So sometimes, when you are in the thick of watching the same movie over and over like we are with Nightmare Before Christmas, creating an invitation through open-end play can provide for a meaningful experience Brilliance® Magnetic Clear , Halloween Critters, Skulls, Tombstones, Bones/Skulls, Creepy Cloth, and Nightmare Before Christmas Figurines were provided.

Loose Parts & Play Dough Invitation to Create Vlad Bake Like Leila the Witch Gustavo the Ghost The Nightmare Before Christmas Small World Play Gilbert the Ghost: STEM & Small World Play Spooky House The beauty

The colors of the holidays sure light up the magic of the season. This invitation is a fun way to explore color and science plus end it with some fun sensory play.  To set this invitation you will need clear or white cups. First pour water into the cups and add Colorations Liquid WaterColors. You can place these fun lights from the Dollar Tree to be a point of reference to match the colors that will form. Next pour a tablespoon of Steve Spanglers Insta Snow into the cup and watch the magic unfold.  The science behind. Insta-Snow works  by using a superabsorbent polymer, primarily sodium polyacrylate, which rapidly expands when mixed with water, essentially acting like tiny sponges that soak up the water and dramatically increase in volume, creating a fluffy snow-like appearance; this process is driven by osmosis, where water molecules move from a high concentration area (the water) to a low concentration area (within the polymer chains), causing them to swell and separate, resembling snowflakes.  After creating all of the beautiful colors let the children mix, pour, and play with the colorful snow!

The children were invited to freely create and decorate their own Christmas trees with loose parts.

story Pick a Pine Tree written by Patricia Toht and illustrated by Jarvis is about the magic of the Christmas After reading the story, we invited the children to explore Christmas trees in two different ways. Invitation to Paint a Christmas Tree: For this invitation we used recycled cardboard, poster board paper Invitation to Decorate a Christmas Tree with Loose Parts: For this invitation we used wooden tree cut We invited the children to freely create and decorate their own Christmas trees with loose parts.

process providing different sized bells , led tea lights, and multi colored lights brings a magical Christmas

There are so many enamoring parts about Christmas! This invitation explores the magic of the holiday by inviting a child to decorate christmas trees, ginger Christmas Tree Two Ways: 1) Roll card stock paper into a 3-D triangle and wrap it with contact paper

To do this invitation to create grab some recycled cardboard, Colorations Tempera Paint , glitter , glue , string and a hot glue gun . Cut out strips for the base and strips large to small for the tree. With a hot glue gun assemble the tree. Cut out different shapes or figures for ornaments. Next invite the child to paint the tree and ornaments. Let it dry and then decorate with glitter and place string on the ornaments. After everything is ready invite the child to decorate the tree by hanging the ornaments. This invitation to create is a great two part activity where they are exploring both process art initially and later enhancing their fine motor and hand eye corrdination skills when hanging the ornaments. There is so much creativity in both processes and the end product is sure magical!

This invitation to create a Christmas tree is set up by placing natural brown butcher paper , drawing Anytime boundaries need to be established to ensure safety before inviting a child to play is a great Therefore having discussions or modeling before they engage in loose parts play is ideal.

The Little Blue Truck series are always an all time favorite for so many children, especially the Christmas This invitation recreates the book Little Blue Truck's Christmas through small world play.

Recycled berry baskets, cups, & pom poms are all you need to invite a child to create a Christmas tree Anytime boundaries need to be established to ensure safety before inviting a child to play is a great Therefore having discussions or modeling before they engage in loose parts play is ideal.

October 7, 2025, the crew sets off on a brand-new holiday journey in  Steam Train, Dream Train: Next Stop Christmas festive fun as the familiar animal friends go full steam ahead into the holiday season, celebrating Christmas