Santa's Workshop Celebration Kit

We didn't do any formal school this week. We were so busy, and had a lot of fun Christmas things to do. I did just want to quickly share the Santa's Workshop celebration kit that we received from this Months Mother Goose Time Curriculum kit though. Every month includes a celebration kit and this one was about Christmas.

So while we didn't really do much school work this week we did use our celebration kit a bit. It comes with a teacher manual that tells you how to do each activity and also some invitation cards. You can use this kit to host a class party if you are in a day care or preschool environment or you can use it for fun Christmas activities to help make the season more fun like we did. Some of our favorite activities from the kit was the games. There was a reindeer training game and a Santa's beard game. These were really fun and my husband was able to use these to keep the kiddos occupied on Christmas Eve while I worked.

We also enjoyed doing the art projects and the snack during the week leading up to Christmas.

We made the spoon Santa's and put them on gift packaging. We haven't done the snowman puffy painting yet, but I plan to soon. We have painted with shaving cream before and it is always a lot of fun.

We also included some melted pony bead ornaments with the beads we used to decorate our play dough cookies we played with. Once we were finished with the decorate the tree activity we used the cookie cutters and the beads to make the ornaments. We put them in the oven and melted them. They came out really nice and look beautiful on our tree.

My favorite activity to come from this kit was the Twas the Night Before Christmas poem and story pieces.

I plan on reading this before the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve. I know they are going to love the added element of play with the reading. Merry Christmas everyone!

*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*

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