Catching up on some of our Christmas activities...

I am still not used to blogging, hence the reason I have not posted in 2 months! 

Although it is February, I am posting about a few Christmas activities my students had fun with this past Christmas.

 

Our elf, Snowflake, was with us throughout the month of December.  It was fun seeing him in a different spot everyday.  I must say, Snowflake was a good elf...pretty much!

The day Snowflake was delivered to our classroom.



Here is a picture of our classroom door....

 

found this idea here

 

The bottom is green mountains with more angels.  The angels were the students' hand prints and the angel bodies were made from gold tissue paper.  The heads were circles cut from cardstock and the students added the faces and halos (I had this word spelled 'haloes' but spell correct corrected me.).  All of this was glued on blue construction paper then cut out.  I think they turned out great!

 

Here is my classroom Christmas bulletin board...

 

 

Just thought it up during class one day.  The border is made from manger scenes the students made.

 

Here is a close up picture of the student manger scene...

 

 

The students loved building 'Christmas trees' with green plastic cups!

 

Very proud they are!

I also had the students make Christmas trees out of strips of paper with scrunched up tissue paper as ornaments.



 Great for fine motor skills!

 

We made applesauce & cinnamon ornaments. 

Our classroom smelled sooooo good!

Click here for the recipe. 

These do not have to be expensive as you can usually find cinnamon at the dollar store. 

I even found $1 cinnamon at the local party store right by my house!

 

 

We used a straw to put a hole in each ornament and then added ribbon when they were dry.  It took a few days for them to completely dry.

 

Last project to share is the Moosteltoes the students made. 

 I read the book Mooseltoe to the class then they created their own Mooseltoe.  Scholastic had this book for $1 during its Christmas brochure, but you can find it on amazon.com anytime.

     

Click here to search for Mooseltoe on amazon.

 

Here is one student's Mooseltoe.

I found a *freebie* template from Smedley's Smorgasbord of Kindergarten blog here.

 

Although there was a lot more going on in our classroom, this is all I am sharing today since I am trying to get up-to-date with blogging.

 

Thanks for reading!

Happy Teaching!