Reindeer Week: Toddler Christmas Activities

Looking for some fun reindeer themed toddler Christmas activities to help keep your little ones busy? These reindeer activities were so much fun and my hope is that you will enjoy them as much as we have this past week!

Each day we would enjoy reading reindeer themed books, completing reindeer themed toddler Christmas activities and even loved making our own reindeer snack at the end of the week!

This post is all about reindeer themed toddler Christmas activities.

Reindeer Themed Toddler Christmas Activities

Reindeer books

We enjoyed reading a reindeer themed book each day. We would either read it together or would watch it read aloud on Youtube. Below I will share the books we enjoyed with links in case you want to look them up too!

Reindeer Toddler Christmas Activities

Below you will find the activities we absolutely loved doing this week!

Reindeer Shape Foam and Water Activity

This activity was so much fun and was definitely one of our favorites from the week!

Supplies needed:

• craft foam sheets
• scissors
• spray bottle
• water

First, simply trace reindeer shapes onto craft foam and cut out the pieces. Then, spray foam and window with water and you are ready for some fun! The spray bottle truly added so much fun to this activity and also provided some fine motor practice. Watching the foam stick to the window by just adding water was like magic to her!

I have included a free template for the reindeer that you can use as tracers. Just print and cut the shapes and trace onto the foam sheets to make it easier. Download below and have fun!

Reindeer Shape Foam and Water Activity Tracers

Reindeer Sensory Bin

This sensory bin was a big hit this week! Sensory bins have so many developmental benefits in addition to being fun and entertaining. With this sensory bin, I decided to pair it with a book. Inspiration for this bin came from the book and movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer- the 1964 version (also, she has been SUPER into Rudolph so it was a must try).

I found this cute sticker book and chose a few stickers to make into some characters for her to play with for the sensory bin. First, simply put the stickers onto colored construction paper and laminate them (optional) for a little more durability. Then, tape them onto some wooden pieces. I found these pieces from a train set she has and they worked perfectly for allowing them to stand up. Look around at some toys you already have and you might find some you can do this with as well! For the remaining characters, I taped them to plastic cups to help keep them upright.

For the “water” and “snow” in the sensory bin, I colored pasta and used two different kinds of pasta shells. To color the pasta, place the pasta into baggies and pour in some paint. Next, shake up the bags! Then, let the pasta dry out over night on parchment paper. Pasta makes the most fun sensory base! I also added in some red pom pom noses, some little presents and trees I found around the house and a few reindeer ornaments I had picked up at Target!

Keep it simple and use what you have! The best part of sensory bins is there is no right or wrong, its just fun!

Sensory bin supplies needed:

• storage container
• pasta (I used radiatore pasta and egg noodles)
• paint
• red pom poms
• reindeer ornaments
• stickers
• construction paper
• plastic cups or wooden pieces
• cup and shovel (for scooping fun)
• any fun addition from around your house!

She loved reading the book before playing in the sensory bin. For a fun addition while she played, I challenged her to hide the red noses (red pom poms) and she then enjoyed scooping them up and putting them underneath the cups. She also loved scooping up the snow with the shovel and pouring it back out into the bin! I definitely see us doing more sensory bins tied to books like this in the future! It was so fun!

Reindeer Tracks and Letter R Practice

This super easy activity lasted so long and is the perfect activity that will help you get the dishes/some chores done while they play screen free!

Simply grab some white Play-Doh and a few reindeer ornaments (found these at Target). We first made the letter r together for reindeer. We love using Play-Doh molds to make the letters but you could also do it without them. The first thing we did was go over its letter name and sound! Then, it was time for her to make reindeer tracks!

She absolutely loved playing with the reindeers, putting them into different “scenes” and had fun making the tracks in the snow (Play-Doh). This activity was such a fun one for her, it was honestly hard to get her to stop when we needed to clean it up!

Toddler Christmas Crafts

Reindeer Water Color Painting

For a little fine motor practice we did some watercoloring painting! I love using coloring pages with water colors because they always turn out so pretty. The colors dry super nice instead of ending up in one ugly colored blob. There is really only one way you can go wrong- by adding too much water to the paper (which she has definitely done before)! Oops!

These free coloring pages from Chirp Graphics are SO cute and the reindeer page worked perfectly for our painting! The other coloring pages would be fun to use later too!

Reindeer Hat

For some reason, hats just a make a theme so much more fun! In my first grade classroom, I used to love letting my students make hats and helping her make this reindeer hat was just as much fun as I remembered.

This free reindeer hat from Primary Playground was the perfect addition to our reindeer week.

She loved coloring the hat with these fun finger crayons and felt so proud wearing a reindeer on her head!

Reindeer Faces Play-Doh Emotions

We love using Play-Doh and this was the perfect way to play while also practicing emotion vocabulary words.

First, we went over each of the reindeer face emotions and then made them together using Play-Doh. When we were finished, the Play-Doh turned into a whole family of dinosaurs! Seeing the creativity that comes from Play-Doh is the best! I try to fit in learning wherever we can but I mostly just want these activities to be fun. I always let her guide and let the activity go wherever it may.

You can grab this super fun free reindeer mat from Kelly McFarland from Engaging Littles here.

Letter R is for Reindeer Dot Marker Practice

We love using dot markers! These Dauber Dawg dot markers are some of our favorites to use. We first went over letter r and quickly talked about its name and sound. I like to talk to her about letters like I would animal sounds. I just simply state letter r says “rrrr” just like I would say a cow says “moo”. Just keeping it simple and fun for her right now while also introducing important learning concepts.

She had fun using the dot markers over the letters and the little reindeer on the page even got dotted.

This r is for reindeer page can have so many great uses and it also came from Kelly McFarland from Engaging Littles and you can grab it here.

Reindeer Snack

Another success of the week was our reindeer snack! She absolutely LOVED making these little reindeers and they were a yummy little treat too!

Super simple and easy to make!

Supplies needed:

• graham crackers
• m & ms
• peanut butter
• pretzels

Reindeer Movies

Reindeer week wouldn’t be complete without watching Rudolph! We love the watching the 1964 version. We were able to find in on Youtube and watched it there.

Also, we watched the new movie “Reindeer in Here” and it was a cute one too!

This post was all about reindeer themed toddler Christmas activities.

My hope is that you enjoy these reindeer activities with your littles and if you give them a try let me know how they go below!

Happy teaching, learning and playing!

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