Freebie Friday ~ Christmas Activities

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Christmas Resources

21 Days to Christmas! We’ve had quite a crazy year, haven’t we? Here are some fun free Christmas Activities to tide you over the next few weeks. Enjoy!

Christmas Preschool Printables from Confessions of a Homeschooler
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What’s Included in the Download?

Large Floor Numbers
Coloring Pages
Lacing Card
Do-A-Dot Marker Pages
Pre-Writing Activities
Pattern Activity
Roll-A-Tree Game
Color Matching Puzzles
Candy Cane Counting
Size Sorting
Christmas Puzzle
Scavenger Hunt
Letter C Magnet Page
Star Counting
and More!

100+ Free Christmas Printable Worksheets for Kids from iGame Mom
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Today we are featuring more free Christmas printable worksheets for kids. We are all busy getting ready for the holidays, and have little time in preparing for kids’ activities. The beauty of these printables is you don’t need much prep time. All you need is to print them out, and kids usually know right away what to do.

400+ Free Christmas Learning Printable Activities for Kids from iGame Mom
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I love printable worksheets, especially now you can have kids work on the printables directly on iPad, it becomes more convenient to use printable worksheets. Today we collected over 400 pages of Free Christmas printable activities for kids, including coloring, game, all incorporated learning, like numbers, alphabet, spelling, math, … Not standard worksheets, but fun activities. They cover different topics, subjects, for kids of different age levels.

Free Christmas Coloring Counting Book from 3Dinosaurs
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What you will find in these printables:

Numbers 0 1o 10
Sight words: I, see
6 pages of printables
Different Christmas words and themes

Free 12 Days of Christmas Pack from 3Dinosaurs
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12 Days of Christmas contains over 125 pages:
(part 1) 3 Part Cards, Which One is Different?, What Comes Next?, Prewriting Practice, Matching Cards, 4 Part Puzzles, 10 Part Puzzle, 3 Part Puzzles, 1-12 Writing, 1st – 12th Writing, (part 2) Begging Sound, Wall Cards, Trace Begging Sound, Trace Word, Write Word, Size Sequencing , Write a Sentence, Trace & Color, Color as you read or sing, Photo Dice cards, Roll & Count, Roll & Count Questions, Fill in the Missing Words, (part 3) Color the Pattern, Fill in the Missing Pattern, Words to make Sentences, How Many Syllables, Ways to Add or Subtract to Number

Tot Pack contains 45 pages:
Prewiritng Solid Line, Prewriting Dashed Line, Which one is Different, 2 part Puzzles, Color the Pear Tree, Matching Cards, 9 Piece Puzzles, Matching Pages, Roll & Count, Shape Tracing, Lacing Cards

Free Shelf Elf Pack Update! from 3Dinosaurs
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Shelf Elf Pack contains 60 pages:
3 Part Cards, Beginning Sounds, Matching Cards, Read Write the Room, Pocket Cards, Which One Is Different, What Comes Next, Pre Writing Practice, Pattern Cards, 10 Piece Puzzles, 4 Piece Puzzles, Size Sorting, Sorting, Coloring Pages, Math Pages, Writing Pages, Graph the Room, Good & Bad Chart, Dot Marker Pages and more.

Tot Pack contains 15 pages:
Basic Prewriting, 2 Piece Puzzles, Matching, Coloring the Elf Hat, 9 Piece Puzzle

Forgetful Santa Easy Reader and Game for Christmas Fun from Royal Baloo
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What’s in the Forgetful Santa Easy Reader Set?
Santa Easy Reader (two versions)
Roll a Santa Game
3 Part Cards

FREE Christmas PreK/K Pack {Updated and Expanded!} from This Reading Mama
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THE CHRISTMAS PREK/K PACK INCLUDES:
1 emergent reader
phonological awareness activities, such as rhyming and counting syllables
letter sounds and phonics activities
fine motor activities, such as lacing cards, tracing pages, and poke page
math activities for numbers 1-20, dice games, and introduction to addition

Christmas Around the World Worksheets from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
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These free printables are a great companion to go along with our entire series! You’ll find a sheet for each country, helpful links to learn more, coloring sheets, and so much more! This eBook will have something for kids from 2-12 years old!

Wombat Divine Christmas Kindergarten Literature Unit from 1+1+1=1
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For this unit, I selected several Kindergarten Math and Literacy Goals to focus on.

There are over 20 activities to keep your Kindergartener engaged for quite awhile! Many tots, preschoolers and even 1st graders will enjoy this set! The main focus is Kindergarten but that isn’t exclusive! Below you can see a collage of all the printables included! Click each image to enlarge!

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How Elf on a Shelf almost ruined Christmas

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Elf on a Shelf
Last year our Elf on a Shelf, Tinsel arrived. There was much fun and excitement before Christmas and the children loved it. This year Pixie told me she was scared of Tinsel and didn’t want him to come visit us because she doesn’t like that he watches her and flies around the house when no one is looking.

It really freaked her out.

Papa and I then decided to tell her the truth and to show her that Tinsel was just a toy that I had hidden away in my closet. She was petrified when I took him out of the box and wouldn’t even touch him. It was heart breaking. We then had to break the news to Koko and Fifi, who weren’t impressed with me for lying to them about it. While Koko was fine, Fifi took it badly and wanted to know why we had lied to them. Explaining to them that it was just to make the countdown to Christmas a little more exciting, she seemed to settle down… eventually.

And then we got asked the questions, IS SANTA REAL? Is the Tooth Fairy real? What about the Easter Bunny?

I refused to lie to them, and told them that Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny were just fun things adults did for children for these occasions. Daddy is Santa (that’s why he hands out gifts on Christmas morning, Momma and Daddy are the Tooth Fairy and Momma is the Easter Bunny. We had 3 very sad children in our home that day. They had to grow up very fast.

We have decided that since they know Tinsel isn’t real, that they got to choose what Tinsel did every night. Each child, including Noo, gpt a turn to have him do something special, naughty, etc. The kids had loads of fun leading up to Christmas getting Tinsel to do their bidding and it made Pixie so much happier knowing that he is just a toy and not some magical Peeping Tom that is stalking her.

We forget that our children are sensitive creatures and that, while some think its fun, others might be freaked out about it. While I think its great that we like to add a little magic to Christmas for our children, we need to be honest when they ask the questions, or it may come back to bite us. Parenting can be hard sometimes, but lying to our children when they ask pointed questions about things like this is something I learned a lot about on this particular day.

You can follow the adventures of Tinsel the Elf on my Instagram account.

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Tinsel the Elf on the Shelf has arrived!

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Meet Tinsel the Elf

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He has come to keep an eye on kidlets during the month of December.

What is Elf on the Shelf?

Children and adults alike love the magic of Christmas and it’s traditions. with it, Each family has their own traditions so why not get your own ELF ON THE SHELF today to begin this really exciting and special tradition in your family.

ELF ON THE SHELF is a a little toy character that appears in your home round the 1st of December. Once you have given your Elf a name Santa’s little helper watches if the children are being naughty or nice and “reports” to Santa whilst they are asleep. He has magical powers as you will find out. He can listen to the children and can even take messages back to Santa on the North Pole. He returns each day before day break and is found by the very excited children in a different part of the house to where they left him when thy went to bed. Children love to wake up and race around looking for their specially named elf each morning.
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South African’s can purchase the Elf of the Self over at Family Traditions.

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