Background White- Cut out a snowman from poster board. Add real scarf for neck. Put twigs for arms and tape real peppermints all over the board. Let the kids have them to take home last day of school before christmas.
Background Red- Lay out on art table and let kids glue red and green things. Sprinkle with glitter.
Variation- Make a gold and silver board! My kids tore up strips of left over silver and gold foil christmas paper. Glue these and add silver and gold glitter.

SCIENCE TABLE

Use gold and silver color cans. Wrap in christmas foil. Fill with as many gold and silver things you can find.
Add a Christmas snow toy. The kind you shake.
Paint some rocks gold and silver, weigh on scales.
Add small branches of different types of evergreens.
Add a book on Evergreens.
Put a bow on the fish tank!
Have Large and Small snowballs. (styrofoam balls)
Weigh a cup of water and a cup of frozen water.
Put some cornstarch in a zip-lock bag. Add a little water and let the kids mush it.

ART/FINE MOTOR

Make Green Playdough. We have an old kitchen set we let kids use with playdough, small dishes and cookie cutters.
Finger paint with Red and Green tempra and mixing gel.
Glue cotton balls on paper plates. Use food color for red and green glue.
Cut out Large, Medium and Small shapes like bells, stars, balls..etc. Have kids trace around them. Let them cut it out and decorate with markers. Hang on the christmas tree.
Cut pictures out of old christmas books. Fold Red, Green or Blue paper for a pocket holder.
Easel paint with Red and Green. Or White with glitter in it.
Take a walk outside and pick up pine cones. Tie with a piece of ribbon and roll in glue then glitter. Pack in small ziplock bags to send home.

CIRCLE TIME

Make Christmas cookies. Let kids do all the pouring and stirring. I let mine cut their's out with cookie cutters.
You must get a copy of Jingle Bugs.
It's a pop-up with things like jingle bugs, cookie bugs etc...in it. It ends on the last page with music. Jiggle Bells!
And you must get a BIG BOOK of The Night Before Christmas.
Traditional books even using big words are a good foundation in learning.
Make Red or Green koolaid. Kids can do all of it!
Bring in a very small cedar tree planted in a can. Discuss evergreens and triangle shapes of some trees.
Show decorations, balls, reindeer, Santa etc...Talk about what we use them for.
Another great BIG BOOK is Where's Santa. Very busy and promotes lots of talk.
Make a flannel board story about a cat that belongs to a girl named Mary. I never name the baby at the end of the story. My last words are "and all the other animals knew a special baby had been born." The kids all yell. "Baby Jesus!" You can tell the real Christmas story this way, side stepping all those rules of no religion in school. After all, the cat told the story. :}

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