Freeze Melt! - This is a stop and go game. Before you play create a large sun design, and a large snowflake design. Discuss with the children that when the air is cold the water can freeze and turn to snow or ice, and that the sun's heat makes the air warm and makes things melt. Then demonstrate the game to them
Where is Santa? - Sung to the tune: Are you sleeping?
Where is Santa? Where is Santa? (hands behind back)
Here I am! Here I am! (arms out in front making a belly shape!)
Merry, Merry Christmas! Merry, Merry, Christmas!(keep arms up through the rest of the song!)
Ho! Ho! Ho!, Ho! Ho! Ho!
Santa Photo Craft - Cut out the face from the photograph. Cut out a hat and jacket. Draw on buttons. Add cotton balls to decorate.Submitted by Jennifer of Ramblings of a Crazy Woman
Christmas Morning Surprise - The night before christmas go outside with your children and "plant" the unwrapped mints in ground. Then, later that evening (or early the next morning) switch the mints with candy canes sticking out of the ground. In the morning the kids will find that the mints grew into candy canes, Surprise!
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Holiday Bowling - Take ten toilet tissue tubes and attach tag board trees,stars, easter eggs, bunnies, pumpkins,hearts (or any related Holiday shape). Draw a triangle shape on the floor and place the tubes in a 4-3-2-1 triangle. Have the child roll a soft ball and bowl. Get the children counting by setting up tubes, and ...
Santa Magnet - Take one coffee filter and fold in half, then fold again in the shape of a triangle. Fringe the bottom of the coffee filter with your scissors. This will be santa's head and beard. Glue the folded part down. Cut red felt into a long triangle and glue to the point of triangle. This is Santa's Hat. ...
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 ...
