December Games and Sensory Bins 2018

All of our games this month were centered around my favorite time of year...Christmas!!!

1.) Feeding Santa Cookies

This was by far the most popular game!  I wanted to make this a learning game, so I made different colored hats for my Santa, and most of the kids matched up the cookies to the right Santa without me telling them to.  The kids really loved taking the cookies off the baking sheet too!

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2.) Christmas Tree Color Matching (Two's Only)

This game went over really well with the two's, but I apologize for the glare in the picture.  What I did was hide the presents in a big box, with cut up green and red streamers. (See picture below for the bin I used.)  I've learned that I need to use a big in to let the two's dig through, that way they don't tend to make too big a mess out of things!  The two's were able to dig the presents out of the box and matched them up to the correct tree.
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3.) Christmas Tree Light Counting (Preschool Only)

For this game, there are little stars with numbers on them, one through five inside the bin.  Each tree has a certain number of lights on it.  The preschoolers would match each star to the right Christmas tree.  They did a wonderful job matching the numbers!
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4.) Christmas Tree Pom-Pom Push

This is a wonderful game to use, and all it takes is a shoebox, construction paper and pom-poms!  
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5.) Christmas Putt-Putt
I didn't save a picture, but I got this game here, if it's still available.  My kids adore playing putt-putt and this came with six things to putt through, along with four putters and balls!