Write all about
it!
*Draw Santa's
sleigh and reindeer.
*What do you think the North Pole looks like?
*At Christmas, I can
smell/hear/see/taste/feel......
*All I want for Christmas is...
*If you worked for Santa, what would your job be?
*What would is the best gift you could give
someone?
*What would be the best present to give your Mom
or Dad?
* The presents were all wrapped in pretty bows,
Zachary decided to....
*I love to give to others because....
*T'was the night before Christmas and .....
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Great Books and Activities To Match
Some Math Ideas
Graphing Ideas:
Where we will spend the holiday, Our favorite
kind of Christmas Cookie, Our favorite Christmas
Song...
The dollar
shops often sell the seasonal metallic confetti
that you place inside greeting cards. Use
it in your class for a fun math readiness
activity. Tape a few short rows of scotch
tape (sticky side up) onto a small
square of paper. The children then place
the seasonal shapes onto the tape and form
patterns. They "read" them to the class
when they are
done..."Snowflake, snowflake, holly,
snowflake, snowflake, holly..." Well,
you get the idea!
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BBoard ideas
Stocking
Stuffers
Cover a board
with a white background and place the title
Stocking Stuffers on the board. Make a large
stocking out of poster board. Staple it to the
board. Make sure the top is opened so that it can
be stuffed. Have each child write his or her name
on a strip of paper. Ask them to cut out pictures
from magazines of things they would like for
Christmas and glue them to their strip. Now stuff
the stocking!
Class Choir
Have each
student draw his or her portrait on a paper
plate. ask them to draw the mouth in a singing
position. Attach a red bow to the chin of each
face. Arrange the faces on the class bulletin
board with the title, "Our Class
Choir".
Dear Santa
In the center
of your bulletin board put a picture of a
reindeer or Santa. Give each of your children a
piece of paper folded in half. Have them write or
draw the list of gifts they want Santa to bring
them.
Here are some
pictures of some bulletin board art projects!
  
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My Favorite Songs, Poems, and Fingerplays
SHY SANTA
Isn't it the strangest thing,
That Santa is so
shy?
(hide face with hands)
We can never, never catch him, (make fingers run)
No matter how we try.
It isn't any use to
watch, (hold hand to eyes
and look)
Because my parents said,
"Santa Claus will only come
When children are in
bed!" (shake finger)
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10 LITTLE
ELVES
10 Little Elves
Jumping in the slay
One falls off and.... slides away
Santa calls the reindeer and the reindeer say
"No more jumping in Santa's slay
9 little elves
jumping in the slay
etc.
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Click here to
see many links to poems, songs, stories, and
fingerplays
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Christmas
Presents
See the many presents by the
Christmas tree,
(Point to eye; sweep hand in wide half-circle;
form tree with hands.)
Some for you,
(Point to others.)
And some for me.
(Point to self.)
Long ones,
(Spread hands wide apart.)
Tall ones,
(Hold hand high above head.)
Short ones, too.
(Hold hands close together.)
And here is a round one
(Make circle with arms.)
Wrapped in blue.
Isn't it fun to look and see
(Point to eyes.)
All the presents by the
Christmas tree?
(Sweep hand in wide half-circle; form tree with
hands.)
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Make It Feel
Like Christmas is Your Classroom with one of
these CD's
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Try a video
that your class can sing and dance with!
Try one of
these poem books! Click to learn more!
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Center Ideas
Christmas Card
Express-Old and new Christmas cards,
stamps(old/new),pens, pencils, markers, stickers,
envelopes, scale, mailbag, mailbox (these last
two can be handmade). Let children make and send
christmas cards.
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Program
Santa cut-outs with numbers. You could program
them with counts. Count by 2's, 5's, 10's. Place
the cutouts in a ziploc baggie. This becomes a
center that the student can take back to their
desk.
