Make a Christmas tree geo board and follow along with our 25 Days of Christmas STEM Countdown Calendar this holiday season. We love making a geo board out of anything! We have a fun pumpkin geo board and a simple DIY wood board geo board too. Our simple Christmas tree geoboard is perfect for STEM and fine motor skills play!

CHRISTMAS TREE GEO BOARD FINE MOTOR AND STEM ACTIVITY

This month we are counting down the days until Christmas with our 25 Days of Christmas STEM Countdown Calendar. The supplies for this Christmas tree math activity and geo board are easy to grab and can be reused! Or check out our Christmas tree themed STEM ideas!

For our pumpkin geo board we practice hammering skills. However the Christmas tree geo board is a bit to awkward to navigate with a hammer! The nails push into the styrofoam easily and this is a great part of the fine motor skills practice. Check out the supply list and set up below.

A CHRISTMAS TREE GEO BOARD FOR FUN MATH PLAY

First we covered the styrofoam tree with our small nails and then we began adding the green loom bands to create a Christmas tree! Loom bands are terrific fine motor practice tools for little fingers. Lots of skill, patience, finger dexterity, and hand-eye coordinations are needed to manipulate loom bands.

 

SUPPLIES

White or green styrofoam trees {dollar store even has some!}

Small nails {using tacks didn’t work so well with the loom bands}

Loom bands { we used green but go ahead and make it all colors too}

Thumb tacks {we used the colored thumbtacks from the dollar store as ornaments}

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Another neat thing about creating this Christmas tree geo board is the ability to make and talk about all sorts of geometric shapes. Overlapping loom bands creates even more shapes. A fun Christmas activity easily incorporates early learning skills for young kids.

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Learn with hands-on activities like a Christmas tree geo board. Learning time is anytime, so make it themed for holidays and seasons! He was quite determined to fill the tree and use all the loom bands.

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The last step for the Christmas tree geo board activity was to add the colored thumbtacks. We have also used sewing pins and sequins to decorate styrofoam trees, Whatever you have on hand to make it unique is up to you! There’s lots of room for flexibility in materials with this Christmas tree math geo board activity!

Simple fun for math this holiday season!

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More fun Christmas tree ideas to try! Click photos for details.

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Find new Christmas tree ideas for fine motor play from these ladies!

Christmas Tree Fine Motor Craft from Stir the Wonder is another wonderful Christmas tree fine motor activity that’s a bit different from ours if you don’t ant to use nails and tacks! 

Use an egg carton for awesome hands-on Christmas tree themed math that explores math concepts in a fun way.

Working on addition? Check out this fun decorate the Christmas tree with math and fine motor skills! So easy to set up.

Build a LEGO Christmas tree to practice fine motor, engineering, and math skills!

 

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