Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about firs, but also with books about other trees and plants that are popular during the Christmas holiday.

Snacks for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Some snack cake companies sell snack cakes that are shaped and decorated like Christmas trees. Another idea is to let your preschool students help you roll out sugar cookie dough, cut it with Christmas tree cookie cutters, bake and decorate. Yum!

Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Letter: Ff for fir
Number: 3 for the 3 letters in the word fir
Shape: triangle
Color: green

Fine Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Play dough: Let your preschool students make Christmas tree shapes from green play dough. They may make the play dough Christmas trees free hand or using cookie cutters. Let them add tiny decorations that they have made from other colors of play dough to their Christmas trees.

Gross Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Decorating a Christmas tree requires much stretching of the arms and legs. Help your students prepare to decorate your classroom Christmas tree by playing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Afterwords, let them stretch their arms and legs while decorating your classroom Christmas tree.

Art Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Free art: Give each of your preschool students a piece of white paper and crayons. Instruct them to draw a Christmas tree. Encourage their creativity. There is no wrong way to do free art. The process is what is important, not the final product.

Songs/Finger Plays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

There is an action rhyme called Five Little Christmas Trees at this link.

Pre-math Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

Set out the letters f-i-r that you have previously cut from felt or laminated construction paper. Put out an example of the word fir for your students to use as a guide. Have them set out the letters, properly spelling the word fir. Instruct your preschool students to count the number of letters in the word fir. Now have your preschool students count out 3 green triangles to set beneath the 3 lettered word.

Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Christmas Trees

For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters F and f lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. Do the same with the number 3.

For older students, provide an example of the letters F and f and the number 3. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.

Write the word fir on your preschool classroom's white erase board. Let your students copy the word fir on the white board with green dry erase markers.