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Totschooling - Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten Educational Printables

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Playdough mats are always a hit at our house, so I love creating a set for every season and Holiday. Here is a set of free printable Christmas playdough mats, which includes 10 fun activities: Making Santa's beard, making Rudolph's antlers, decorating a Christmas tree, a wreath, making a snowman, a gingerbread man, candy canes, decorating ornaments, presents and more!

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Playdough mats are fun for kids of all ages and encourage creativity, imagination, and help strengthen hand muscles. Kids will love these Christmas themed ones as they get ready for the Holiday season!

I always recommend that you laminate playdough mats in order to make them reusable. As an alternative, you can use sheet protectors instead.

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Playdough mats are always a hit at our house, so I love creating a set for every season and Holiday. Here is a set of free printable Christmas playdough mats, which includes 10 fun activities: Making Santa's beard, making Rudolph's antlers, decorating a Christmas tree, a wreath, making a snowman, a gingerbread man, candy canes, decorating ornaments, presents and more!

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symmetrie van sneeuwvlokken. (mocht het gaan sneeuwen)

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symmetrie van sneeuwvlokken. (mocht het gaan sneeuwen)

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Simple cotton swab snowflake symmetry activity for toddlers and preschoolers. It's a great way to explore symmetry with kids!

Taking the idea of creating snowflakes out of cotton swabs and putting them into our DIY mirror box (instructions and details below) was such a fun twist. It turned out to be such a fun and engaging activity for exploring symmetry.

Snowflake Math Activity: What You'll Need

For this activity, you'll need:

A DIY mirror box (details below)

Snowflake Symmetry Activity

Since snowflakes are the inspiration for this activity, it only made sense to set up the mirror box on the ledge by our front window so that J could see the snow out front while he played. I also set out a cup of cotton swabs. Most of the cotton swabs were full length, but I had also cut some in half.

J started placing some of the cotton swabs on the mirror box, watching how they would transform as he placed them in the mirror box.

J kept adding more and more cotton swabs to the mirror box, eventually realizing that he was making symmetrical snowflakes. He would stop every so often to count the number of points on his snowflakes too.

Now we're reached the point where the snowflake enthusiasts start attacking me, going on about snowflakes only having six sides or points. 🙄 Remember this is an activity for kids about exploring symmetry, not about making perfect snowflakes. Okay? The fact that I even have to add this little disclaimer is annoying, yet here we are.

Anyway, back to this symmetry activity...J started adding more and more cotton swabs to see what would happen.

As you can see, his snowflakes started to become quite intricate and detailed. And he still paused every so often to count the number of cotton swabs that he could see. It's what a kid with hypernumeracy likes to do.

And that's it! A quick and simple way to explore symmetry inspired by snowflakes.

Other Activities You'll Love

This post is part of a series called Light and Reflections. Here are some other posts from my series co-hosts:

Married to her high school sweetheart, Dyan is a Canadian stay-at-home mom to two boys, J and K. When she's not writing about hyperlexia and autism, you can find her teaching piano, kicking her kids' butts at Mario Kart, playing a board game, or binge reading yet another book or research paper.

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Simple cotton swab snowflake symmetry activity for toddlers and preschoolers. It's a great way to explore symmetry with kids! Taking the idea of creating snowflakes out of cotton swabs and putting them into our DIY mirror box (instructions and details below) was such a fun twist.

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repen knippen. Krans van papieren bordje.

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repen knippen. Krans van papieren bordje.

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met een pincet pomponnetjes tussen de schubben duwen. Evt. met  kleuren dobbelsteen en getal kaartjes in de rekenhoek.

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met een pincet pomponnetjes tussen de schubben duwen. Evt. met  kleuren dobbelsteen en getal kaartjes in de rekenhoek.

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Christmas Tree Count Number CardPrint, cut and laminate. Have the children count the balls on the tree and clip a clothespin

on the corresponding number. Card 20
Card 19-18
Card 17-16
Card 15-14
Card 13-12
Card 11-10
Card 9-8
Card 7-6
Card 5-4
Card 3-2
Card 1-0

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Christmas Tree Count Number CardPrint, cut and laminate. Have the children count the balls on the tree and clip a clothespin on the corresponding number. Card 20 Card 19-18 Card 17-16 Card 15-14 Card 13-12 Card 11-10 Card 9-8 Card 7-6 Card 5-4 Card 3-2 Card 1-0

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http://www.digibordopschool.nl/pagina/kerstmis

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Kerstmis - Digitaal Schoolbord? Digibord op School!

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Digibordtools, digibordlessen en internetbronnen voor je digibord en touchscreen.

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locatiespel01.pdf (jufsanne.com)

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reeksen

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spiralen knippen

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met reeksen

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oefenen van links en rechts