Make your own dough and make
Christmas ornaments & then paint them
Get a large roll of craft or
butcher paper. Make sponge cut outs of stars,
ornaments, etc, & let the kids make their own
wrapping paper
On a white hand towel, use fabric
paint and do the kids hand prints. Write with fabric
paint "See, I DID wash my hands". You could do red &
green hand prints & make these little Christmas
towels to set out for guests.
Tie three bells together and make
a pretty bow on top.
Angel-Paint old fashioned clothes
pin white. Paint knob on top like a face. Cut out
wings & glue to back.
Glue star mint candies to lid of
jar. Fill jar with candies for parent gift.
Glue two perfectly shaped
triangles together to make a six pointed star. Cover
with macaroni, glitter or both.
Cover toilet paper roll with
colored paper. Add colored leaves around the
bottom & a flame to the top.
Cover a pine cone with glue &
glitter.
Make sweatshirts w/hand print
Christmas trees for the moms and for the dads ties
with hand prints
Cut out a candy cane shape & let
the children glue red & white pom-poms alternating
to give the appearance of a candy cane.
Trace & cut out the child s hand
on red or green felt. With fingers pointing down,
place a small heart also cut out of felt (diff
color) & write to Mom & Dad or whoever, Merry
Christmas Love the child's name & date.
Cut out a large Christmas tree for
each child (or one huge one for a wall mural) and
have the children glue on painted macaroni, Fruit
Loops, popped popcorn, and Cheerios as ornaments.
Make candy cane outlines on red
construction paper. Help each child make stripes
with white shoe polish (squeeze applicator). The
kids can cut out the candy canes shapes when dry.
Make a wall mural of a chimney.
Have children paint it. Staple together two paper
stockings (from construction paper). Decorate with
glitter, markers, and add cotton balls to top of
stocking for trim. Put a child's name on each
stocking. Hang them on the chimney.
Put a big picture of Santa and his
sack or sleigh on the bulletin board or wall. Have
the children cut out magazine pictures of toys to go
into the sack and paste onto the picture.
Children can string popcorn and
cranberries, using their own patterns. Young
children can string round cereal.
You can make white collages on
dark paper our of white lace, ribbon, styrofoam
packing peanuts, tissue paper, construction
paper...anything white.
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