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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.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.
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Yule titles for creative play
2013 free Christmas template resource
     Merry Yule and a Festive Christmass wish to visitors ..
2013 Santa Clause a gift bringer
outline template activity

Explore children's yuletide excitement as they countown to a day of gift giving and receiving.

Santa outline template

Enjoy the idea that people celebrate gifting and how  through stories, this has happened throughout mankind's history - yuletide & winter weather books

 Download Santa outline resource
© RT Grimes www.silkysteps.com 2013

If you use pre-drawn outlines empower your children with the knowledge that they have choice.
Explain how outlines can be changed by the addition of children's own personal ideas.
Build on outlines with materials that cover the original structure.
Cut up the original structure to add flexibility to what might go where.
Use blank resources for group and individual's to develop their own concepts independantly and collectively.

When discussing Santa/Father Christmas open conversation about clothing colours, beard shapes and offer suggestions to support creativity eg. language and hand gestures that help to illustrate or demonstrate a long and straight beard, a short and fluffy one,  wide and fuzzy,  purple and twisty? What will be chosen?

Use an outline to ..

Prompt the beginning of an activity or project
Spark interest in an area less frequently visited
Promote an area of activity
Collage onto
Colour fill with crayons, paint, chalk
Take impressions with:
--- from soapy paint bubbles or marbelling inks
--- from rubbing on a textured surface
Cut up while practicing fine motor skills
 Laminate and use with playdough

tinsel jingle bells

More ..
Santa button About Santa Clause - wikipedia history
Santa button Green and red clothed Santa - BBC news
Santa button Examine how to avoid using this holiday to control children's behaviour  parenting with understanding


Santa button Some people beleive in santa - Teacher Tom's blog

Adult's santa suit fayre & visits - amazon.co.uk
 Children's dressing up suits dressup and role play activities - amazon.co.uk
Racing santas! table top games - amazon.co.uk 

Santa coloured playdough - red doh recipe malleable activities

A special visitor A special visitor board book - amazon.co.uk

Have a merry time xx
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