One per page:
 | Creative coloring pages: children can first
design their shapes - - a face for Santa, some buttons for
the gingerbread man, some swirly designs for an ornament --
and then color or paint their design. The basic
outline provides some guidance for the child while still
allowing for lots of creativity.
Pull out some interesting things like cotton balls, large
wiggly eyes and sequins to add to the creativity.
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| Christmas books: Print 5 of the same template
and cut them out. Have the children author and
illustrate a simple Christmas story inside the shapes.
About 4 pages for the story is a good length with 1 more
page as the cover. Staple the book together.
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| the angel, bell, ornament, Santa, star, stocking and tree
templates would all work well for this project. |
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| Lacing Projects: see the Lacing
instructions for details -- basically you just use a
hole punch and punch around the outside of the template then
have the children weave wool, string or ribbon through the
holes. |
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Two per page:
| Small Creative coloring pages - same as 1 per page
version (see above)
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| Small Christmas books - same as 1 per page version
(see above)
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| Gift Card front: Use creative coloring ideas
to decorate the image. Cut it out and glue it to the
front of a folded piece of construction paper.
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| Write Merry Christmas on the top and a message on the
inside |
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| Ornament: Trace the shape onto a piece of
felt or fun foam or even heavy card stock. Decorate
with markers, glitter glue, wiggly eyes, sequins etc.
Punch a hole in the top or one corner and thread a piece of
ribbon through to hang on the tree.
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| For example, the holly could be cut from green fun foam with a
red pom pom, red sequins or red glitter glued on to make the
berry. |
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Four per page:
| small Ornament: same as the two per page
version (see above)
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| Gift Tags: Use creative coloring ideas to
decorate the image. Cut it out and print TO:
_______ and FROM: ________ on the
back to make a gift tag. Punch a hole in the top
corner and tie a ribbon on it (use the ribbon to tape to a
gift). You can even tie on a small candy cane with the
ribbon
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Glue it to a rectangle of construction and print TO:
_______ and FROM: ________ to the
right of the image. |
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| Shrinky Dinks: see the Shrinky
Dink instructions for details -- basically you just
trace the image onto shrinky dink paper, color with pencil
crayon, cut out and bake to make necklaces, charms,
keychains or tiny tree ornaments. |
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