Christmas Track Game

Who will reach the Christmas tree first? Roll the die, read the cards, and see!

To make this track game I used a red file folder, white square stickers, and Christmas stickers. I placed the white stickers in a track leading to the Christmas tree sticker. I placed stocking stickers on several of the white squares. To play you will need markers (we used Christmas Little People figures) and a bag of either letter or word cards. When I played this with three year old Lauren I used letter cards. For five year old Julia I will use sight word cards.


The directions are placed at the top, left corner of the game board. The players roll a die and move the correct number of spaces. If the player lands on a space with a sticker then she must read a card from the bag.


Two of the spaces are labeled "Poinsettia Patch". a player who lands here must read three cards.


Play continues until everyone reaches the Christmas tree. We like to have the Little People sing a Christmas song around the tree but I guess that is optional!

Latches and Letters

In this activity Lauren was able to exercise her hand muscles, memory, and letter knowledge all at the same time. But don't tell her she was learning, she was sure it was just a lot of fun!


To play this game we used our Melissa and Doug Latches Board, six sandpaper letters, and six small letter cards.


Lauren chose a small letter card, identified the letter, and hid it behind one of the doors. She continued until all of the letters were hid.


Then I showed her a sandpaper letter and she traced the letter, identified the letter, and searched behind the doors until she found the letter. She continued until she found all of the letters. I knew this activity was a hit when she asked to play it again the next day!