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Gingerbread Friends Garland

 

How to Draw a Reindeer

 

 

Download the pdf

 These gingerbread friends hold hands to create a delicious holiday decoration for your mantel.

 

Gingerbread recipe

 

 
Confetti Christmas Tree

tag board or heavy green paper
crayons or oil pastels (optional)
scissors
pencil
hole punch
colored paper
glue

Draw or trace Christmas tree shape on tag board or other heavy green paper. Cut out. Make "ornaments" by using a hole punch to punch confetti shapes out of various colors of paper. (Shaped hole punches are nice for this project, but the plain old round variety works equally well.) Glue ornaments to tree. Use crayons or oil pastels to add additional decorations if desired.

 
Holiday Celebration The Holiday Zone

http://www.theholidayzone.com/
The Holiday Zone offers free holiday and seasonal educational resources for use in early childhood and elementary educational settings. Holiday and seasonal materials include learning games, whole language activities, writing prompts, songs, action rhymes, fingerplays, printable worksheets, printable and interactive puzzles, coloring pages, art and craft activities, educational game ideas, and children's literature recommendations. Themes include: Easter, Chusok, Hanukkah and Christmas.

Danish Woven Baskets northpole.net
Add another dimension to your Christmas tree with ornaments inspired by Denmark, and crafted by your children. These patterns and sets of instructions for Danish baskets require only shiny paper and glue. Younger children will need some help with this one.
Christmas Activities

Here's a nicely done collection of activities, coloring items, and other Christmas treats for elementary students. Lots of printable sheets to color, letting students make gift tags, cards, and the like.

Christmas time
http://holidays.kaboose.com/christmas/index.html
Website. Contains lots of Christmas activities to keep children amused with crafts, online games

Christmas Crackers Grade 1 to 6

Bring the spirit of a traditional British Christmas into your classroom with this easy-to-follow plan for creating Christmas crackers. No, they're not edible, but your students can fill them with tiny treats!

 

 

http://www.firststep.com.au/gday_down_under/
 Create your own cards to send to a friend by e-mail. Just follow the
 simple steps.

Christmas Recipes and Crafts From Around the World
 http://www2.worldbook.com/features/holidays/html/rec_cra.htm
 Liven the holiday with recipes and crafts from around the world.

Christmas Crafts
>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/
 These crafts projects use materials found around the house, like egg
 cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint and glue.

 

Crafts Ideas for Christmas
 http://www.kidsandcrafts.com/december.shtml
 These simple yet elegant projects are perfect for gift-giving around the
 holidays while creating lasting memories for you and your child.

Christmas In Australia Links
 http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au/christmas/christmas_main.htm
 Links to information about traditions, Christmas in Australia, decorations
 and crafts, stories and poems.

 

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