A Morning Basket for the Advent, Christmas, & the Winter Season
November is very quickly giving way and the holiday season is upon us.
It can be such a busy time of year with so many things that we want to do but that can often lead us to burn out.
The Peaceful Press wants to help make your holidays merry and bright.
We have a life giving and life draining worksheet to help you work through what gives your family life and builds memories and what drains you.
We have also put together A Peaceful Press Christmas Guides to take all of the holiday school planning off of your plate so you can just print and enjoy the holiday season together.
From advent, to Christmas, and through the winter season, we've got you covered.
What to include in your Holiday Morning Basket:
Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide - Unearthing Wonder: A Family Advent Guide is a 25 day Christmas devotional guide to accompany the book All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss. The guide includes verses, activities, recipes, and songs that are geared towards helping your family develop meaningful traditions. Celebrate the simplicity of the Gospel at Christmas with Unearthing Wonder: A Family Advent Guide.
Christmas Guide Volume 1- The Peaceful Press: Christmas Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to continue the work that began in The Peaceful Preschool. Your 3-5-year-old child will continue developing large and fine motor skills, phonics and counting skills, and their love for literature through the stories and projects included in The Peaceful Preschool: Christmas Guide. The unit also includes recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring Christmas a multi-sensory, and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.
Christmas Guide Volume 2- The Peaceful Press: Christmas Guide Volume 2 includes four weekly grids with activities to continue the work began in The Christmas Guide Volume 1. Your 3-6 year old child will continue developing large and fine motor skills, phonics and counting skills, and their love for literature through the stories and projects included in The Peaceful Press: Christmas Guide Volume 2. The unit also includes recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems and art to make savoring Christmas a multi-sensory, and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.
OR you can get all three guides at the low price of $36 with The Christmas Bundle! The bundle includes our Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide, and the original Christmas Guide and The Christmas Guide Volume 2.
The Peaceful Press Holiday Book Flood is a 68-page digital resource that includes 25 picture book suggestions, along with daily prompts for activities, crafts, art, music, and poetry. It's a perfect holiday guide for homeschool families, and can be an after school or evening advent guide for families in traditional school settings. We also include 25 advent cards with the activities so you can hang them on twine for a visual advent calendar! Check out the book list here.
The Winter Guide- The Peaceful Press: Winter Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of comfort and sustenance. Your preschool and early elementary child will develop motor skills, phonics and counting skills, science and nature interest, art skills, and their love for literature through the stories and projects included in The Winter Guide. The unit also includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring winter a multi sensory, and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.
You can also purchase all four seasonal guides bundled together!
-Through the Season Guides: Summer, Spring, Winter, & Autumn
Four guides to make the most of the seasons
Summer Guide
The Peaceful Press: Summer Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of growing and thriving. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring summer a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your 3-7-year-old learners.
Autumn Guide
The Peaceful Press: Autumn Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of harvest and thankfulness. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring autumn a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.
Winter Guide
The Peaceful Press: Winter Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of comfort and sustenance. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring winter a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.
Spring Guide
The Peaceful Press: Spring Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of blossoms and rainbows. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring spring a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.
Individual seasonal guides can be found HERE though the Through the Seasons Guide is the best value.
Calendar Bundle- The Peaceful Press: Calendar Bundle is a free preschool resource for learning dates!!
You can see more Peaceful Press Preschool Resources in our Early Learning Collection!
Chore & Routine Pack- We all know that good habits are an important part of a successful homeschool experience, but sometimes we need a little help. This chore pack is the perfect resource for making good habits fun. The chore pack includes a habit tracker, 116 different cards in 47 pages of color, and black and white printables. We've also included 10 handy instruction guides to help teach your children the step-by-step skills for caring for their environment. This updated bundle now includes a habits checklist and habit tracker for parents. The 47 Page chore pack is only $7. All you do is print, cut, and laminate!
Fine Art Memory Game- Our Peaceful Press Art Memo Game is a lovely way of working on picture study, visual processing, and memory with your child. Included are fine art prints, along with corresponding title and artist, which coincide with The Kind Kingdom, The Precious People and The Playful Pioneers. All you do is print, laminate, and cut, for a beautiful and multi-purpose learning activity with your child.
As homeschoolers we have already chosen to slow down and educate our children at home. We are teaching them to learn to enjoy life instead of rushing through it just to get to the next thing.
Why should the holidays be any different?!
Does your family do holiday schooling?
How do you slow down to be intentional with your family over the busy holiday season?