Christmas

Santa Triangle

Skill: Shape recognition, geometry, and small motor 

 What a fun idea! You can do this craft and conquer three different skills:  shape recognition, math (geometry), and with gluing and cutting, small motor skills.

To make Santa, you will first need to cut a large triangle from red paper.  You will need a pink circle for his head.  (You can either cut eyes and nose from paper or draw them later.)  Finally, cut black boots, belt, and a buckle.

Start off by gluing his head and boots into place.  Then comes the fun part.  Pull apart cotton balls and stick the white, fluffy pieces on to form the fur trim of his hat, his beard and fur trim on his boots.  Stick on his paper belt and buckle, add eyes and nose and Santa is ready to decorate a door!

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Snow Globe

Skill: Science... using your senses taste (before glitter), smell, touch, and see. 

Learning to use the things around the house to make a fun craft/science experiment.  What happen when you mix corn syrup and glitter.  Learn about the texture of the syrup and how it feels, taste (before glitter), what it looks like.

Snow Globe Craft

Making a snow globe with your child is a great winter craft! This is a simple snow craft that our preschooler absolutely loved making and playing with afterwards. All you need is some corn syrup, a bottle and glitter – and we promise it’s not as messy as you think it is! Try this great preschool winter craft with your kids today. 

What you'll need: Materials Small clear bottle or jar (baby food jars or spice jars work well – they must have a lid) Corn syrup Glitter Popsicle stick or child-safe butter knife Water *Optional: hot glue gun/hot glue – adults only How to make your Snow Globe Craft Place the jar on a paper plate or some newspaper. Fill the jar 1/3 of the way full with corn syrup. The corn syrup helps the glitter stay in suspension longer. You will use water to fill the rest of the jar. At this point, only add about half of the water you need and then mix the corn syrup and water together until the corn syrup dissolves most of the way. If you fill the jar the whole way full and then have a preschooler stir it, we guarantee a mess! Once the corn syrup is dissolved, top the jar off with water. Sprinkle in some glitter. Use as many colors as you’d like, and as much as you’d like. Put the lid on the jar and shake to watch the snow swirl. ** Here is the optional part. If you’d like, you can hot glue the lid onto the jar. Our daughter is good about not opening things and we don’t expect this craft to last forever, so we did not do this step. If you do glue the lid on, make sure to use hot glue and not something that will wash away in water (like Elmer’s glue) or the water in your globe may turn cloudy as it eats the glue.

Christmas

Footprint and Handprint sleigh

Skill: Sensory using your students foot, hand, and fingers

Use green, red, and brown tempra paint. Use a large piece of paper to be able to fit their foot and handprints onto paper.

Footprints and Handprints sleigh

I found this on Pinterest and thought this would be perfect for Christmas parties or for a craft project with kids during Christmas break. It's made with tempra paint, their handprints, and footprint – How Precious! Footprint and handprint Santa