Making Christmas Tree Holiday Cards & Learning Colors While Using Fine Motor Skills

This was such a fun and easy holiday project to do with toddlers. You have to cut out the triangle, rectangle, and star for the tree and use a hole puncher to make different colored dots for the Christmas tree lights, but toddlers are pretty entertained by watching you if you talk through everything you're doing and using, not to mention taking the time to talk about the shapes and colors involved.

Placing the shapes on the card and talking about what glue is to make them stick in place is definately part of the experience. After doing one, I let my toddler use the glue stick himself, which he loved. 

You can use so many things to decorate the tree. I was trying to keep this simple, so we used glitter pens ($1 from the dollar tree) and then had fun spreading the glitter and dots around (small motor skills), and we also talked to more about colors. 

We ended up making 12 of these for Christmas cards, and you should have seen his face when we put our real Christmas tree up and decorated it. He pointed to one of the Christmas cards and then the Christmas tree in astonishment saying "Christmas tree Christmas tree," as if the cards gave him an introduction to what the Christmas tree was all about. 

Happy Holidays!