i need a good christmas activity to do with a three year old.?

Question

i has to be inexpensive though, and fun because she gets bored easily. we already decorated a stocking and a santa hat with glitter glue, but i need activites for three more days...

Answer 1

Make a gingerbread house together!
I also have a three year old, and plan to make a gingerbread house with her as it gets closer to Christmas. You can either buy pre-made dough at the supermarket (Pilsbury has some, I think), or find an easy recipe online.

It might even be funner to make the dough yourself, because you can get your daughter to help measure, dump ingredients into the bowl, and mix.

You should draw out some stencil shapes for walls/roof/chimney, etc and get some cookie-cutter trees or people for added decorations.
Do the actual baking yourself, and then put the house together either with an icing-sugar sticky mix, or with regular sugar melted into a syrup in a hot pan (a bit dangerous though, cuz it can be very hot and messy).

The funnest part is decorating! Your daughter will have tons of fun sticking the candy all over, and eating some at the same time too.
Have fun!

Answer 2

collect some pinecones and paint them with glue. in a zip lock bag put some glitter in add glued pinecone and close. Shake bag until pine cone is coated. wa la an ornament or do a lot and make a center piece for the table.

You can also make bird feeders with peanunt butter and bird seed. Coat pinecone with peanut butter then roll in bird seed. Hang with a piece of wire. you could also put these in bags and give them to relatives or friends as a gift.

Answer 3

Make ornaments with her. I've been making some with my son who is also three. Can't do very much at once due to the short attention span of a 3 year old. One day, we'll cut out star shapes and microwave them. He mostly just plays with the dough, but he does make a couple stars. The next we'll paint a couple stars. I've found stars work good for my son because they're simple and, well, he really likes stars. They also make great gifts for relatives.

Answer 4

cookies. 3 years old love to cut cookes out with cutters and decorate. It takes a lot of patience and you don't end up with perfect cookies but it definitely will kill a couple of hours.

Another activity is birdseed pinecones. Take a large pinecone, spread peanut butter (creamy works best..) and then sprinkle birdseed over it until all the peanut butter is covered. Attach a ribbon or string and hang the pinecone from a tree branch. Kids of this age love to watch birds eat from these. I just did these with my boys and they gave them as gifts.

Answer 5

Hmm...I could say, a child-riskless artset with a few paper, or anything that's sparkly and a laugh. A teddy endure or filled animal. Or little barbie motorbike she'd in most cases love. hmm...Or a few sweet. Toys such because the preschool matters they're known as. Something to preserve them busy and feature a laugh.

Answer 6

Start a hobby with the child, that grows with the child. When I was little, my dad built a Christmas platform with trains. Each year I grew older, it got bigger and bigger. I'm now 38 and still into trains with my dad. I can not only say that it's a hobby but also a bond that grew between myself and him!
There are alot of companies out there that build trains for all ages! It might be something for you to look into!

Answer 7

If you are religious at all get an advent calendar and let the child open one door each day, or get simple cheap toys,, a new crayon, a washable marker in a different color each day,, etc,, to let your child have a gift each day up to Christmas while doing the calendar,, also use it as a teaching tool,, each day up to Advent to do a good nice thing for someone on each day.

Answer 8

you will need a jar like a baby food jar with lid ,mineral oil ,glitter and supper glue and something to put on the lid snowman or bells
what you do first is glue what ever you like to lid then put glitter in then put oil in leave about 1/4 inch room for air. let dry you have your own snowglobe

Answer 9

Make a wreath using hand prints and adding a little bit of holly berries (thumb prints) every 6 inches or so around. Also, by making hand prints upside down in rows with the bottom row biggest and top row smallest you can make a really cute tree.

Answer 10

Make a birthday cake for baby Jesus together. My mom used to have my sister and me help her bake a cake every year. We loved being in the kitchen and doing "grownup" things, and it helped us to understand what Christmas was really about.