Wish stockings are a great way to build fine motor as well as literacy skills. We found this great exercise over at La-La's Home Daycare. Start by providing your kiddos with a festive stocking cutout, scissors, and some old magazines. Invite them to use the magazines to create a picture "wish list" on their stocking, cutting out images and pasting them onto the cutout. When finished, have your preschoolers identify the item they want the most by circling it, placing a star sticker next to it,...
