Children sense Yuletide excitement and enjoy participating in special activities, projects, and events unique to the season. Gingerbread creations, minty candy canes, and roly poly snowmen decorate store windows and this special issue filled with holiday puzzles. Can your child spot the difference between gingerbread houses that look similar but are not the same? Reunite gingerbread men who’ve lost their matching twin? Assist a misguided snowman who misplaced his head over a holiday maze, or observe details to locate tasty candy canes? Hunting through the newspaper for holiday words and pictures describing seasonal senses is a scavenger hunt with a twist. Your little elf will be busy from now until New Year’s Eve with puzzles guaranteed to feed the holiday spirit! Happy Holidays from Kid Scoop!
In this issue young citizens will:
- use problem solving skills to solve holiday puzzles
- observe like a detective to spot similarities and differences
- locate candy cane combos on a Yuletide grid
- wiggle through a maze to help a grateful snowman find his missing part
- create a “Holidays Around the World” book
- write descriptively about a favorite holiday memory
- follow visual directions to draw a gingerbread man
- use the newspaper to find seasonal pictures and words that describe the five senses
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