I’m exited to announce that starting Monday, November 28th I’ll be hosting…
It’ll be two weeks packed with Christmas themed activities for infant/toddlers and preschoolers, giveaways, and a weekly Christmas project link-up!
It’ll be a blast and I hope you join me.
What you can expect:
- Each day I’ll post a Montessori-themed activity geared toward infant/toddlers and another for preschoolers.
- {day 1} In & Out and Transferring
- {day 2} Crushing Paper and Decorating a Tree
- {day 3} Christmas Treasure Basket and Weaving Ribbons
- {day 4} Trying on Hats and Beading Candy Canes
- {day 5} Unwrapping & Wrapping a Present
- {day 6} Sensory Books & Cracking Nuts
- {day 7} Pegs on a Rim & Sorting Ornaments
- {day 8} Cookie Cutters & Sensory Sorting
- {day 9} Rhythm & Songs
- {day 10} Christmas Toss & Counting Ornaments
- {day 11} Matching Object to Picture & Tweezing Pom Poms
- {day 12} Making Ornaments
- We’ll kick off the first giveaway on Black Friday, November 25th and the second on Friday, December 2nd. You’ll find a giveaway , there’ll be a little giveaway. Sshh…not saying what just yet, but it may help fill a space under your tree!
- For the first 3 Saturdays in December, we’ll have a Christmas project link-up. I know you’ve got your eye on a project or two. Come share! If you need ideas, Pinterest is a great place to browse!
But that’s not all…
Last year I shared a Christmas gift idea list for infants and toddlers. This year I’ve expanded it and everyone will get their own list: infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and the homeschool mama’s—you can’t forget yourself! These should, hopefully, be up by the weekend.
It’ll be an educationally, inspiring way to start the Christmas season. 🙂
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This week we’ll be a little quiet while we take our Thanksgiving break traveling to visit family. I’m planning a few fun Thanksgiving projects, like the classic pilgrim hats and Indian headdresses. Last year we made Pinecone Turkeys.
But other than that we’ll be enjoying our break and I hope you do the same! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Oh, yaye! Sounds so fun… looking forward to this! Thanks! Cassandra @ http://www.theunpluggedfamily.com
Oh I am so excited!! Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Happy and safe travels. 🙂
Sounds Great! When will this begin?
The 12 Days of Montessori Christmas begins on Monday, November 28th. Right now, there’s a giveaway to kick off the event: http://www.ourmontessorihome.com/2011/11/12-days-of-montessori-christmas-melissa-doug-giveaway/
I’m stopping by from Montessori Monday and am looking forward to seeing the activities you post!
Sierra
I came via Montessori Monday today {but follow you on fb and via google reader as well}- We have not started our christmas activities yet this season except for listening to carols at every opportunity!
I am looking forward at following along for the 12 days- especially for the infant and toddler activities {as I have both in my house!}- I have a couple of ideas for Christmas but nothing done yet. I want to make bookmarks for family from the boys {paint with christmas colours one day, next day decorate with stickers, help me laminate them and punch holes to tie some ribbon through}, and I also plan to do some christmas paper matching game – haven`t quite figured out how to do it yet.
Plus lots of red and green activities- I have made up some cards for the counting bears to do patterning with red and green {similar to the cards I used in this post here- It is near the bottom- http://www.cherryblossomadventures.com/2011/11/06/tot-school-halloween/} as well as a ton of art & craft!
Best of luck with the 12 days 😀