Need a quick and cheap treat for a holiday classroom party? Christmas crack is a yummy candy dessert that will guarantee to be gone by the end of the night!

This is a treat I often forget about during the holidays. In fact, it was an accident that I even remembered it! I was trying to come up with a holiday treat idea for the class and got to talking with my own children about the types of holiday sweets and treats that I enjoyed as a kid. 

That's when I remembered...CHRISTMAS CRACK! Do people even still make this? I haven't seen it around in a looooong time! (Ok, not THAT long of a time. I'm not super old...yet! Ha!)

I was excited to remember this recipe because, besides being delicious and festive, it's a recipe you can easily send home with students to do with their family over Christmas break. You don't need a lot of ingredients and it's fairly cheap to make. Plus, it's so yummy! Let's be honest, this is a treat that will be eaten very quickly. 

You'll need to grab a large cookie sheet and some foil. Heavy duty foil works best, but you can use regular foil if that's what you have laying around. You can use parchment paper too. 

Buy a box of saltine crackers, two sticks of unsalted butter, 8-10 crushed candy canes, 1 cup of packed brown sugar, and about a cup of mini chocolate chips. 


Once you've got everything ready to go, put your foil on the cookies sheet. MAKE SURE YOU GREASE YOUR FOIL! I'm embarrassed to admit that when I was making my first batch, I completely forgot to spray the foil...which wound up being ok, but it took me a long time to carefully peel the foil from the crackers! So save yourself some time, and don't make the same mistake I did!

Lay the crackers on the foil. Make sure they are touching on all sides. Then bring the butter and sugar to a boil in a small pan. Once it's ready, pour it over the crackers and spread it out evenly. 

Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top of the butter/sugar mixture. Wait just a moment while they start to melt and then spread those out evenly as well. Once that's done, sprinkle the crushed up candy cane on top and put the cookie sheet in the fridge for a 2-3 hours. 


Once it's hardened, pull the cookie sheet out of the fridge and use a pizza cutter to slice it in many directions. It's a good thing you remembered to grease the foil so that they didn't stick! 

Put it in a cute holiday tray and serve! 



Thanks for letting me share this recipe with you! I hope your littles love and enjoy this yummy treat. 

Don't forget to download some FREE Christmas Strip Puzzles for your kiddos to do while they eat their Christmas treat!

Enjoy! 

-Til next time
    
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Two's Day (Tuesday), 2/22/22

Mind blown! Need I say more?! 

What an incredibly unique and fun day to make memories on!

Celebrate Two's Day on Tuesday, 2/22/22 (OR on 2/2/22) with a fun and easy Two's Day Flip Book that incorporates writing, patterns, task skills, finding pairs, counting by 2s, drawing & more!


Six different tabs provide fun, quick, mini activities that won't take up your whole day but will still allow your students to have a little fun on this special day. 


The cover has a place for your student to write their name so that they can proudly display their celebratory work on a classroom bulletin board or in the hallway.


 
The first page of the flip book allows students to work on their writing skills. First they will trace the gray scale date, and then they will write the date on their own. 
This page has two options: one for February 22 and one for February 2.



The next page asks students to draw triangles and count by 2s! Encourage your students to continue counting verbally to you or a friend by 2s past 28. 



Pairs come in twos! Can your students find the matching pairs? Guide your students through this activity by setting up sentences for them to finish. 

"Milk and _________."
"Salt and ________."
"Eggs and ________."
"Cat and _________."
"Bread and _______."
"Cake and ___________."
"Burger and ________."



I'm always looking for a way to sneak in some ways to get students to consciously think about being kind! See if they can come up with 2 ideas of things they can do TO-day to be kind to someone else. 


Get your students started on some AB pattern review while they brainstorm which friend they would like to draw a picture of themselves with. Bonus points if they are doing something kind for that friend in the picture!


Simple check lists can improve student learning. Use this opportunity to talk to your kiddos about what a check list is, how to make one, and how to implement one! Then get them jumping and hopping with this "Two"-do list page.


My favorite part is next-putting them together! Show students how to stack them up by putting some glue on the "glue" tabs. 






You can get this Two's Day Flip Book HERE. 
Celebrate Two's Day on Tuesday, 2/22/22 with this fun, easy to make flip book that incorporates writing, patterns, counting by 2s, task skills, & more
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Celebrate Two's Day on Tuesday, 2/22/22 with this fun, easy to make flip book that incorporates writing, patterns, counting by 2s, task skills, & more


Thanks for letting me share these activities with you! I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teacher life & prep just a tad bit easier!

-Til next time
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These Christmas Bible nativity activities for kids include crafts, readers, Bible stories, lesson plans for teachers, posters, games, songs, & more!
I'm very excited to introduce the newest unit that has been added to my Bible Curriculum for Toddlers, Pre-K, & Kinders. 

"God's Gift" is a Christmas unit mapped out especially for your choice of Toddlers, Pre-K, or Kindergarten kiddos. It includes FIVE easy to follow, 60-90 minute lesson plans that were made with Sunday School in mind, but are also a perfect fit for church curriculum, Sunday School teachers, Homeschool Parents, Christian parents, and Christian school teachers. 

---Update: An additional 6th BONUS LESSON has been added!---


The unit includes a Big Truth: God's Gift Is Jesus and Bible Verse: 1 John 4:10 "God...loved us and sent his son." that are reiterated throughout all of the lessons in the unit. Colorful posters of the Big Truth and Bible Verse for your classroom are available to print.


The lessons included each have their own unique mini-truth while also reiterating the Big Truth of the unit that God's Gift Is Jesus. The lessons are as follows:


(Update: An additional 6th BONUS LESSON: SIMEON SEES JESUS has been added!) 

Each lesson included can each be used for a 60-90 minute class time, depending on which activities you choose to use. This allows for an easy stopping point if class time is running short or long. Easy-to-follow teacher directions are available so that you can simply print and hand to whoever is teaching the class! 


Also included in the unit are TONS of activity sheets, craftivities, class & student books, games, song & song poster, Big Truth & Bible Verse posters, teacher instructions & more...


One of my personal favorite activities in the unit is letting the kiddos break apart uncooked spaghetti noodles, match the sizes to the pieces of hay in the picture, and glueing them on. There is something very therapeutic and stress relieving about breaking uncooked spaghetti! 



Much prayer was spent before making each Bible lesson in the unit. My goal with all of my Bible curriculum is to retell the Bible stories in a way that helps little learners understand God's Word while also meeting them where they're at and building their skills. My prayer was that God would help me simplify each story for these younger loves, without taking away from it. 

The following student stories/emergent readers (plus full sized corresponding colorful class books) use easy-to-read text and are packed full of sight words! Kids will LOVE having their very own kid-friendly version of the stories to take home with them after the lesson each week. They are a great way to get parents and siblings engaged in the stories the kids are learning in your class. Hopefully, they will re-read (or help their little learner read) the emergent readers at home!



I have truly enjoyed creating every unit that is added to my Bible curriculum and hope that you and your littles are blessed by it as well! 


Here are the links for purchasing:

You can save a lot of money by purchasing all of the units in a bundle rather than separately:
 Bible Curriculum Bundle for Toddlers, Pre-K, & Kinders

OR purchase this Christmas unit separately:
"God's Gift" Christmas Bible Unit" 

Don't forget to PIN this post so that you can remember this unit for future planning!

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These Christmas Bible nativity activities for kids include crafts, readers, Bible stories, lesson plans for teachers, posters, games, songs, & more!


Thanks for letting me share these activities with you! I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teacher life & prep just a tad bit easier!

Merry Christmas and blessings to you and your family!

-Til next time
    
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