Happy Sticker Gingerbread Houses: Christmas Cardboard Box Fun For Kids

Our 23 Days of Christmas activities series has been hence fun this year! My kids are loving the activities each 24-hour interval in addition to nosotros are having fun sharing them alongside you! It has been squeamish to laid aside chores in addition to shopping to focus on connecter in addition to having a expert fourth dimension together each 24-hour interval for a picayune bit.

Today for Day fourteen we're sharing these Sticker Gingerbread Houses! My kids played alongside their houses for HOURS in addition to are nonetheless finding novel ways to do alongside them. You must endeavour this.

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• large cardboard box (we used a wardrobe box) or several small-scale boxes
• packing tape
• stickers
• shark serrated knife
• colored cardstock
• scissors

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Before the kids outset decorating their houses, I prep it ahead past times cutting off the side flaps on ii sides (on the top) in addition to hence I record them together to brand a tall roof. I tap the pieces at the roof trouble to proceed them together.

Next, I cutting out a door in addition to windows.

Once that is done, the kids are ready to outset decorating!

We made a roof for our gingerbread identify using colored cardstock in addition to packing tape.

The best operate of this activeness is the STICKERS!

The kids grab their favorites in addition to decorate them completely alongside stickers. If yous choose candy shaped stickers, that would endure awesome, simply fifty-fifty the regular former Dory, Nemo, car, truck kind of cars are fun too.

My kids also similar to clit out our Do-a-dot markers in addition to pigment their houses. 

We unremarkably proceed the houses out for a calendar week or hence in addition to they are constantly finding novel ways to do in addition to play alongside them.

Once activeness they loved was using play hammers to hitting golf game tees through the cardboard. LOL. So hence their houses were covered inwards picayune gilded tees. I allow them follow their ain creative paths (within reason), piece I grab upward on Christmas online shopping in addition to getting the identify ready for Christmas.

The kids also sometimes pretend their houses are domestic dog houses or houses for their animals in addition to they convey them all downstairs in addition to play alongside them inside. 

If yous brand your ain Gingerbread houses out of cardboard boxes, post me a picture! I desire to depository fiscal establishment check them out!

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Not alone is this activeness FUN, simply kids also piece of occupation on dissimilar skills piece they play! As they engage inwards pretend play they are using their imaginations. As they chat in addition to piece of occupation together alongside siblings or friends they are working on edifice their linguistic communication skills in addition to practicing expert manners too. We talked a lot nearly waiting for turns alongside materials in addition to practiced how to do that happily. Turn-taking in addition to sharing are of import social skills.

Kids also strengthen finger muscles when they are pulling in addition to sticking stickers on the house. Strong finger muscles assistance kids every bit they larn to write! Painting in addition to moving around to do assistance kids educate their large motor skills every bit they opened upward in addition to unopen doors, become inwards in addition to out, in addition to exercise large arm movements to pigment their entire box.

There are hence many non bad things happening during this picayune activity. I beloved it!

Here's what it looks similar alongside 3/4 kids having their ain picayune house! LOL! They are taking over my house.

Here are all of the fun things we've been upward to hence far this month!

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Day 1- Wreath making station

Day 2- Cooking Cutter painting (to brand wrapping paper)

Day 3- Candy Cane hunt & match

Day 4- Make Giant Gingerbread men

Day 5- Christmas Fizzy Drips for Kids

Day 6- Make a Christmas Tree Sticker Wall

Day 7- Play alongside Christmas Cloud Dough

Day 8- Christmas Cookie Cutter Puzzles

Day 9- Mess Free Christmas Painting

Day 10- Look at Christmas Lights

Day 11- Make Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

Day 12- Sparkly Name Christmas Tree Craft

Day 13- Make a Christmas Fort

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