The Candy Cane Christmas Tree Pick Up Game is a fun holiday game and all you need to make it are some pipe cleaners! Great for developing fine motor and concentration skills.
MATERIALS NEEDED (affiliate links):
* Bowl
WHAT TO DO:
1. Start by making Christmas trees with pipe cleaners. We made two different versions. Our spiral trees were made by coiling a pipe cleaner in circles and then pulling the middle up. The triangular trees were made by folding a triangle in about 1 inch sections, then creating the three dimensional branches and looping them together.
2. Create a candy cane by swirling red and white pipe cleaners together and then filing them in half and bending the top to look like a candy cane.
3. Ask the child to pick up the trees using only the candy cane. My 6 year old was able to easily do this, but my 2 year old needed to use his other hand to help him pick up the trees.
4. Once all the trees have been moved to a bowl, have the child empty the bowl and set up the trees to repeat the activity again.
Get holiday pipe cleaners similar to ours here: https://amzn.to/2LmxwO7
Check out Oliver and Alexander playing the game in the below video:
VARIATIONS:
* Make it a competition and have two children compete to see who can pick up the most trees.
* Have the children use two candy canes to pick up the trees.
* See how many trees the child can pick up at one time.
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