Coming up to Christmas is always a busy month and great fun for the children their excitement is building up everyday! For the 1st week of December we decided to concentrate our time on Christmas Art and Crafts. We looked up various sources for ideas and came up with a few quick and easy pieces to make in the class.
We first started with the paper mache snowman for this we needed to make a mixture of flour and water and 2 balloons for each child and blowing them up 1 big and 1 small for the body and head of the snowman. The children started this on Monday they stuck on 1 layer of strips of newspaper this was then left dry overnight. The next day the children were ready to continue on again balloons were taped together to give the shape of the snowman's body this was done with great patience!! The children then stuck on a layer of white strips of computer paper and let dry over night and then painted the snowman white.
The children also made Christmas crackers out of crepe paper, 2 toilet rolls and some glitter and jewels for decorating and of course Christmas crackers have to be filled so what better to fill it with than sweets and lollipops much to the excitement of all the children they are still waiting patiently to crack them open!!!!! The children then went back to finish the snowman using material to make a scarf, pipe cleaners rolled up as buttons, and painted and decorated a paper cup to make the Snowman's hat. A Christmas tree was made to display on our classroom door this was made by drawing each child's hand print on a sheet of green card all of these were placed together and glued on triangular green card to give the shape of the tree and decorated with glitter and Christmas sequins and a shining silver star.
The Christmas Art was a long process but very enjoyable. It was their first time making paper mache some children looked at the mixture and taught we had a very bad looking porridge mixture in the pot and was worried they had to eat it!!!! Overall the children really enjoyed the Christmas Art and in the end they displayed beautiful looking Snowmen and crackers that they proudly displayed in the Classroom and throughout the School for all to see! : )
We first started with the paper mache snowman for this we needed to make a mixture of flour and water and 2 balloons for each child and blowing them up 1 big and 1 small for the body and head of the snowman. The children started this on Monday they stuck on 1 layer of strips of newspaper this was then left dry overnight. The next day the children were ready to continue on again balloons were taped together to give the shape of the snowman's body this was done with great patience!! The children then stuck on a layer of white strips of computer paper and let dry over night and then painted the snowman white.
The children also made Christmas crackers out of crepe paper, 2 toilet rolls and some glitter and jewels for decorating and of course Christmas crackers have to be filled so what better to fill it with than sweets and lollipops much to the excitement of all the children they are still waiting patiently to crack them open!!!!! The children then went back to finish the snowman using material to make a scarf, pipe cleaners rolled up as buttons, and painted and decorated a paper cup to make the Snowman's hat. A Christmas tree was made to display on our classroom door this was made by drawing each child's hand print on a sheet of green card all of these were placed together and glued on triangular green card to give the shape of the tree and decorated with glitter and Christmas sequins and a shining silver star.
The Christmas Art was a long process but very enjoyable. It was their first time making paper mache some children looked at the mixture and taught we had a very bad looking porridge mixture in the pot and was worried they had to eat it!!!! Overall the children really enjoyed the Christmas Art and in the end they displayed beautiful looking Snowmen and crackers that they proudly displayed in the Classroom and throughout the School for all to see! : )
