Candy Cane Song

When I was a teacher I loved Dr. Jean,  I still own most of her CDs. I even went to one of her workshops years ago (so fun!)

I have even introduced a few of the songs to my own children. A favorite this past summer was "The Gummy Bear" song from the Is Everybody Happy CD.

I came up with this Christmas version of the song and C loves it.


The Candy Cane Song
(Tune: "Six Little Ducks That I Once Knew")

Down at the candy store, what did I see?

Seven little candy canes hanging on a tree.

Along came child's name with a penny one day.

They bought a red one and they took it away. 




Down at the candy store, what did I see?

Six little candy canes hanging on a tree.

Along came child's name with a penny one day.

They bought a blue one and they took it away. 



Continue by counting down and using the different colors you use. If using in a classroom you can attach paper candy canes to a tree and pass out the pennies to a several children. As you sing, those children can come up at buy one. Sing more than once so everyone gets a turn :)

I just quickly cut candy cane shapes from construction paper, nothing fancy. And some brown circles for the pennies. 

Color the Christmas Lights

 For this activity you will need

~Crayons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)

 

~Christmas Lights printable
(from Lisa Morrow on Teachers Pay Teachers)

~Color and Number Cards 

Draw 1 number card and 1 color card. Find that number on the Christmas Light worksheet and color the light the color on the card. Continue until all lights are filled in.

I didn't make as many color cards as numbers. When you run out of cards in your color pile, start over with the discarded pile.

Advent Chain Week 1

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C is 3 years and 7 months
J is 21 months

December 1 -- We played the Collecting Snowballs game found at Making Learning Fun. We did the add and subtract version of the game.  (I altered the original so there would be more spaces for the cotton balls) Eventually we traded the cards for a die. When C rolled, she got to take away, when I rolled, I got to add.

To keep J occupied while we played the game i thought I would make her a simple version - putting the cotton balls on circles on a piece of paper.

This is what she thought of that idea

She saw me trace the circles, so that is what she wanted to do instead.
She is so different than C!!

December 2 -- I saw this idea for decorating a felt tree. But we didn't have enough green felt to make such a large tree and I didn't want to go out and buy more, so we just made a mini version instead :) They girls still had fun decorating the tree. When C was losing interest I had her follow directions (put a red circle ornament at the top, make a pattern at the bottom, etc)

December 3 -- We played the Same and Different Game, printable found here

December 4 -- C did the Color, Cut & Glue activity, found here

Here are a few other things we did this week.

Rudolph Rudolph felt story

And we did the Christmas puzzles

Ornament Matching

I know not every 3 year old would be able to do this activity, but C loved it. She is always drawing and  asks me how to draw certain things. So I decided to make a little following directions activity out of it. We worked one step at a time drawing each picture. She had to try and draw the same shape and use the same color. I was very impressed by what she did (my favorite is the Nativity Scene) If  you can't tell, my pictures are on the yellow paper - I am not much of an artist ;)