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Fir Tree Learn & Discover

December 16, 2015 by Marie 1 Comment

Hands on learning is our favorite! This time of the year is perfect for fun Fir Tree Learn & Discover! Use this easy unit to help your child learn more about fir trees.

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Last year we explored fun Christmas traditions with great ways to help teach those traditions to your children this Christmas season.

This Christmas season has been a little off with all our traveling and moving, but we still managed to get in some fun, hands on learning about the beautiful fir trees lining the parking lots and roads in Christmas tree lots.

Fir Tree Learn Books

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Ancient Ones is a beautiful book! The pictures are very inviting and the information about the Douglas Fir is concise, but informational. The reader follows the life of the fir tree from a sprout to decomposition. Well worth the read.

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Gorgeous book with the classic tale from Hans Christian Anderson. The Fir Tree is illustrated with beautifully inviting clothbound illustrations. Must read for the Christmas season.

Fir Tree Discover

Although our small home living didn’t lend itself well to a full size fir tree this year, we did stop by the local Christmas tree lot and picked up a couple branches of douglas fir branches. We used these for our fun fir tree learn & discover.

If you would like to use a printable for your senses discover you can use a great printable from Gift of Curiosity.

Fir tree exploration is perfect for this time of year. Easy set up and clean up top!

Setup for this activity is very easy. Just clip off a couple ends of the fir tree branches and add them to a tray.

I talked with the kids about smelling, touching, seeing, and hearing the fir trees. We decided to leave taste out of this discovery.

The smell of a fir tree is unmistakable! Explore with the sense of smell this holiday season.

Smelling is pretty easy. As soon as you cut the branches the fragrance is unmistakeable.

Wonderful way to discover fir tree with touch!

Touching the end your child will feel the prickly feel.

Explore fir tree with sight

The kids noticed the beautiful, rich green color of the fir limbs.

Explore fir tree with sound

We used the branches like drum sticks to hear how the branches felt while tapping.

Fir Tree Art

After exploring our fir tree pieces, we pulled out some paint for fun resist art. I would note that you may want to use tape that does not stick as well. Ours kind of stuck to the paper! Although the process was the same, the end product could have been a little better.

 

Painting with fir tree

Notice with your child the beautiful stroke fir tree branches make and how the branches need do not soak up quite as much paint as a paint brush.

Fir Tree Learn Links

There are so many great posts out there to extend your fir tree learn & discover activities, but these are some of our favorites.

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One of our admins blogs at Study at Home Mama and has a very easy DIY Charlie Brown Christmas Tree project. There is still time to put this together this Christmas season!

Christmas Montessori Tot Trays - ChristianMontessoriNetwork.com

On Christian Montessori Network we have our Montessori Space for Christmas and Christmas Montessori-Inspired Tot Trays for you to explore. No doubt there is plenty of wonderful Christmas inspiration in these two posts!

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The Preschool Toolbox Blog has a really wonderful post to help your preschooler with the Life Cycle of a Christmas Tree.

Have a very, Merry Christmas and enjoy your Fir Tree Learn & Discover!

Filed Under: Elementary, Preschool (3-6 years), Seasons, Toddler (1-3 years) Tagged With: Books, Christmas, Fir Tree

About Marie

Marie is a work-at-home mother of two. After much self-study and with a background in education, she chose to follow her own children in their education and created the blog Child Led Life. She is also the owner of Montessori Bloggers Network. Marie is a baptized Catholic turned Methodist, but currently attends a church affiliated with the southern baptist convention. She enjoys contemporary services focusing on the community of believers and loves meeting God in the great outdoors.

Comments

  1. Vanessa says

    December 20, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    There are so many wonderful ideas for learning about fir trees! 🙂 The book, “Ancient Ones” looks really beautiful.

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