Christmas Tree

A wonderful multi-sensory activity to get everyone in the Christmas spirit and practice using all the wonderful rich language that Patricia Toht uses in her book ‘Pick a Pine Tree.’

Set up

Everything you need for this activity is provided in our December Christmas box. I cut out the inside of the Christmas Tree template from the box, put the green sensory rice in a bowl, and put the chickpeas (baubles), dried orange slices, wooden decorations and star on the table. I also added the book from the box to read together.

I placed the Christmas Tree template into a tray to contain the sensory rice.

My son needed no prompting to start and quickly poured the rice into the Christmas tree template. Together we carefully lifted the template and we were left with a Christmas tree shape made from the rice.

Then it was time to decorate.

I’ll be honest I wasn’t allowed to help at all with decorating his tree!!!

But as my son decorated we talked about the words and phrases we had read in the book and used them as each decoration was very carefully placed on the tree.

We have done this activity a lot and it is a firm favourite here!