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December 3, 2015 | 4 Comments

Holiday Writing Center

Writing center idea for december with christmas cards

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Do you send holiday cards? I haven’t even begged my kids to pose for a picture yet but it’s on my to do list. Normally I use Tiny Prints holiday cards  and love them, this year I am thankful they have New Years Cards because that is a little more my timeline. What did fit into my schedule was whipping this writing center together for my daughter after school and it was a hit. She LOVED this. It was so simple, but it was exactly perfect for after a long day at school. Fun, meaningful writing, it doesn’t get much better than that!

holiday card writing center

Gather your materials. You will need some inexpensive holiday cards with envelopes we got ours at the dollar store 20 for $1, something fun to write with like markers, pencils and crayons, some washi tape, sticky labels for return addresses or for pretend stamps. We also added a basket for the outgoing mail which my daughter used as a delivery basket to hand deliver all her cards.

After putting the writing station together invite your child to play. It’s OK if they don’t play right away. Leave it out, grab your own cards and start writing yourself, that usually is the trick of you need one. writing center for children holiday cards

I was totally pleased that she was so into it.

She started by trying her best to read the inside of the cards, christmas card writing station

drew pictures and wrote messageswriting center christmas cards

stuffed and addressed envelopes, Holiday Card Writing Center For Kindergarten

And of course, decorated them with some tape. writing center holiday cards

 

I didn’t capture how happy she was delivering these cards to her family, but take my word for it, she was thrilled to share them with us, and we were thrilled to get these wonderful holiday cards from her.

Need another Christmas writing activity? Check out this Santa writing letter basket from Mom with A Lesson Plan! 

Need a Book About Christmas to round out your activity? Check out this HUGE list of 75 Books About Christmas, I even include reviews of all 75.

best christmas books for kids

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4 Comments

  1. Anne says

    December 3, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    What a wonderful idea. I just have a quick question. Where did you buy the green tray?

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    • Allison McDonald says

      December 4, 2015 at 11:00 am

      Walmart!

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  2. Corie says

    December 12, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    Thank you so much for this idea! I got some cards at the dollar store and set up a box with markers and stickers for my 3.5 year old son. I wasn’t sure he’d be into it but randomly during the day he asks me to write my cards while he works on his. I was able to get about 25 cards written and addressed while he was doing his over the course of a couple of days. You saved me some precious sleep since I was able to accomplish this while he was happily creating 🙂 Great idea!

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    December 29, 2015 at 8:57 am

    […] Holiday Writing Center – Yes this is only about a month old but it was such a hit at home with my daughter who is in kindergarten as well as my 3-year-old students at preschool that I had to share it. Also, it can be adapted to any season! […]

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