Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!

I know what your thinking... Gee golly-gosh she is a little bit late or maybe waaaaaaay to early to be thinking about Christmas! I found these little beauties and realised I hadn't posted them on the blog and they were too good not to share (if I do say so myself).

Christmas Elves!

These are a great activity for writing! Students had to name their Elf and write about its job as Santa's helper. All you need to make it is:  

1 speech bubble template (lines give extra structure)

1 Christmas tree shape for hat (glitter, sequence and a pipe cleaner to decorate)  

1 Elf almost like a pudding with legs.

(See photos below).

Paper Bag Reindeer.

What you will need:

Paper bag, painted brown, facial parts templates and children to trace their hands on brown paper for antlers. Cover with glitter for a little extra Christmas sparkle. 

Snowman

Snowman template found on google, goggle eyes, cotton wool for snow, ribbon around the neck for the scarf and pom-poms for buttons.

Santa Stuck In The Chimney

Students were learning the song "When Santa Got Stuck In The Chimney" so I was inspired to make this. I drew the chimney, rectangle shape and added some messy bricks, then drew two separate legs with boots at the bottom. Children coloured both and then attached them. After, they put cotton wool on the top of the chimney and on the top of Santa's boots.   

Christmas Cards 

We made these little cards and they turned out nicely! Draw a wavy/squiggly line on the page and add little light globe holders to the line. Children then use their fingers in coloured paint to create christmas lights!

Christmas Bear 

I drew the template for a bear on A3 and had the children stick red and green paper that I had cut up on the bear. It gave it a nice, bright texture. 

Letters From Santa

Children wrote letters to Santa, which I "sent" to the North Pole. The children's eyes lit up when they returned to the classroom frozen solid in ice. Easy to do, just stick the letters from Santa in a zip lock bag, fill a container with water and FREEZE! I then had to break the ice all the way from the North Pole in front of them to get Santa's reply letters out (which they thought was the most exciting thing in the world)!