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10pcs DIY Diamond Painting Christmas Tree Ornaments

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Diamond painting has been very popular over the last 12 months, with diamond painting taking over jig saw puzzle activities during lockdowns. Diamond painting is not only creative but can be soothing for your soul. The ability to shut off and think only of the activity in hand is a great way to de-stress.  But what do you do once you ar efnished? Unlike jig saw puzzles, you can’t just break them up and do them again.

These Christmas ornaments are perfect for you to craft and make and then use them as gifts or on gifts are Christmas time. No more storing finished projects, you can actually give these little mini dimaond paintins away. Better still they are in our new store for only $1 each and come in packs of 10 with FREE Worldwide Shipping. Order fast as Christmas stock cut-off is coming soon.

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Five Senses Crafts and Activities for Preschool

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways. 

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included. 

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt. 

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like). 

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs. 

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts. 

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing. 

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.