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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Calculator Caterpillar's range of activity ideas to support math, reasoning and problem solving.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.





Yule titles for creative play
2011 free Christmas resource title
     Merry Yule and a Festive Christmass wish to visitors ..
2011 Yule tree dressing activity
Enjoy the advent countdown to winter solstice, to Christmas day and throughout all Yule festivities with an activity bag filled with templates, bottle top lids and reflective, sparkly, collaging resources...

Tree dressing ..

Download Yule tree decorations
© RT Grimes www.silkysteps.com 2011
Yule tree Resources needed
A copy of Yule tree decorations.
Pre-made yule tree base sheets and/or raw materials for self directed construction.
Bottle lid activities

  A collection of bottle tops - while stocks last
  A collection of resources to fill the bottle tops!
  eg. jingle bells, fuzzy pom poms, card pegs, sequin sprinkles, small fir cones
  A storage bag



  A camera to record the creative outcomes, preserve children's self esteem and support their resilience where models are packed away.
  A wooden turntable to support children's rotary schema -.display the festive bits and pieces for children to explore.
 
Fill the triangular tree shapes with up-turned bottle tops filled with small seasonal items, decorating and designing the sheet. Add a name and photopraph for records. Where wanted print the tree photographs to paper and use as paper collage material - rip, tear and shred to fill an unlaminated tree base sheet. Add a star, glitter and sprinkles to the surface.







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