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Christmas Roll Sugar Cookies

Christmas Roll Sugar cookie Recipe with red and green sprinkles

Christmas Roll Sugar Cookies with sprinkles! A super simple recipe for Christmas Cookies this holiday season with your child! Here's how to bake. I love spending time with the kids in the kitchen during the holiday season, I especially love when I find a recipe that they can mostly do on their own. This holiday cookie recipe is one that turned out so colorful and super fun for the kids to make to share with someone special. Disclosure: This post contains amazon affiliate ... Read more...

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Christmas, cookies, Cooking with Kids, Recipes

By Kim Vij

Stocking Themed Sight Word Activity

Sight Word Stockings for Christmas Activity for Kids

Create a Christmas themed sight word activity for your child for hours of fun.  Using Stockings can be a playful way to practice sight words at home this holiday season.   We're sharing with you a special story and sight word activity to create special memories at home.  This post contains affiliate links  Stocking Themed Sight Word Activity  Sight words are so important to your child's success in reading. You can research the words your child should be ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Christmas, Kim, Love Books Basket, Sight Words

By Kim Vij

Personalized Name Ornament for Kids to Make

Personalized Ornament Craft by Kids for Christmas

There is something so precious about handmade ornaments that kids create hanging on your Christmas during the holiday season. They take such pride in them as they gift them to a loved one. Then year after year they truly are a treasure you uncover from the kid made ornaments from your ornament box and watch your child proudly hang on the tree. I must confess my heart melts just a bit looking at them.  Capturing how a child writes at each age is so adorable as well.   I'm ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Christmas, grade school, Kim, Ornaments, Personalized, Personalized Name Ornament for Kids to Make, Preschool

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Kindness Elf Ideas for Busy Parents

Kindness Elves Ideas and Message Starters for busy Parents

If your family does Elf of the Shelf or Kindness Elves every December and you are in need of inspiration. Here is a list of activity ideas and messages the elves could send the children.   Here is a set of free kindness elves printable messages if you do not have time to make your own! BUY KINDNESS ELVES HERE Affiliate Links included in this post As a family, we want to make sure that we are focusing on a season of gratitude and kindness. The kindness elves are a way to ... Read more...

Filed Under: Parenting, Reading Tagged With: Christmas, Kindness Elves, Literacy Connections, Random Acts of Kindness

By Kim Vij

Fingerprint Train Ornament for Kids

Fingerprint Train Ornament inspired by Freight Train for Kids

Keepsake ornaments are my favorite thing to make with my kids. This fingerprint train ornament is so adorable and inspired by one of our favorite train book Freight Train by Donald Crews. If your child loves TRAINS, see how much fun this train ornament is to make! Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon.  This train ornament craft was inspired by our featured book at The Virtual Book Club for Kids called Freight Train by Donald Crews.  In the story the author ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Christmas, Ornaments, Trains, Transportation, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

Building A Moving Polar Express Train Ride with Preschoolers

Building a Moving Polar Express Train Ride with Preschoolers

The Polar Express Train is a classic tradition in many homes for the holiday season. Create your own moving Polar Express train ride to create special memories with your preschooler.   Here's how to make. Affiliate links to amazon used Our featured book this week for the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids is the popular book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. We've shared so many fun learning ideas about trains on The Educators' Spin On it.  It's such a popular ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math, STEM Tagged With: cardboard Crafts, Christmas, grade school, Preschool, Trains, Transportation, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

Hot Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Hot chocolate cookie recipe with christmas background for holiday cookie exchange

Easy Hot Chocolate Cocoa Cookies Recipe! Plus they are a fun holiday cookie recipe to go along with your favorite holiday movie... Polar Express. These delicious cookies are perfect to bake for a holiday cookie exchange or a special treat for Santa on Christmas eve. Here's how to make this recipe with your child this holiday season. Hot Chocolate Cookie Recipe There's something that happens this time of year with the kids, perhaps it's the change in weather to cooler ... Read more...

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Christmas, cookies, Cooking with Kids, Recipes

By Kim Vij

If You Give a Mouse Themed Fingerprint Ornament

Fingerprint Mouse Themed Ornament for Kids to Make for Christmas

This keepsake fingerprint mouse themed ornament is so simply yet adorable and is inspired by one of our favorite characters from the If You Give a Mouse books by Laura Numeroff. Create your own mouse ornament to give to a loved one this Christmas. Here's how to make...  Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon.  There's a popular quote from one of our favorite Christmas books, I'm sure you know it too. "Twas the night before Christmas when ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Christmas, Laura Numeroff, mouse, ornament, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

Alphabet Activities for Christmas

Christmas Alphabet Activities for Kids

Christmas time is here and finding ways to still sneak in learning can be fun with these Christmas themed Alphabet Activities for your child. Read more to find 10 ways to learn letter recognition with your child. Did you know that we have a Teaching the Alphabet Pinterest Board? We took at peek at our favorite Christmas Themed Alphabet Activities on there to share with you for the After School Linky Party. There are so many ways to learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet you and ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, After School Activities, Alphabet, Christmas, grade school, Winter, xmas

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Christmas Themed Sight Word Activities

Christmas Sight Word Activities for Kids

Learning sight words with a holiday theme can be just the thing to get your child focused on memorizing them. Find a few they love and offer it to them during their winter break. You'd be surprised how much free time there is over the Winter Break for sight word practice when kids are exciting about doing the activity. Each week we gather Sight Word Activity ideas on our Sight Word Pinterest Board for you.  Here are some of our favorites that are Christmas Themed for Sight Words. ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: After School Activities, Christmas, grade school, Kim, Sight Words

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