Ways Your Toddler Can Help Prepare for Christmas

The holiday season, especially around Christmas time, is often a busy time for just about everyone. Yet our toddlers have so many opportunities to help prepare for Christmas. I want to share with you some fun and unique ways to get your toddler involved in the hustle and bustle of the season that will help your whole family slow down.

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In the Kitchen

Lots of things happen in the kitchen this time of year! My boys love working in the kitchen and find so much joy in the little tasks. We can prepare our kitchen with tools like a learning tower, to make this work safe and very accessible to them. Also, check out this list of functional kitchen tools for your child. Here are some ways that your toddler can help out in the kitchen for Christmas.

Measuring and dumping ingredients into a bowl
Mixing
Peeling vegetables with a child-safe peeler
Rolling and cutting out out cookie dough
Frosting cookies
Making orange juice for Christmas breakfast
Sweeping

A child's hand using a cookie cutter with cookie dough.

Around the House

A lot of work has to be done often to prepare the home for Christmas. These are some of the things we will get our boys involved in around the house to decorate for Christmas. Toddlers thrive when they have purposeful and meaningful work. Preparing the home beautifully for the Christmas season is a great opportunity for a toddler to help.

Hanging ornaments on the tree
Pushing buckets with decorations around the house (great heavy work opportunities)
Putting lights in the windows
Setting up the Nativity scene
Setting out books for our Advent book calendar (get all the details here!)
Making Christmas cards
Putting stamps on envelopes for mailing Christmas cards
Placing Christmas cards into the mailbox
Hanging up the stockings
Watering the Christmas tree

For Others

This is a time to be thinking of giving to others. We can help our toddlers to do this with a few simple actions. As we prepare to show love and kindness to the other members of our family and community, we can invite our child to join us in these thoughtful tasks.