to decorate the tree available.

Decoration ideas :

Stickers

Markers

Crayons

Pompoms

Cotton balls

Glitter

Foam shape stickers

Have your child request items to decorate the tree.

EX: “May I have the yellow sticker? “I want the red glitter?” “I need the glue”

Hang up your decoration to get ready for the holidays.

Listen to "Christmas Lights" by The Laurie Berkner Band

Adaptive development

Make a Holiday Chain

Use construction paper.

Choose 2 colors so you can alternate.

Draw lines across construction paper.

Let your child cut out the strips of construction paper.

Then link the strips together (alternating colors) to make a chain and a pattern.

Motor development

Fine Motor

Pom Pom sort with Tongs

Materials

Ice Tray or other container with different compartments(see picture below)

Or you could draw a Tree and put lines for different sections on it.

Pom poms of different colors or cotton balls

Tongs

Have your child use the tongs to put a pom pom or cotton ball in each section of tray.

This is a great way to strengthen hands.

Weaving Ribbons

Ribbons

Baking rack

Box or cookie sheet

Have your child wave the ribbons in and out of the slots of the baking rack.

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