Christmas
Fun Crafts and Activities
Snowman
(Puffy Paint)
I
saw this idea on a teacher's blog and thought the kids would love
playing with puffy paint. We've never done it before and it turned
out to be a great success. The steps were easy and the kids get to
experiment with something different. We use paint quite a lot in our
art projects, but the children were excited to use the puffy paint.
The only materials we needed were shaving cream and white glue. We
had to mix them together and the ratio is 1:1. The children used
paintbrushes to paint their snowman craft and all of them look
different. You really need to pile on the mixture to see the puffy
effect. I let it dry for a day and I let the kids cut out hats,
noses, scarves from colored paper and I saw some really creative
work!
Christmas
Card
At
first, I wanted to make a rocking Christmas tree and then I thought
this would also be a good Christmas card. :) I cut out the Christmas
tree shapes and gave the children some colored circle stickers and
they could decorate their tree with the stickers and put a glittery
star on top. The I had then color a paper plate on both sides and
folded it in half and attached the Christmas trees on top. At last, I
added “Merry X'mas” inside the paper plate.
Funny Christmas Songs for kids
I found some funny Christmas songs and these are quite popular amongst my kids :)
Santa
Claus Mask
This
is a Santa Mask we made in class. It was very simple and easy to
make. I cut out a hole from the paper plate, then I gave them some
cotton for the beard. I asked the kids to roll them into little
cotton balls before they glue them on. After they glue on the beard
around the paper plate, the last thing they needed to do was to glue
on the Santa's hat and a little cotton ball on top! Voila! The
children were happy about what they made! :)
Reindeer
Craft
I
cut out triangle and asked the kids to fold it to form Rudolph's
head. Then I asked them to use the red circle stickers as the nose
and then they also glued on the googly eyes. The next step is using
the Q-tips and white paint to add snow onto the page. The last step
is for the kids to put their handprints on the head as the antlers!
:)
Rudolph
Relay
I
cut out a lot of red circles as Rudolf's nose, and I used some
Vaseline to put on kids' noses (so the red circles would stay on
their noses). Then I asked the children to have a relay with the red
circles on their noses! They looked great and they found it really
funny!
Christmas Decoration in the Classroom ( making a 3D SNOWMAN with plastic cups)
I saw this idea online and wanted to try it for my class! I stapled the plastic cups together to form 2 half balls. Then added the eyes, nose, hat, scarf and mouth for my snowman!
Making
an angel with handprints and footprints
This
project took 2 days and was a little bit messy, but I think it was
worth the time and effort. We made little angels for Christmas and
painted the kids' feet to make the body of the angel and their
handprints as the wings. Then I took pictures of their faces and I
asked them to pretend like they're singing. We got some funny facial
expressions from this class! Then I printed out their pictures and
pasted them onto their angel bodies! Now we have angels who are
singing around the snowman!
A
beautiful 3D Christmas tree that is very easy to make!
I
cut out a shape on a piece of white construction paper to make a
cone. Then we used the soft pastel
to color the tree. I asked the kids to choose any 3 colors they wish
to mix together. At first, I was going to tell them to use only
green because Christmas trees are supposed to be green, but then I
thought they should be able to choose whatever colors they like. In
the end, I was right! They turned out great and we got some
interesting colors and they all looked great!
Making
Candy Cane with Aluminum Foil
This is very easy to make
and I did it with my K1 class (3~4yrs). I gave everyone some aluminum
foil and asked them to roll it into a stick, then twist the top to
make a candy cane. The we decorated it with colored stickers. I put
them up on our Christmas tree in the classroom!
Sensory
Play (Making a snowman indoor)
This is a fun activity for
kids, even for myself. :) I saw this recipe online and we only
needed shaving cream and corn starch, but I didn't have corn starch
at the time, so I used potato starch instead and it works just as
well. I mixed potato starch and shaving cream together and the ratio
is about 1:1. After mixing them together, the texture feels like
snow! The kids had a lot of fun making snowmen! :)
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