Winter Waltz - Transform your room into an imaginary frozen pond. Move back all the furniture and objects to form a clear space in the middle of the room. Have the children remove their shoes and "skate" on the pond. You can play "The Skater's Waltz" by Emil Waldteufel, or other holiday tunes. You can put on a fanto ...
Reindeer Food - This is a fun activity to do on Christmas Eve. Mix all ingredients and scoop into plastic bags. Then, on Christmas Eve, go outside with your children and sprinkle the Reindeer Food on your lawn so that they can find your house (the sugar crystals sparkle in the night), and they can have a snack too!
Christmas Mice - Melt choc. and oil in microwave, drain cherries and dip as far as possible into the chocolate, leaving the stem as the tail. Stick an unwrapped candy kiss onto the opposite end for the head, using icing or chocolate to "glue" on. When hard, add red or brown frosting eyes and a little red nose. Usea ...
Magic Reindeer Food - This is an fun activity to make and do on Christmas Eve. It's also a fun and easy craft for groups of children to make. Just put these items in a plasic zip-lock baggie. Then staple the tag to the top of the baggie! You can add a little glitter to the tag for added sparkle!
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Corn Cob Craft - cut the yellow construction paper into corn cob shapes. Cut the green construction paper into husks. Put the popped popcorn into a brown paper bag and add tempera powder paint to color them. Do quite a few different Fall colors. Have the children glue the corn onto the yellow paper and then add the ...
Little Stars - Cut two stars out of different colored construction paper, one larger than the other. In the smaller star, cut a hole in the center large enough for the face of the photo to show through. Trim the photo to the correct size and glue the smaller star on top of the photo, then glue the smaller star on ...
Christmas Time is a great time to teach children about our 5 senses. Tell your class you can see, smell, hear, feel and eat this project when yoy are finished and they love talking about it ...
Cut a large Christmas tree out of the green cardstock and glue it onto the background sheet of paper (whatever color), cover with laminate or contact paper. Put stamps or stickers on anothe ...
To start off, you can paint the plywood square base if desired. Assemble alphabet blocks on top of plywood with corners of blocks touching to form a circle. Glue in place. Assemble another ...
Mix equal amounts of applesauce and cinnamon (for instance 1 cup of each) until you have a dough. Roll out on waxed paper and cut into shapes using Christmas or themed cookie cutters. Poke ...
Tie each bell to a length of twine. Then, secure each one along the top of the fence. This works best on a chain link fence. What a great Holiday idea for a playground or school fence!
Draw a snow picture using a Q-tip dipped in bleach. The picture magically appears. It is amazing to the eye as the picture shows up! Be careful not to spill any bleach on your clothes. Yo ...
Glue the styrofoam cup at the top of the bowling pin (to build up for a head). Cover the whole bowling pin and cup with cotton balls. Make a hat using the papertowel roll (about 1 1/2 inch ...
Put the spices in the center of the fabric. Gather up the corners and wrap a rubber band tightly around the bundle. Tie with a ribbon to hide rubber band and decorate with evergreen. You ...
Glue candy canes(2) together into a heart shape. Make a ribbon loop & glue to back at junction of heart shape. Glue jingle bell onto bottom of heart point & glue bow on top of heart point. ...
The curve of the candy cane will the mouse's tail, so lay the candy cane on its side with the curve going to the right or left. Next, cut a rain drop shape out of felt-this is his body, app ...
