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Festive Printable Christmas Gift Tags that Kids Can Color!

Get your kids involved in wrapping gifts for family and friends this year by inviting them to color these fun printable Christmas gift tags!

Printable Christmas gift tags with colored pencils for kids to color.

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I’ll be honest. I’m not usually one for fancy gift wrapping. I love it, I admire it, but as the mom of three young boys…I don’t have time for it. I do almost all the wrapping of gifts around our house, so I usually buy a pack of the sticker-style gift tags and call it good.

But this year I got inspired to do something a little different.

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Printable Christmas Bingo Game

This classic Christmas bingo game is a simple way to entertain kids at holiday parties or for a fun family game night. Just print, cut, and play!

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Are your kids going bonkers for Christmas right now? Mine certainly are. We have lots of festive activities planned for the next few weeks, so hopefully the time will fly by quickly for them.

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Quick and easy Christmas preschool learning game: find the presents! 

Kids excited for Christmas? This simple Christmas preschool learning game is a great way to use something kids love–opening presents at Christmas–to teach them valuable academic skills.Kids excited for Christmas? This simple Christmas preschool learning game is a great way to use something kids love--opening presents at Christmas--to teach them valuable academic skills. If your kids are anything like mine, they’re fairly bouncing off the walls at this point in anticipation of Christmas morning. And if you are anything like me, you are grasping for ideas of how to keep them occupied during these last few days before Christmas.

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Felt Christmas tree for kids (with printable templates)

Do your toddlers have a hard time leaving your Christmas tree alone? Try giving your kids their very  own (unbreakable) felt Christmas tree to decorate over and over again this Christmas season! 

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My little boys are drawn to the lights on our Christmas tree like moths to a flame. It’s adorable to watch them stare at the twinkling lights, and poke at them gently. The only problem is that the gentle poking often turns into not-so-gentle grabbing of ornaments.

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The Sweet Smell of Christmas: A Preschool Activity

This simple Christmas preschool activity with The Sweet Smell of Christmas is a fun way to get kids thinking about the signs and symbols of Christmas while building vocabulary, practicing matching skills, and engaging their senses. 
This simple Christmas preschool activity with The Sweet Smell of Christmas is a fun way to get kids thinking about the signs and symbols of Christmas while building vocabulary, practicing matching skills, and engaging their senses.

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I was driving to the store last weekend with my boys (to buy more lights for our half-lit tree), and I couldn’t help but smile at their excited chatter about Christmas. “Mom, he said ‘baby Jesus’ on dere!” exclaimed Little Brother pointing to the car radio, which was playing Christmas music….

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My Favorite Simple Christmas Tradition

If you want to add some extra laughs (and funny pictures) to your holiday this year, try a wrapping paper jump. This simple Christmas tradition is a fun, no-effort way to celebrate after all the presents have been opened.If you want to add some extra laughs (and funny pictures) to your holiday this year, try a wrapping paper jump. This simple Christmas tradition is a fun, no-effort way to celebrate after all the presents have been opened.

Christmas morning is magical. Little footie-pajama clad kiddos stand wide-eyed looking at colorful, wrapped packages. Giggles and squeals of glee accompany the sound of ripping of paper. The piles of paper grow bigger, and bigger until…it’s all over.

What do you do with the wrapping once all the presents have been opened?

If you’re looking at your screen quizzically right now thinking “…uh, throw it away?” then you’re missing out!…

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