Inside: Looking for the best advent calendars to give as gifts for December? These are perfect to countdown the days of December until Christmas. We love counting down to Christmas. What’s not to love? Gift giving and gift receiving. Christmas lights and Christmas decorations and Santa visits. Christmas cookies and reindeers. Christmas is the most […]
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Christmas Kindness Activities for Kids
Inside: Use these Christmas kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during the December holidays. With the Christmas season approaching, it’s easy to get excited and hyped for the lights and the cookies and the Santa presents. And with the craziness of December and the holidays, it’s easy to get swept away […]
Use this Printable Gratitude Pumpkin to Focus on Gratitude
Inside: Use this printable gratitude pumpkin to help kids focus on why they’re grateful throughout the month of November. I love traditions and I absolutely love holidays. I have boxes and boxes of decorations in my basement. But I have never loved Thanksgiving. I love the food and I love spending time with the family, […]
Classroom Holiday Party Activities: 16 Best Winter-Themed Ideas
Inside: Host a classroom holiday party in your kids’ classrooms or scout groups with low-prep, low-mess, low-cost games, activities, and crafts that are winter-themed. Most room parents are busy planning or scrambling to plan, the very best, most awesome holiday party for their kids’ classrooms. And I was tasked with the same job, but for […]
Year Long Kindness Craft and Write Bundle to Teach SEL
Inside: Use this year long Kindness Craft and Write Bundle to tie in reading, writing, holidays and social emotional skills each month. Elementary schools revolve around the seasons. Yes, we teach reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic, but we infuse the holidays and seasons into almost everything we teach. Since our students are excited about the pumpkins […]