Towards the end of November, we had an all day set-up of department decorating crafts. The concept was similar to come&go crafts, but instead of taking your craft home, you'd leave it with us to hang up in the room!
There were 4 different crafts to do: Ornament coloring (as seen pictured above), a paper chain, snowflake decorating and Christmas tree ornament crafts from Oriental Trading. Here's a quick breakdown of what we had...
Exactly what you think it'd be.
Beforehand, I had drawn and cut out ornaments from poster board. All we did for this craft was put them out on the table and provide crayons for kids to color them.
Once completed, ornaments received a string of yarn and they were hung on the end caps of our non-fiction shelves!
(I did google different ornament shapes though so they weren't all the same)
.... There's probably a better way to describe it than that ↑
In retrospect, this is very similar to the craft listed above, but for this one we pulled out stickers. And sequins. So many sequins.
This activity got the most attention. We had bought equal amounts of the different shapes from Hobby Lobby and the snowflakes were by far the most popular option.
Once completed, these were hung on our fiction shelves.
Tree Ornaments
The past few years, instead of decorating the tree with our YS ornaments, we've let the kids decorate it themselves.
A good bit of the above craft decorated our tree too.
Little story: This year we bought several different sets of foam ornaments from Oriental Trading, at different times throughout the year. When we pulled them out for our craft day we realized that all our different sets we had bought were red, white & blue. No idea how that happened, but our tree was very patriotic.
Can you see the paper chain behind Mr. Grinch? Yea? That's the only picture of this activity I have!!
For the paper chain, our question was "What is your favorite thing about the holiday season?" (something along those lines...)
Participants wrote their answers on the slip of paper to make a link for our chain.
Paper chains are the best! Easy set-up, easy up-keep and plus, they really brighten up a room.
Christmas Color By Number Worksheet
This was inspired by several other color-by-number worksheets I found by could not enlarge enough without getting blurry. It's either a hidden picture of Santa Clause or a reindeer face - it's been a good minute since I made this worksheet, so I don't quite remember! (Let me know in the comments what the picture is of π)
Either way though, feel free to use this. Here's a PDF file κκκ It'll need to be printed front an back if possible. Christmas Color By Number/ Math Sheet
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