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Countdown To Christmas

11/30/2020

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Countdown To Christmas Activities For Preschool and Kindergarten
I wanted to share some of my favorite "Countdown To Christmas" activities that we have done in the past.  I have made the countdowns easy to make and the children enjoy keeping track of many days are left until Christmas.

Countdown to Christmas Mats:
countdown to christmas activities for preschool and kindergarten
countdown to christmas activities for preschool and kindergarten
Print either on regular or cardstock paper. Glue on to a sheet of colored cardstock paper.  Starting on December 1st cover up the number 25 on the mat.  Each day cover up another number (24, 23, 22, etc) to count down to Christmas.

You can download the countdown mats here.

Scissor Skills Christmas Countdown:
Scissor Skills Christmas Countdown For Peschool and Kindergarten
I made countdown that also work on scissor and fine motor skills.  The patterns can be printed on regular or cardstock paper and the children glue them together where indicated to form a long strip.  Each day they cut off a number from the bottom of the strip until it is Christmas.

You can grab the patterns here and see a video of this activity by clicking below:
Scissor Skills Christmas Countdown
Christmas Countdown Chain:
Christmas Countdown Chain
​For this countdown we cut red and green construction paper into strips and put a number on each one. We alternated the colors of each number link ... for example the first one was red and the next one was green and the third one was red etc.

Children glued together the ends of the first link (number one) and then laced the second link through and glued the ends together.  They continued until they had connected all 25 links.

We hung the chain up and each day a child was chosen to removed a link from the bottom of the chain which would the show how many days were left until Christmas.

You can grab the number circle patterns here and see a video by clicking below:
Christmas Countdown Chain
11 Comments
Kerri
11/29/2014 01:07:36 pm

Thank you for sharing this lovely Christmas activity.

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Shelley
12/2/2014 08:22:19 am

You are so very welcome !!

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Heidi
11/29/2014 04:29:39 pm

Last year I used to tree pattern and the children enjoyed finding the number each day. The line to cut each day is so creative, though simple. I love it! Thanks so much for sharing, you have great ideas and the art work is always so pleasing. How do you ever find the time - do you have a clone : ) .

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Shelley
12/2/2014 08:21:36 am

Hi Heidi ... thank you so much for your comments!! I wish I had a clone do get everything done that I want to get done!!

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Debra Miller
12/2/2014 05:12:15 am

I love your website and use it alot! Thanks for all your creativity!

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Shelley
12/2/2014 08:19:26 am

Thank you so much Debra!!

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Bev
11/30/2015 09:09:12 am

Perfect Shelley! I was looking for something to start tomorrow. Thank you for all of your hard work!!

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Emma
11/28/2016 10:13:13 am

Love these Shelly! Thank you so much for all you do to help early learners and their teachers!

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Gloria
11/30/2017 04:04:11 am

Thank you for these wonderful Christmas activities.

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Karen
11/25/2018 10:13:58 pm

Thank you my students will love these :)

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Flavia
12/9/2021 06:21:28 pm

thanks a lot!! I was looking for sthg like this :)

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