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Holiday Part Ideas
Holiday Party
Ideas
 
Each year I have a holiday party for the kids. I
set up 4-6 centers with activities. There is one
- two adults at each center. I break the students
into groups and they rotate through the centers
as I tell them to. My husband even comes to run a
center. I always have 2 craft centers, 2 game
center, & a food center. I also put together
holiday packets (using fun worksheets). The
students bring these to the centers - so if they
finish before the center time is up, they have
something to work on.
Above is a great craft for a center! They
can wear these in Jan. too!
HOLIDAY COLOR YOUR OWN PADDLEBALL GAME
They
love these!
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I bought one of these for under 8
dollars. This was one of the game centers
the students went to. I made a score
board. They each stood in line and hit
four balls and then added up their scores
to find the winner. They enjoyed this!
Oriental Trading also has a snowman felt
dart board that would work great at a
game center.
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A Class Book Idea
Santa Helper
Class Book
Make a title
page; "If we were Santa's Helpers" You
may place a graphic of Santa on the cover.
Give each
student a page. Leave a space at the top for the
student to illustrate their paragraph. The
paragraph may read:
I would like to
be Santa's Helper.
We would fly
to_________________.
I would wave to
_________________as I flew in Santa's sleigh.
The best part
about being a helper to Santa would be
________________________________________.
The students
fill in the blanks and illustrate. Bind all the
pages together to make a class book!
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Here
is my blacklines for the book. You could purchase
these or make your own. Click to learn
more!
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Individual Books
Here is a book
that the student colors to match the words in the
book. It is a seven page book called See Santa.
You could make one of these for each student in
your class. The students color the part of Santa
after they read the sentences. After they finish
this, it becomes and easy to read book. They can
use the pictures to decode the words. The pages
in this book read:
See Santa's red
hat.
See Santa's pink cheeks.
See Santa's black boots.
See Santa's green mittens.
See Santa's blue eyes.
See Santa's white beard.
See Santa's red suit.
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Here
is my blacklines for the book, I have colored
some of the pages,. You could purchase these or
make your own. Click to learn
more!
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Make a
book that each student in your class can
illustrate to match the words. It is fun to make
these type of books using the Brown Bear Pattern.
One book I like to make with my class is called,
Little Boy, Little Boy What Do You See? I place a
graphic of a tree on the front cover. The words
in the book read:
I see a green
tree looking at me. (student would draw a green
tree)
Follow this pattern using other objects.
For grade k-1 -
use this book as a group activity. When the book
is finished they have a book that is easy to read
at home.
For grades 2-3
- use this book as a comprehension tool. The
student reads it independently and illustrates
after reading.
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PICTURE COMING
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Free Christmas Activity Sheets
One thing I like to do with fun activity sheets is to
print a few of each and place them in a box with the
title, "FUN TIME SHEETS". I allow my students
to take a sheet during indoor recess or free time. This
is also great for early finishers. They enjoy this
special activity!
Activity Books From Amazon.com
Click on a title to learn more!
Some Helpful
Links
My Faves!
Some Craft Or
Parent Gift Ideas!
I always pick
two craft sets from this site. They come in bulk
and are at a great price. You could not buy all
the material to make their crafts at a lower
price. Click the picture above to explore this
great site! I allow my students to choose from
the crafts. They choose one to make for their
parent for a holiday gift. I have a parent helper
work on these with the kids. The helper takes two
- four students a day until they are done. We
also make our own gift wrap for the crafts and a
pop-up card. They turn out great and the parents
always love them Here are a few pics of some of
the crafts I have done. Click on the graphic
above to explore all the goodies on Oriental
Trading.
You get 12 in a set for under 5 dollars.
We made these and I took a picture of
each student. Then, they placed their
picture in the frame.
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MAGNETIC SANTA NOTE CLIP CRAFT KIT
We
made these and the students wrote a
letter to their parents and the santa
note clip held the letter.
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Above are only
two of a 100's of holiday craft projects on the
site!
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Teacher Resources
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