Bunny Milk Gallon Project

Here's a fun project! We made bunnies from empty milk gallon containers. First cut the top off, but leave the handle intact. Children created their bunnies with construction paper. You could also add a popsicle stick to the back of the bunnies ears to reinforce them to stay up. No, picture of the back, but children added a tail with some cotton balls. They also look really cute if you cover the whole container with cotton balls, if your kids have the patience! ;)

Letter Gg, Green Grass

Here's a project we did for the letter G. Green Grass. We glued on the grass and then I had some easter foam stickers, the children also used.

St. Patricks Day Game

Fill a green hat with shamrock shapes. On each shamrock shape write something for the child to do or answer. IE: What's your fav. color?, Say the ABC's, Find something green, Count to 10, etc... Child picks a shamrock from the hat and does what the shamrock says.

Saint Patricks Day Crafts

Cut out a clover or shamrock design, children glue on different colors of green paper. Then we painted over with gold glitter paint.

We are so lucky display--Crayon resist. Children draw what they are lucky for with crayons, then painted over their drawings with watercolors.

Here's one of my favorites, Loopy Leprachaun! Cut out a semicircle( half circle), for the face, then a green hat, orange strips for the beard about 10 inches. Curl the ends with a pencil or crayon.

Here's some other cute ideas from Ramblings of a Crazy Woman blog. My class made the Shamrock hanger, and I decorated the door way like a rainbow. The sparkly rainbow is great too!

Dec. 9/11

Dec. 9

Read: If you Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff



Children will make sponge ornaments.




























Materials: sponges, cookie cutters, glitter glue, beads, pom-poms and or other trims, scissors, yarn for hanging, hole punch


Directions:

Prepare sponges by soaking them for a few minutes in plain warm water. Let sponges dry before making ornaments. Using a felt tip pen, trace shape around cookie cutter. Cut out drawn shape. Use glitter glue to decorate, add various trims. Punch a hole on top of ornament with a hole puncher. Add yarn to hang. (prepare for project two days before activity)






Read: The Story of Baby Jesus--Alice in Bibleland Series





Children will make a nativity mobile




































J is for Jesus.





Talk about the candy cane and it's symbolism.

Recite Poem:


Look at this Candy Cane,

What do you see?

Stripes that are red,

Like blood shed for me.



White is for my Savior

Who’s sinless and pure!

“J” is for Jesus my Lord, that’s for sure!


Turn it around

And a staff you will see

Jesus my Shepard

Was born for me!



Children will take home a candy cane!


Candy cane mini book





Dec. 11

Children will make snowmen ornaments for parents as a gift!

Materials: Ball ornaments, white paint, various colors of paint markers

Directions:

Paint childrens fingers white. Press each finger onto ball ornament. Allow paint to dry. Use a paint marker to make hats, faces, and scarves. Attach a tag with poem:

These aren't just any snowmen

As anyone can see.

I made them with my fingers

Which are a part of me.

Now each year when you trim the tree

You'll look back and recall Christmas of 2008

When my fingers were just this small!

Read: The Christmas Star by Marcus Pfister

Children will make a Star Tree ornament

Materials: Paper plate, star cutout, glitter glue, crayons

Directions: Have children color plate, and decorate star. When child is done, cut plate into spiral shape, attach star to the top.

Activity Centers:

Tic Tac Toe--using christmas theme erasers

Children will play with playdough using christmas cookie cutters

Dec. 2

Letters of the month: Jj and Ss

Shape of the month: Star

Introduce symbols of Christmas

Have children make symbols of Christmas Book

Children will make a wreath, from a paper plate. Reinforce meaning of the wreath.

The wreath is a circle with out any end, just as Gods love for us.

Materials: Paper plates, scissors, yarn, green and red tissue paper

Cut out center of plate, children decorate outside of plate with green tissue paper. Red tissue paper to represent berries, add yarn bow. Yarn for hanging.

Sing chorus from Jingle Bells--for X-mas program
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Dec. 4
Read, Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood

Children will make pinecone christmas trees.

Materials: Pinecones, green paint, embellishments

Paint pinecones green, children embellish with pompoms, beads, rick rack, glitter, etc....

Reinforce symbol of tree. The tree points to heaven and reminds us God is eternal.