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pupsicola

The school where I work is finishing for Xmas on friday. The kids have their Xmas show to perform on 3 days. The teacher I work with doesn't believe in the kids just sitting watching disney dvds on the last day of term, which ive known happen in other schools. So I have been assigned the task of doing a creative morning and helping the kids make xmas decorations. Ive thought of doing chinese lanterns and getting them to design and make their own paper chains. Any other ideas guys. The kids are 7 going on 8

angelavdavis

How about:

1) designing a calendar (buy the 20p flip mini calendars to stick on the bottom of the picture).
2) Decorate a bauble - buy cheap plastic baubles and use glue pens and braid/glitter to decorate.
3)Make potato stamp gift tags - tags cut from coloured paper and stamped with poster paint
4) Make Christmassy pom poms using coloured wool and cardboard to hang on the tree.
5) Make Angel or snowmen paper garlands using crepe paper. Cut crepe paper rolls into 3 inch high pieces (cut while still rolled up) and then draw an angel, snowman or gingerbread man and cut with hands joining, unravel and decorate.
6) Make paper chains using coloured wrapping paper and glue sticks. Cut paper into chain links.
7) Decorate felt decorations. Provide children with different shapes (ginger bread men, christmas trees, robins, doves, reindeer, snowmen, baubles or stars and then decorate with glued on sequins, glitter and braid.
8) Snowflakes to decorate the windows.

kjmtidea

I was going to suggest snowflakes too but I love the calender idea

jackomdj

I like the bauble idea, especially if you get them to incorporate their name & the year so it can become one of the decorations that come out each year.

How about some stencils to do the outline of christmas things (tree, FC, angel, star) to go on the front of a card which they can then decorate (glitter, stickers, paint, colour) & write to their family.

Or some Xmas biscuits that they can decorate.

Or christmas hama beads, could do a design, make it in hama beads, glue it to some card with a postit pad or calendar in the middle (if you have them a magnet on the back to go on the fridge too!)

finally but probably not doable for Friday I saw a brilliant thing on tv a few days ago where they made a snowman using papiermache (sp?) with the top layer in white paper so they did not have to paint over 2 balloons. They popped the balloons, filled it with some sweets, joined them together. Then did snowman eyes, nose etc. It was then a pinata!
HTH

pupsicola

These idea are great thanks so much guys