The Connett Connection

There are so many Christmas themed crafts and activities that one could post about.  Here, on this post, I will be highlighting the crafts and activities I actually do with my kids! With this activity you decorated your Christmas tree while playing a game!  I gave my daughter craft objects of various shapes and then I gave her a Christmas tree page.  I instructed her to color her Christmas tree.  Then she drew a card and had to put the correct number of objects of the chosen shape on her tree!  Students are finished when their tree is filled with shapes or they feel their tree is complete!  The tree printable and the cards can be found HERE ! These pine cone Christmas trees were a huge hit at our house, with both my kindergartner and my preschooler!  Simply paint your pine cone green and stuff pom pom between the spines.  I did not even use glue!  They turned out so cute and are now decorating our kitchen counter! My son brought home this craft from his MOP class.  It lo

 We had a fun and full week this week!  We did a lot of fun activities and crafts! We had some acorns left over from last week so we painted with them!  We simply dropped pain on the paper and rolled the acorns around! To accompany our acorn craft, we did this guided writing activity with acorns.  My daughter can write sentences on her own with this activity! We have been learning about the woodlands, and about deciduous and coniferous trees.  I made this clip card activity to test my daughter's knowledge of the two types of trees! To accompany our forest unit we have been working on, we made these cute owls!  Simply pull cotton balls apart and stuff them inside the pin cone.  No glue needed!  You only have to glue the eyes and beak. We did this fun Christmas tree craft as well this week.  It was a game and a craft!  My daughter would draw a card and it told her how many of each shape to put on her tree!  She LOVED it! We began learning a simple id

I have spent the last several weeks collecting pine cones to use with my kids for a few projects this winter. The first project we did was this turkey pine cone art project.  It was more difficult than I initially anticipated.  The feathers kept falling off the turkey, even after we glued them in.  Perhaps they would stick better with hot glue, but I am not comfortable with my 5 year old using a hot glue gun! We made a pine cone Christmas tree as well.  We painted the pine cone green and glued different colored pom poms to the inside of the cone. We made these cute pine cone owls as well!  Simply stuff the pine cone with cotton and glue eyes and a beak!  This makes a perfect craft for a winter animal or owl unit! We also painted with our pine cones.  We dipped our pine cones in paint and rolled them around our paper! We made rainbow pine cones to decorate our counter!  My daughter loved making the pine cone all different colors! We explored our pine cones