10+ FREE Christmas Do-a-Dot Pages!

Are YOU ready for Christmas?  In years past, I have been finished with all of my Christmas shopping by AUGUST.  Last year, we finished on Christmas Day (seeing as how my husband was building my boys a kitchen from scratch).  But the majority of the shopping was done in October!  But this year . . . ?  I am 8 and a half months pregnant, my kids don't need a single thing, and I am preoccupied with other things (like homeschooling two boys and this blog). As sad as it is to say this, I haven't bought a single Christmas present.  In fact, my son turns 3 in 2 weeks, and I bought him 2 things- a pair of shoes and a car.  

I'm seriously behind.

What about you?  Are you an early or late shopper? And what about getting in the Christmas spirit?  Are you already listening to all 8 Christmas songs (haha, just kidding)!

Here is one way to get in the spirit of things! Visit my TpT store, download this file, and print out as many or as few of these Christmas Do-a-Dot pages as you'd like!  I'd love to hear how you use them!  Make sure you comment below!  Are you liking all of these freebies?  Make sure you subscribe by email, otherwise you'll miss out! Subscribers will be offered free printables right to their inbox!  

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10 FREE Do-a-Dot Pages!

My boys love cars, and I love making school activities for them and for all of those in favor of educating little ones!  

I programmed my son's do-a-dot pages with beginning blends.  Then, because we have all this marvelous Halloween candy to boost homeschool morale, I let him cover the blends that I read to him.  Sometimes I pointed to the blend and had him read them to me.  After the trophy was full, he got to eat them.  This motivated him to actually finish something he started, which proves to be a challenge!

I also let my son color the blends.  

And finally, I saved his favorite activity for last- stickers!  This helps with those fine motor skills!  He went back over the blends (for the third time), and covered the ones I read with stickers.  

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Dot a Blend

Do-a-Dot markers are all the rage on Pinterest.  But do you think that my boys have any interest in them?  Not particularly.  I bought the paint dabbers as a Christmas gift last year, and they have barely been touched.  My boys don't do anything tedious, and these paint dabbers are included.

So I had to get creative. 

I found a blank Do-a-Dot printable and cut it into smaller sections that my son could finish.  I filled in the circles with blends- this particular time he had the ca, ke, ki, co, cu ladder repeated throughout.  I asked him to pick a color, and asked him to find whatever blend I called out. We went row by row, with him dotting each blend, searching for the first blend.  When the first blend was painted, he switched colors, and dotted the next blend that I called out. 

Looking excited here . . .

Yet totally done here, two seconds later!

Even with such a small piece of paper, my 2-yr-old was done before the page was. But I didn't mind!  He got plenty of practice, and I have several other blend charts for him to dot another time- cut from the same sheet of paper! Now that's frugal homeschooling at its finest!