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15 Dec

Christmas Activities for the Holidays

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I can’t believe Christmas is just over a week away… do you celebrate at home? Or travel for the holidays?

We’ve been in Christmas, holiday, crafting mode like crazy lately! The boys have been eating it up too. They’re so excited for Christmas this year! And I love the anticipation!

But… I haven’t wrapped a single present yet. Have you? I think the boys might decorate some wrapping paper themselves for the gifts they’re giving! I found 10 designs for gift wrap on It’s Playtime last week! I’m looking forward to all the play ideas that will be shared this time.

Hands on Christmas Activities

This week is full of Christmas activities: (above, clockwise from top-left)

A quick activity to keep the kids busy during this hectic time of year:

Reflection activity: Grab a CD (you know those things we never use anymore…) and let them play in the sunlight coming in the window, or hand them a flashlight even! They’ll have fun by themselves, or with someone else, finding where it shines! Give two kids two CDs and have them race each other with the reflections!

Reflection Activity

Week two of the Creative Christmas Countdown, with Red Ted Art and Creative With Kids, has been awesome!  Check out these 7 activities (and catch up if you need to!):

Find all the creative countdown activities on Creative With Kids:

Creative Christmas Advent Calendar

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