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🔴 Holiday Sensory Bin 🔴

With Christmas right around the corner I decided to do a simple sensory bin for the boys today. I did a similar one in the past (scroll my feed to find it). The filler is simple; water and cranberries.

✨Cranberries
✨Cups
✨Measuring cups
✨Scoop
✨Table/bins
✨ Water

The boys love playing with water so I had to set this one up in the kitchen. They of course made a mess. 😂

It’s so fun to watch them both play with sensory bins together!

What holiday themed bins have you put together recently? Tag me in your posts comments so I can see!

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🎄 Christmas School Recap 🎄

I know that it’s January and Christmas is over but I wanted to share the things that we did this year for Christmas school to give you ideas for next year.

✨Decorated Christmas cookies
✨Decorated gingerbread houses (tip: if you don’t plan to eat them, just hot glue them together!)
✨Saw Christmas lights
✨Watercolored ornaments
✨Went to our town’s tree lighting ceremony (this included a fun and free hay ride!)
✨Went on a Christmas train ride
✨Built forts
✨Christmas pom pom ice rescue
✨Watched Christmas movies
✨Christmas themed worksheets
✨Read a ton of Christmas themed books
✨Shepard on the search
✨Prayer advent calendar
✨Christmas themed shelf work
✨Played board games
✨Went to Christmas story time at the library

I’m sure that I missed some of the activities that we did. We tried to spend a lot of family time together and focus on the reason for this season.

What did you do this past Christmas season? I’d love to hear all about it in the comments 👇🏼

🔴🟢⚪️ Pom Pom Ice Rescue 🔴🟢⚪️

We’re in the middle of Christmas school for our homeschooling and my kiddos needed a fun activity to do this morning that would keep them busy.

✨Pom poms
✨Hammers & pitchers
✨Bin

My boys had a lot of fun with this one. They enjoyed hammering away at the ice. Eventually they did decide it was too hard so we had to pivot.

We started with the hammers, moved to using different tools that we found around the house, I broke up the ice into smaller pieces, and then decided to go with warm water to free the pom poms.

This activity turned into a fun science experiment where we learned how to melt ice with warm water and this was the highlight of the activity for them.

Are you doing Christmas school this year? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below 👇🏼