Tots and Me... Growing Up Together: Toddler Ideas Tuesday: December 23, 2014

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Toddler Ideas Tuesday: December 23, 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.

This week the children made some cute ornaments that we sent to their grandmother as a Christmas gift to hang on her tree. I found this idea over at Save Green Being Green. These Hand Print Manger With Baby Jesus crafts were so simple to make and they will be a wonderful keepsake as it uses the children's hand prints.

I helped the children place their brown hand prints on cardstock. When they were dry, I cut them out and had them paint some yellow hay in the palm of the hand.

I used the pattern from Save Green Being Green to draw some swaddled baby Jesus figures for the children to color in and glue on top of the hay. We then added a star and I hole punched through to add some yarn so grandma can hang it on her tree.

The older girls both wrote a little note to their grandma on the back. I just had Hannah and Harold sign their names after I wrote "To Grandma, Merry Christmas, From:" on them.

Now onto:

Toddler Idea Tuesday Features

On my last Toddler Idea Tuesday post, there were 4 wonderful posts linked up. I will be picking one randomly selected post to share this week.

This week's randomly selected post is:

Stacey from A Moment in Our World shared these colorful Christmas Montessori-Inspired Cards. Don't forget to stop by to download a free copy and check out her wonderful blog.

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.