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Christmas Activities for Kids

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Check out these fun Christmas Activities for kids!

Finding fun Christmas activities for kids is one of my favorite times of the year. Narrowing them down and just picking a few is the hard part. There are some fantastic ideas available out there. I love Pinterest for this especially!
Finding fun Christmas activities for kids is one of my favorite times of the year. Narrowing them down and just picking a few is the hard part.

This was our 1st week of Christmas activities and we have been having a lot of fun, fun, fun!!! My kids are growing into bold ambassadors of Christ! Every day they just amaze me with their growth both, in spirit and in knowledge.

This week we focused on the story of  how Jesus came into this world and why. I really wanted them to understand that God gave us the greatest gift we will ever receive!

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I didn’t plan a whole lot for lack of time, but I have been doing the plan day by day thing which is very challenging, but it has worked out okay so far:)

Christmas Activities for Kids

What’s Christmas without Charlie Brown right? Jada drew this picture last week but I wanted to share it cause I thought it was so cute. She is a huge Charlie Brown fan. So darn cute!! I just love that some have bird looking feet.

Pictured Below: Peppermint Patty, Linus, Schroeder and his piano, a flower, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Lucy.
Christmas activities for kids
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Jasmine drew a smiley face:)I had some pine needles to use from our Christmas tree, so my plan was to make Christmas wreaths, but Jada wanted to draw Charlie Brown so I turned the idea into a Christmas wreath frame for whatever picture you want to draw. Jasmine drew a smiley face:)
Christmas activities for kids
 
Jada drew Charlie Brown….of course!
Christmas activities for kids
I made this Jumbo craft stick magnet puzzle I found here. The picture she used was a pumpkin I found a gingerbread man. (click songs for Christmas to find this pattern)
When looking for Christmas activities for kids I try to focus on the TRUE meaning of Christmas, so I always try to find Jesus related Christmas projects to do more than anything else.
Born in a manger craft– This was a big hit…it comes with 2 printables- the manger, and baby Jesus. we colored the manger first then glued sandpaper to represent straw, next we colored and cut out Jesus, then I cut a small piece of white cloth for the blanket and had them decorate Jesus’ blanket with markers.
Jasmine didn’t want to glue baby Jesus on cause she wanted to hold and play with Him, so I laminated Jesus and stapled the cloth to the paper leaving an opening at the top so they could take Him in and out. They were so cute singing Him lullabies and kissing Him good night. It was so sweeeet!!!
Christmas Activities to do with kids
Christmas Activities to do with kids
 
Christmas ABC trees that I found over at 1+1+1=1 and she found them here which is where you will find the printables for these. When I first saw these I was bummed cause they said to use bingo chips and I only had blue and red no yellow, but then I saw Carisa using these foam blocks I already owned so then I printed a set:)   Jasmine really liked doing this, she did like 4 times….Yay!
 
Jada did this Nativity trace and color which she loved!!
Christmas activities to do with kids
 
Jasmine worked on putting her letter C ornaments on this cute letter sorting mat.
Christmas activities for kids
 
Just because I wanted you to see my beautiful REAL tree:-)
Castle building: Jada only uses the red and orange blocks, she put stickers and jewelry on hers also. Jasmine just likes to see how big and tall she can build it! And Jordan this little blanket just doesn’t contain her anymore….she gets where she wants to go now not by crawling or scooting she barrel rolls till she gets there! She is growing up so fast…sigh!
 
Jasmine coloring her Christmas tree…I guess I should turn the heat up a little! LOL!
 
Since gymnastics class came to an end (sigh) a couple weeks ago…the girls have now been pretending to have class anyway:-)  Here Jada is miss Andy the instructor and Jasmine in using one of my throw pillows as a carpet square for their warm ups! They go through the whole class from start to finish….So Fun!
Since talking about Mary and baby Jesus this week,  Jada has now become Mary, this is her best friend Blanky on her head.
 
This is Jasmine as baby Jesus…Ha!
 
They had fun decorating these Jesus ornaments!
 
Huh…She sure looks guilty!
These are unrelated to Christmas but I wanted to share them anyway…This is duck counting. I used my ducks from our lucky ducks game, a shallow dish filled with water and I made a foam die. Jasmine counts the dots and picks out that number of ducks. To make it challenging for Jada she rolls the die twice and adds the two numbers together. They could play this game forever!
 
This is something I created last year and going through my math folder I ran into it….. so I had Jasmine fill in the pattern. If you can’t tell from the pic, I drew a simple pattern of red and blue and had her fill in the blanks with red or blue bingo chips.
 
Well, that’s it for now, stop back next week when I share more Christmas activities to do with kids and other random fun stuff we do! Be Blessed!                   
What are some fun Christmas activities for kids that you’ve tried? 

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  1. Michelle says

    Great learning games! I used to teach preschool (I taught ages 2 through 5) and all of those activities are definitely age appropriate–love how you made that duck game more challenging by doubling the dice roll. 🙂 And how incredible that you were able to do all of this without advance planning!I found you through Twittermoms, BTW–I’m now following you on Twitter, GFC, Facebook, and NetworkBlogs.:) Michellehttp://frugalfunfamily.com

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  3. Nicole {tired, need sleep} says

    You really do have a beautiful tree!

    I love the wreath idea, and how sweet to have such a big Charlie Brown fan.

    This post if full of wonderful ideas, I’m impressed that you were able to do all this without planning in advance! Great job, Mama!

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  4. Carrie Thompson says

    AH I love the Charlie Brown wreath, our Walgreens has a Charlie Brown tree, it is sooo cute! Love the girls warm ups too! Cute!

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  5. KJ says

    My son’s been playing like that too!! The other day he told me I was Mary because I had a baby in my belly and he was Joseph. He has seriously called me Mary ever since and told me that once Christmas was over, I could be Mommy again! LOL Too funny.

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  6. Tracey M. says

    You had such a full week with lots of variety! I love the pine needle wreath idea. Any nature-related crafts are so great. Your Christmas tree is just beautiful. Visiting from Weekly Wrap Up.

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