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
