Last Monday we built a traditional Christmas tree using cedar leaves and loose parts ( see post entitled Christmas Tree Building Play Invitation Using Nature and Loose Parts . The kids loved the activity and since the cedar leaves we used still look fresh and are holding up so we thought of...

Prelude to Christmas theme this week! And for our sensory bin exploration, we dyed pasta noodles using Christmas colors red and green with drops of peppermint extract. The kids loved scooping them from one cup to another and even sorting the colors out. We also added some cinnamon sticks...

Christmas tree building play invitation using nature and loose parts. Today we had a Christmas tree building play invitation activity using nature and loose parts . We used cedar leaves, pine cones, pine log,   Christmas balls, Christmas lights and loose parts---broken parts...