Christmas Boredom Busting Basket
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Christmas can be a magical time of the year. It is also a ridiculously busy time of the year. Parents have to accomplish all of their regular work and chores, Advent activities, AND shop for gifts. Oh yeah, and take care of their children.
What if I told you that I have a secret weapon that helps me entertain my kids whenever I need to get things done? Every year I put together a basket full of no-prep Christmas activities for kids. I call it my Christmas boredom-busting basket.
These Christmas boredom-busting baskets help me entertain my kids without setting them in front of a screen!
This time of year is the perfect time to put together a Christmas boredom-busting basket with no-prep Christmas activities. I will leave this basket available through Christmas. It might even hang around through New Year’s Eve, if my kids are still enjoying it.
Christmas Boredom-Busting Basket
Spend a few minutes gathering supplies to include in a Christmas boredom-busting basket. These materials support a balanced mix of open-ended play and fun educational tasks.
A few minutes is all it takes to set up these Christmas activities for kids. Once they are playing, you can work on your other tasks guilt-free.
Beads with pipe cleaner – These materials just beg to be made into candy canes. Little ones are practicing fine motor skills and patterning. Older kids are just having fun, but that is okay. Finished candy canes can even be hung on your Christmas tree!
- Candy Cane Craft Set: 24-piece Christmas wreath craft set brings you a rich manual experience. Candy cane craft set contains 500 triangular beads, 500 pony…
- Good-Quality Materials: The beads are made of good-quality plastic. This kind of plastic is light, has good durability and not easy to be damaged. The…
- Classic Holiday Color Matching: Christmas ornament kits are carefully selects 3 classic Christmas colors: red, white and green. Red symbolizes enthusiasm…
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Christmas stickers – My kids have always loved stickers. Sometimes stickers are made into sticker scene pictures. Stickers are great story starters too!
- This colorful collection of circular stickers features a variety of holiday themes.
- Each unit consists of five rolls of 100 stickers for a total of 500 stickers per unit.
- Enjoy!
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Blank books – I found these blank books in the Target Dollar Spot back in November. They are the perfect spot for writing Christmas stories, writing holiday poems, or drawing Christmas pictures.
- BLANK BOOKS TO WRITE STORIES – Inspire young writers and artists with this blank book set, featuring 24 unlined pages and a 5.5″ x 8.5” (A4) notebook…
- PAINT, DOODLE & WRITE – Kids can draw, paint, and write their own stories with crayons, markers, pencils, or watercolors. These blank journals for kids…
- PERFECT FOR HOME & SCHOOL – These blank notebooks for kids are perfect for a ‘make your own book’, kids notepad, doodle notebook, unlined plain journal…
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Christmas coloring book and crayons – This is a pretty self-explanatory addition to our Christmas boredom-busting basket. This coloring book is another Target Dollar Spot find, but I have also seen them at Dollar Tree. If all else fails, just print a few from Crayola.com.
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Money puzzles – Christmas cookies, Christmas decorations, and Christmas gifts all require at least a small outlay of cash. Why not use it as a learning activity? I have had this particular money puzzle for a few years, but other money games are available online.
Gingerbread play dough and Christmas-themed cookie cutters – Play dough seems to end up in our boredom-busting baskets pretty frequently. It is just so easy to make and encourages creativity. I always use this play dough recipe.
- Christmas Cookie Cutters Quality: Our holiday cookie cutters are made of quality stainless steel, stable for long-lasting use; the edge of the cut edge is…
- Easy to Use and Clean: The gingerbread cookie cutters are easy to use, just to press into cookie dough, roll flat to produce the shape of the outline; they…
- 15 Different Shapes: Package include 15 different designed holiday cookie cutters: snowman, gingerbread, gingerbread house, christmas tree, snowflake…
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Adding a tablespoon each of ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg turns the basic recipe into gingerbread play dough. I recommend using play dough on a cookie sheet for easy clean up. We always have a batch on hand in December for our annual Gingerbread Day.
Christmas mini erasers – I bought these mini erasers years ago and still pull them out every December. Mini erasers are great for graphing, acting out math problems, and sorting.
- Mini Erasers : You will get 300 pieces cute mini erasers in mixed colors and shapes, the size of each pencil eraser is about 0.39-0.59 inches, and the…
- Reliable Material: These mini erasers are made of soft TPR material, safe , durable, easy to eliminate smudges and serve you for a long time.
- Christmas Theme : Christmas series eraser has 7 different patterns, such as Christmas stockings, snowflakes, snowman, elk, Christmas tree, santa claus…
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Flags of the world flash cards – These cards were another Target Dollar Spot find originally used in my world sports boredom-busting basket. Santa travels all around the world, so why not learn a few new flags.
12 Days of Christmas math word problems – I try to include at least one math activity in every boredom-busting basket, and the Christmas boredom-busting basket is no exception. These Christmas word problems can be solved independently or together.
Christmas Mad-libs – My kids absolutely adore Mad-Libs. I usually try to include a few Mad-Libs each week for a little extra grammar practice. We are now officially on Christmas break, but this will still sneak in the practice.
- Used Book in Good Condition
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