A piece of brown construction paper (for the tree trunk)
A piece of yellow construction paper (for the star)
A large piece of brown paper (or use another color)
Pencil
Scissors
Glue
Optional: Glitter, glitter glue, or paper ornaments to glue on the tree
Trace the child's hand on a piece of green construction paper. Cut out the hand print. Fold the wrist over. Make a lot of paper paper hands (the number you'll need depends on the size of your tree). If this is a class project, you may want to put each child's name on his or her hand print. A nice touch, suggested by Peter Hesselmann, is to have each child write a Christmas wish for themselves on one paper hand, and a Christmas wish for the world on the other. Peter also did not tell his students why they were making the hands; he put the tree up, which surprised and delighted them. Peter also had the teachers and staff each write a wish for the world on a circular piece of construction paper - these were used for baubles on the tree.
Draw a tree shape on a large piece of paper.
Cut out a small rectangle of dark brown paper (this will be the tree trunk). Glue the rectangle below the tree.
Glue the hand prints together in a tree shape, gluing the folded part of the wrist to the background. Start at the bottom of the tree. Starting with the second row, make the fingers overlap the next hand a little bit.
Cut out a yellow star for the top of the tree. Glue it on the tree. Write a Christmas message around the tree.
Optional: Decorate your tree with glitter, glitter glue, or paper ornaments. You can also make the tree on a triangle shape (so there is no background showing).
Stiff paper (like card stock, oaktag or thin cardboard) or styrofoam meat trays
Scissors
Crayons or markers (optional)
Two paper stars are needed to make one 3-dimensional star. Either draw two identical stars on a piece of stiff paper or print out the
Decorate the two stars (if you like) on both sides, then cut them out
Make one slit in each star. On one star, the slit goes from an inner corner to the center point of the star; on the other star, the slit goes from an outer corner to the center point.
Slip the two stars together through the slits you just cut. For stability, you may have to tape the stars a bit where they meet at the slits.
You now have a great three-dimensional star decoration that stands by itself on a table
a piece of paper (red construction paper works well)
scissors
a glue stick
cotton balls or polyester filling
markers or crayons
a hole punch
Fold a piece of paper in half. Write the letters "A", "B", and "C" on it as shown in the picture. "B" is at the mid-point of the folded paper.
Fold corner "A" to point "B". Mark this new-formed corner "D."
Fold corner "C" over the paper edge running from "B" to "D." Fold along the dotted line.
Cut the paper along the dotted line.
Unfold the star. Decorate the star with markers, giving Santa his eyes, nose, face, and boots. Glue on cotton fluff to look like Santa's beard and his coat and hat trim. Punch a hole in the top for hanging.
For the Shooting Star Christmas Tree Ornaments you will need:
A small piece of thick paper, felt, or other flexible, easy-to-cut material - one or two colors
Scissors
Pencil
Reinforcements (optional)
Glitter (optional)
Markers (optional)
Glue
Cut a circle from the paper, felt or other material. A good circle template is a coffee mug.
Starting at the edge, cut a spiral going to the center of the circle. Decorate with glitter or markers.
Cut a small star, about 1 or 2 inches wide. Make a tiny hole in the star. The ornament will hang from this hole, so you might want to use reinforcements (these are doughnut-shaped pieces of plastic used to reinforce the holes in notebook paper and are available at stationery stores). Decorate the star with glitter or markers
[size=+1]This cute reindeer is made from your child's handprints and footprint, cut out of construction paper. It makes a cute Christmas decoration.
Supplies:
Brown and tan (or orange) construction paper
Pencil
Scissors
Glue
Googly eyes (optional)
Trace around the child's foot using brown construction paper. This will be the reindeer's head.
Trace around the child's hands using tan construction paper. These 2 pieces will be the reindeer's antlers.
Glue the handprint "antlers" to the top of the reindeer. Add a bright red paper nose, a paper (or drawn) mouth, and googly eyes (or paper eyes) to the reindeer's head.
You can now decorate your house for Christmas with these cute reindeers. Don't forget to put the child's name and age on the back of the reindeer.
Make an adorable wreath from your child's handprints. Supplies needed:
A lot of green construction paper A piece of red construction paper or a red ribbon Pencil Scissors Glue Optional: Glitter or glitter glue
Trace the child's hand on a piece of green construction paper.
Cut out the hand print. Make about 10 paper hands for each wreath. Glue the hand prints together in a wreath shape, with the wrists overlapping a little bit.
Glue on a red ribbon bow (or make one from red construction paper).
Optional: Decorate your wreath with glitter or glitter glue
A jollylittle snowman
Had a carrot nose,
Along came a rabbit
And what do you suppose?
That hungry little bunny,
Looking for his lunch,
Ate the snowman's carrot nose...
Nibble, nibble, CRUNCH!
Ring the Bells
Sung to: "Row, row, row your boat" Ring, ring, ring the bells,
Ring them loud and clear,
To say to people everywhere,
That Christmas time is here.
I'm a Little Santa
Sung to: "I'm a Little Teapot" I'm alittle Santa short and fat,
Here is my beard and here is my sack,
On Christmas Eve I hop in my sleigh,
With a "Ho ho ho" I'm on my way.
Where Is Santa
Sung to: "Where is Thumbkin"
Where is Santa? Where is Santa?
Here I am! Here I am!
Merry, merry Christmas
Merry, merry Christmas
Ho Ho Ho! Ho Ho Ho!
I know someone you don't know,Santa, Santa
I know someone you don't know, Santa, Santa Clause
Santa, Santa Clause, Santa, Santa Clause
I know someone you don't know, Santa, Santa Clause.
(one little two little indians)
One little, two little,
Three little snowmen.
Four little, five little,
Six little snowmen.
Seven little, eight little,
Nine little snowmen.
Ten little snowmen bright.
Supplies needed:
Draw a large stocking on thick brown paper (or brown felt).
Cut out two copies of this stocking.
Glue the two stockings together around the edges (make sure you don't put any glue along the top opening).
Punch holes around the edges of the stocking.
Weave yarn in and out of the holes. Leave a loop of yarn at one end, and tie it in a knot.
Decorate your stocking with crayons, markers, stickers, construction paper cut-outs, or glitter.