Toddler Ideas Tuesday: December 2, 2014

Welcome back to Toddler Idea Tuesdays! I hope you will join with me again in sharing the fun activities, crafts, and lessons that you are doing with your young children. 

Today I wanted to share several fun toddler Christmas craft ideas from the past.

We made these fun mitten decorations several years ago. I traced the girls' hands in the shape of a mitten and then cut out two. They then decorated them and I attached them with a piece of yarn.

Another year, the girls made handprint wreaths. I traced a circle onto a big piece of white construction paper. Then the girls made handprints with green paint all around the circle. When it was dry, I cut it out and the girls glued on pompoms.

And the last craft I wanted to share today is a manger. I cut the manger out of brown paper in the shape of a trapezoid with rhombus legs. I cut a baby shape out of felt. The girls used some white cloth to swaddle the baby in and then I actually stapled it to secure it as glue wasn't holding it. If I was doing this again, I would probably try Velcro. The girls then glued on some yellow yarn for hay and attached the swaddled baby to the manger.

Now onto:

Toddler Idea Tuesday Features

On my last Toddler Idea Tuesday post, there were 2 wonderful posts linked up. I will be picking one randomly selected post to share, plus the top clicked-on post. 

This week's randomly selected post is:

Huckleberry Love shared this wonderfully simple sensory activity: Huckleberry Life: Play Snow {Sensory Activity}.

The other post had the most clicks:

Rebecca from Raventhreads shared this simple yet lovely art idea: Circle Paintings.

I would love to have you join in this week! What sort of activities do you do with your toddlers and preschoolers? Do you have some favorite activities you would like to share? I invite you to link up below. I will be pinning posts on my Toddler Ideas board and I would love to feature some of the activities each week from what is linked up. Please know I may share a picture from your post and link back to it, along with sharing how we used your idea in our toddler time. By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. Additionally, if you choose to try out any of the ideas with your toddler, please make sure you give credit where credit is due.

Linky will be open through Sunday night, to give me time to check out all the posts and get the Features organized. Please take the time to visit some of the other wonderful posts linked up.

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