Christmas!!

Christmas!

Christmas Crafts

Thumbprint Reindeer Ornaments

Paint thumb brown

Press painted thumb onto a small ball ornament

Let dry, add antlers and eyes with permanent marker

Use glue to make a nose and sprinkle red glitter to make Rudolph!

Craft Stick Sled Ornaments

Lay out 5 craft sticks side by side in the shape of a sled

Hot glue 2 more craft sticks across the laid-out craft sticks to create supports

For the slid runners, lay an craft stick on its thin edge so it rests on the supports. 

Hot glue it into place.  Repeat with the last craft stick

Decorate the sled

Attach a chenille stem to the sled for hanging

The bottom of the sled

Reindeer Cookies

Ingredients:  Nutter Butter Cookies, pretzels, chocolate chips red M&M's, frosting

Break pretzels to make the antlers

Use frosting to stick on the antlers, eyes and nose

Addie and the Reindeer Cookies for her 4K snack!

Beaded Wreath Ornaments

String green beads onto a red pipe cleaner - we used a sparkly red pipe cleaner!

Form into a circle and twist shut

Form a bow with the pipe cleaner ends

Hand and Foot Print Santa's Sleigh

Paint a foot with green paint

Press onto the top corner of a piece of white paper

Paint a hand brown and press on the paper 3 times.

Let dry and draw on the details!

Handprint Snowmen Ornament

Paint hand and press onto a colored glass ball

Let dry and draw on faces, hats and arms!

Pom-Pom Wreath

Glue pom-poms onto a circle shaped piece of tag board

Glue on a red bow.

Extra Large Gingerbread People!

I cut 2 gingerbread figures from large pieces of the brown, packing paper from my

Online Christmas Packages!

I then gave the 2 girls a bunch of supplies and let them go crazy! 

I actually think they were pretty tame with their decorating - but I did have to scrub my floor when they were finished. :)

Decorating!

Christmas Tree Math
Skills: math, addition, number writing, counting
I created a document with blank Christmas Trees and easy word problems. 
The word problems involved adding two different colors of balls to each tree and then writing the total on the line. 

Addie writing the total sum

Her completed Christmas Tree Math Sheet

Our Little Pine Tree

Decorate a foam tree with beads, sequins, gems . . .

Type and print the following poem:

Here’s our little pine tree,
Tall and straight
Let’s find the things
So we can decorate.
First we want to put
A star on top!

Then we must be careful
The balls don’t drop.

Hang on all the tinsel

Shiny and bright

Put on the canes

And hook them just right.

Finally put some presents

For you and for me.

And we'll be ready

With our Christmas tree.

Glue the completed tree and the printed poem to a piece of red construction paper

My Little Reindeer

Print a picture of your child

Cut around the picture and glue it to a piece of construction paper

Paint both hands brown and press them onto the paper to make antlers

Add glue to the nose and sprinkle with red glitter

Add bows and names to complete

Christmas Cutting Practice Sheets 

Skills:  cutting, pasting, matching

Cut the trees on the dotted lines

Match the trees and glue them to a piece of paper

Here is the link to the Christmas Theme Cut It Out Pack

 Cutting

Pasting and Matching

The Finished Product

 Candy Cane Rudolph

Cut a candy cane shape out of white paper

Cut red strips

Trace hands on brown construction paper - cut the hands out

Directions: Glue red stripes to the candy cane

Glue the candy cane to a piece of construction paper

Glue the hands/antlers to the candy cane

Glue on a googly eye and a glitter nose

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day and Flowers!

Mother's Day Crafts

Flower Finger Print Bookmarks

The poem:  To My Mom

This pretty flower that you see

was made for you by me.

My finger made the flower part,

showing love from all my heart.

Happy Mother's Day

2013

Press index finger into green paint and onto the book mark to make the stem of the flower

Press finger into pink paint and then onto the bookmark to make the petals for the flower

 

Thum-body loves me

Type the Thum-Body Loves You poem and print it off (the poem is below)

Press thumb on an ink pad or in paint and then onto the paper.

 

Mother's Day Button Flower Pots!

I bought a multi-color pack of flower pots from our local Dollar Store

The kids used buttons to make flowers on their pots to give to for Mother's Day

We even planted flowers - from seed!

 

Sponge Painted Flowers

 Cut out different colored circles from construction paper and green stems from construction paper

Glue the circles and stems onto 11 x 13 white paper.

Dip rectangular shaped sponges into paint and press onto the paper to make flowers.

 

Thumbprint Hyacinth

Cut green leaves for the stem/leaves of the flower

Glue the leaves to a piece of white paper

Use a green marker to draw the stem of the flower

Press thumb into purple paint and press onto both sides of the stem to make the hyacinth

 

Tissue Paper Flowers

Cut tissue paper into squares

Accordion fold each piece of tissue paper

Stack the pieces  and wrap a green pipe cleaner around the stack to secure them into place - The pipe cleaner will also be the stem

Fan out the pieces to make the flower

Finger print flowers

Cut a flower shape out of colored construction paper - you will need two per child

Press a finger into paint (any color) and press the finger on the petals and in the middle

When dry, tape a green pipe cleaner to the backside of one of the flowers

Glue the other flower on top, so you have two sides and the pipe cleaner is secure

 

Flower Learning Activities

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 

I typed the following:  _______, _______ (insert name two times) how does your garden grow?

I also type and printed off the number's 1-5 along with a sheet full of flowers that I then cut out

Addie glued each  number an 11 x 13 piece of construction paper

She glued the corresponding number of flowers underneath each number (she also colored each flower - pink of course!)

 

 

Flower Petal Count

 

Cut out 4 construction paper circles and multiple petals

Roll a dice.  Count the number on the dice and write it on a circle. 

Glue on the corresponding number of petals to make a flower.  Glue the completed flower to the paper!

 Beginning Sound Flower Pots!

Cut out 5 flower pots from brown construction paper.  Cut out 5 green stems and 5 flowers from different colored construction paper.
Print off different picture's - 2 for each beginning sound.  I did Q - queen and quilt, W - watch and whale, R -  reindeer and robot, H - house and helicopter, Y - yo-yo and yogurt
Assemble the pots and flowers and glue them to construction paper.
Find a pair of matching beginning sound pictures and glue teach picture to a flower pot.  Write the correct beginning letter sound on the flower.  Repeat until all of the flower pots are completed!