Celebrate the countdown to Christmas with 25 fun christmas activities for babies and one year olds that still put everything in their mouth. Every ideas has been carefully chosen and tested.
From December 1 to December 25 you can do super fun Christmas activities for babies, and the best thing is that this will make a great gift for the grandparents.
All of these Christmas activities for babies have been selected for babies and young toddlers in mind. They are edible-safe, and easy activities even the little ones can participate in.
Of course, the little ones will need extra help setting things up but they will be able to enjoy the end product as a sensory experience or participate in the making.
I am excited and I hope you are too! If you are not the crafty mom, this should be a good start! I tried to select easy, quick and sometimes not too messy activities.
This is such a fun way to kick off the holidays and I hope you will enjoy all the amazing ideas I have selected for you!
**Free calendar printable of all activities in PDF can be downloaded for free and take all of these ideas with you.
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25 Sensory Christmas activities for babies to Kickoff the Holidays
melted snowmen sensory bottle
This melted snowman originally made by The Chaos and the Clutter is based on making a glitter sensory bottle and then you just add a carrot, a piece of fabric as the scarf, some sticks to represent the arms, and some beans or beads to represent the eyes and buttons. The end result is a fantastic melted snowman sensory bottle
Create a holiday discovery basket
Based on the concept of Montessori discover baskets, you can make one full of holiday-related items that are safe to explore and have lots of different textures.
Create a Holiday light tunnel
Make gift wrapping paper designs
Create a Christmas Tree Sensory bag with Shaving Cream
- 6. Create a Holiday themed sensory board
- 7. Create edible safe candy cane sensory play
- 8. Holiday Pom-Pom Push
- 9. Play with sugar cookie dough – later make cookies
- 10. Experiment with a Christmas theme sensory bin
- 11. Color a Christmas tree using a fork
- 12. Create a snowman shaker
- 13. Create a mistletoe craft
- 14. Create a felt Christmas tree with ornament
- 15. Practice counting using marshmallows
- 16. Create a Christmas tree mobile
- 17. Create an elf finger puppet
- 18.Create Cinnamon scented ornaments
- 19. Create a Jingle bell bracelet
- 20. Color an elf
- 21. Make the grinch ornament with pom-poms
- 22. Create How tall am I ornament using ribbon
- 23. Create apple scented playdough
- 24. Ornamentinmuffintinsorting
- 25. Unwrap gifts! No tutorial needed but did you know this is a sensory activity? eye-hand coordination and hand grasping
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