Download this set of Christmas themed flashcards to bring together several areas of your kiddo’s development!
Just in case you didn’t see my last post in defense of flashcards, here is the spiel again! 😀
(If you have heard all this before, feel free to scroll down to the download link while enjoying the adorable pictures of my beautiful helper with the epic Baby Shark bow 🙂 )
Flashcards get a bad rap in my opinion – just the mention of “flashcards” may bring back memories of tedious study sessions, mind-numbing mathematics drills, or unengaging lessons…
…but flashcards are just packed with opportunities for learning and development!
You can hit so many aspects of both language and math easily from any set of flashcards – besides the obvious language aspect of seeing a word or a letter and linking it to the object, depending on how you use the cards you can hit every math concept outlined by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
You can teach shapes, colors, numbers, comparisons (big vs small etc), measurements, spacial relationships (for example – the order you lay out or show the cards can teach what things come first, second, third etc and other relationships between what is pictured).
And if you print double, you can set up a matching game which teaches them to sort, classify, and recognize patterns!
But wait!
There’s more! 😀
Use them in a sensory table to add a literacy and math component to a sensory activity! For example, I’ve used my bird flashcards in a sensory table filled with feathers, birdseed, Easter eggs, and more!
Flashcards can also be used for motor skills! Fine motor skills like grasping, pinching, pointing, holding more than one item in the hand, and hand-eye-coordination are used.
To introduce a gross motor action, hide one set of flashcards around the room in places they would need to walk, jump, reach, or climb to. Then give them the second set of cards and let them search for the matching cards!
This set of 12 matching Christmas themed cards includes: Lights, Snowflake, Stocking, Reindeer, Gingerbread Man, Santa, Present, Ornaments, Hat, Elf, Candy Cane and Tree.
You can download them here!
If you print them directly they will print in the large size – to get the smaller size, switch you print settings to 2 pages per printed page.
Enjoy!
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