Christmas activities with your Creative-Tonie

With all the excitement for Santa’s arrival, kiddies can get a little, shall we say, restless! Meanwhile, you have heaps of presents to wrap, festive food to cook and Christmas cards to write. But don’t fret, we have the perfect solution.

Published 16/11/23 by Amy Blanchard

Christmas activities with your Creative-Tonie

Keep those little elves occupied and make the season even more magical with our round up of FREE activities and Christmas audio for their Creative-Tonie (because at this time of year, who doesn’t need to save some pennies?). 

Bake some yummy mince pies with Father Christmas 

Little helpers, get ready, it’s time to make mince pies together! Here’s what you’ll need to get ready, parents:

  • 170g flour

  • 100g butter

  • 1 tbsp caster sugar

  • 1 egg

  • Mincemeat 

Use the mytonies app to assign the free Cooking with Father Christmas audio to their Creative-Tonie. Let them pop the Creative-Tonie on their Toniebox to bake along. Don’t forget to tag us in your creations at @tonies_uk on Instagram.

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Learn new festive facts with our Christmas Quiz

Take part in this fun family quiz for mini (and not-so mini) masterminds to learn aaaaaall about Christmas.

  • Use the mytonies app to assign the free Christmas Quiz audio to their Creative-Tonie

  • Pop the Creative-Tonie on the Toniebox and listen to the questions

  • They can even take the Tonie off until they’ve had a chance to think of an answer and pop it back on to hear if they were correct!

Who will be crowned the Christmas brainiac in your family? 

Christmas Quiz Audio Sample

Listen to Christmas jokes with funny arts and crafts

Assign the free Christmas Crackers audio onto their Creative-Tonie in the mytonies app, it’s stuffed full of jokes and riddles. Why not pop it on in the background while you and your little listeners get down to some arts and crafts together? 

  • Set up a play station with some paper plates and various paints

  • Add some fun decorations like buttons, pom poms, coloured cards, googly eyes and cotton wool puffs to decorate the paper plates

  • Your kiddies can now start creating their very own Santas and reindeers

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Settle down for Santa’s Storytime

Get comfy and cosy to join Father Christmas on his adventures around the world. There’s soooooo many Christmas traditions to discover, like fried chicken in Japan and witches in Italy! Follow along with this brain building activity to help little fact finders discover what the holidays look like all over the world. 

  • Use the mytonies app to assign the free Santa’s Storytime audio to their Creative-Tonie

  • Pop the Creative-Tonie on the Toniebox to start exploring with Santa himself

  • Lay out a world map and some fun markers

  • Once they have heard the country and its tradition, get them to mark where they think the country is on the map

  • To make it even more fun, reward little learners with a Christmas chocolate coin for every correct answer!

Strike a party pose with Christmas statues

This one’s for the movers and the shakers. Get them ready to break out their best jolly moves with DJ Tonie and his cheerful Christmas tunes. Buuuuuut, when the beat stops, prancing dancers will have to strike a festive pose! It could be a Christmas tree or a reindeer, they’ll have to dance along to find out!

Relax with Snow Ga

Let your tinies enjoy a moment of calm amongst all the Christmas chaos with this festive-themed yoga session. So, get started by finding a nice, comfy space on the floor and get them ready to float away into their imagination. The relaxing sounds of warm crackling fires and melting snowflakes might just have them drifting off to slumberland.

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About Amy Blanchard

Amy Blanchard
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Amy’s favourite Tonie is Matilda. From a very young age, she was utterly obsessed with Matilda. She watched and read it so many times that she practically had the whole script memorised. As she grew older, she remained just like Matilda, a bookworm, a trickster, and a dreamer!