Play dough Christmas trees

This is my favorite play dough recipe.  The texture is so smooth.  

1 cup white flour

1/4 cup salt

2 tsp food coloring

1Tbsp vegetable oil

2 Tbsp cream of tarter

1 cup water

Mix flour, salt, and cream of tarter in a medium pot.  Add water, food coloring, and oil.  Stir over medium heat for 3-5 minutes.  Don't worry if the mixture looks like a globby mess; it'll turn into dough.  When the mixture forms a ball in the center of the pot, turn off the stove and let it cool.  Then take it out of the pot and put it on a floured surface.  Knead it.  Store in a plastic bag in the fridge. 

This is Fluttershy's Christmas tree. 

Use green play dough with colored beads or marbles. Children can use the green play dough to make Christmas trees and add the beads or marbles for ornaments.

Rectangle Christmas Trees

  I laid the rectangles out in front of Fluttershy and had her put them in order from largest to smallest.  Then we glued them on from largest to smallest up to the star.  Creating a Christmas tree.   I got this idea from pinterest.

Christmas Crayons

 Chrismas crayons. This activity was great for fine motor skills.  I had Fluttershy help me remove the crayon labels.  It was a little frustrating her at times but I tried to help her work through her it helping her learn patience.  

We had the oven at 225 and it only took 5-10 minutes in the oven. 

Now on the making a drawing.

In staying with the Christmas themed activities, today we used confessions of a homeschooler's Christmas preschool pack.

 Ornament counting trees

 Decorating the Christmas tree with our bingo marker.

 Coloring the Christmas Tree by number.

Christmas pre-writing practice worksheet

This worksheet is a great for fine motor skills.  

 Completing the patterns worksheet.

When we do preschool I try to use the same activities for both my girls.  I just simplify them to Rarity's level.  If the activity is too advanced I'll pull block, play dough, markers, or the many other things we have and let her do free play with them while her sister is working.

To print out these wonderful worksheet from Confessions of a homeschooler

"Hand"maid Reindeer Ornaments

These were too cute not to make.  I saw them on Pinterest and wanted to make them with Fluttershy. I know normally they don't have pink noses, but Fluttershy had to have pink.

Alphabet Tree Mat

Christmas tree Mat

Print out the mats on card stock paper and use Red, Yellow, and Blue paint. For example, “a” is red, “b” is blue, and “c” is yellow. Children will find all of the letter a’s on the mat and cover them with the finger print of the right color. This is a set of nine mats with letters A-Z.  I got this idea from http://prekinders.com/christmas-theme/#activities

Rarity created a different sort of masterpiece. 

10 Days of Christmas: Day 10

Week 16: Day 1

Read Books:

Read Words-

Letters (and rhymes) - C, G, O

C - curve around
G - curve and a dash
O - big curve and close

Start by creating the characters using play dough snake

Starfall:

Letter C

Letter G

Letter O

Posters letter(s) –

C- Paste cupcake stickers on Letter C  (an alternate is C for Crayons)

G-  Use glitter glue or spread glue over the letters and sprinkle with glitter.

O-  Paint or color with the color orange.

Math - Opposites - Liquid & Solids (make object lesson)

 - Water and ice
 - While making meals, have your child assist and discuss the liquids and solids that go into recipes.

Celery Science - Cut celery so the veins are open & cups of water with food coloring added; place the celery stalk into the water.  Check daily to see if the celery is drinking up the water and the veins are becoming that color.

Writing Skills-  Balllon Vertical lines worksheet

Review Shapes-  Circles

Letter characters-  Uppercase C Characters

Play-   Play Go Fish - use various numbers or letters
Do you have a letter that says /f/?
Do you have the number 4?
Do you have the uppercase letter "O"?

Information-   Dial 911
- Children need to know how to get a hold of the police department, fire department, and hospital in case of an emergency.  Now that the child can recite their phone number and address, the child is ready to practice this.  Have the child dial a play phone and tell the "dispatcher" their names, the emergency, and the address of their home.  This is also the time to discuss what denotes an emergency and that 911 is never to be called for any other reason that a true emergency.
- This is a good time to have a practice fire drill with your family.  Discuss a meeting place outside the home. 

Visual Perception Activitiy-

Lacing

Practice vertical lines worksheet

 We talk a little bit about what kinds of things are emergencies.  911 Coloring page

 Here is a neat hand writing creator that we used to make this worksheet.  You can make single letters, words, or sentences.  It's very handy. handwritingworksheets

 We finished up our 10 Days of Christmas today.  We made our alphabet book out of our letter worksheets.  1plus1plus1equals1 

Worksheets you can print:

Letter C-1

Letter G-1

Letter O -1

Character practice  -1

911 Coloring page-1

Practice vertical lines -1 

 Printable Lesson 16