

Christmas celebrations in early childhood care can be a great way to enjoy the holiday spirit, foster understanding and support inclusivity even with our youngest learners. The following article provides Christmas Themed Activities For Babies and Toddlers.
A nice way to say Thank You to Educators for all their hard work and dedication for the year is with an end of year gift. The following provides gift ideas for Educators that are thoughtful and cost effective.
Celebrating Christmas in early childhood services can be a wonderful opportunity to embrace the festive spirit while promoting inclusivity and cultural understanding. The following article provides Ideas and Strategies For Celebrating Christmas At Your Service, Respecting Diversity During Christmas Celebrations
Gingerbread Letter Match enables children to match the correct gingerbread to its house. This is great for children learning letters and for children to begin letter recognition.
Christmas Colour Match enables children to match the same colour objects under the correct colour Christmas tree. This is an excellent activity for children learning colours and sorting and categorising things based on colours.
Gingerbread House Numbers Find and Colour is a number recognition game where children need to find the matching number from the gingerbread house door. Once they find the correct matching number children can colour it in. This is a great number recognition game and helps children to identify numbers.
Christmas Symmetry Tracing supports children to draw and explore symmetrical patterns and designs based on a Christmas theme. Children can trace the light half of the drawing by themselves to complete the image.
As from Monday, December 5 until Saturday, December 24, children will get the chance to talk with Santa, Mrs Claus or one of the Elves.
ELF Cutting Practice encourages children to practice their cutting skills by cutting different types of lines. This will help children in their fine motor skills and their hand/eye coordination.
My Christmas Sweater encourages children to create their own Christmas sweaters by following the number task cards. Children are given number task cards and a blank sweater. Each task card has pictures and the amount the pictures should be placed on the sweater, thus creating a Christmas sweater. This is great for children to recognise numbers and to practice counting.
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