Christmas activity plans

Activity book stocking stuffers for kids

An art book is a stocking gift that keeps going after the chocolate has gone. Here is how to make it work.

Pick by the child, not the stocking

Choose the Christmas book that fits how your child likes to make pictures: tracing for ages 3 to 5, step by step for kids who want to draw it themselves, grid for careful copiers. A full-size activity book may not slide into a small stocking, so it can sit beside the stocking or poke out of the top.

Add the small things that make it usable

A pencil, an eraser and a few crayons or colored pencils turn the book into something they can start on Christmas morning. A small sharpener is the thing everyone forgets.

Tuck in a free page

Print one of the free sheets and roll it up with a ribbon. It works as a taster on its own, and as a little extra for a sibling who is getting a different gift.

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