I've just been appointed lead for my 3 yr old twins preschool Christmas party. I need to come up with games and a craft. Obviously for a bunch of 3 yr olds they need to be quite simple. And...I would like to add affordable. Appreciate any ideas! Thanks
Pin the nose on Rudolf, making snowflakes with glitter pens or decorating prebaked cooked. They have all worked for me!
make santa beards... print off santa pictures and let them color them, then help them glue cotton balls on for the beard...?
A great game for kids or adults, using old mittens (they have to be mittens) try to open a hershey kiss! It is alot harder than you would think. But kids can do it, so the fastest kid to open it wins. And of course they get to eat it too! Hysterical watching adults do it, but kids have fun too!
Check out http://party.kaboose.com/classroom-party4.html for ideas. Also, US Toy/Constructive Playthings in Skokie has tons of very cheap goodie bag supplies and party supplies.
try www.orientaltrading.com they have easy, cute and affordable crafts. Also, their crafts come in dozen or more qty. I have their catalog and the keycode for free shipping is KG###-###-####. You can go online and look at their current book and at checkout put the keycode in for free shipping. The crafts are easy and cute!
idea - Decorate a stocking for a craft. Use inexpensive felt stockings - check the dollar store. Add stick on decorations like letters for their names, jewels, and foamies shapes. Or check OrientalTrading.com for easy to do Christmas crafts.
For the party, ask other parents to bring in games from home such as velcro darts, kids bean bag toss, bowling, ring toss, plastic bottles to knock down. Children can roam a room set up with games and win a candy or sticker prize for each game they play. The candy can go into the stocking they made. Also have a tattoo station, and face painting station supervised by parent volunteers. If you have time leftover, you can play freeze dance, limbo, and hot potato with the whole group. Dont forget festive cookies and milk.
Musical candy canes--have kids sit in circle, hand one a candy cane, play a Christmas CD and they pass the candy cane around... when you stop the music, the kid with the candy cane is out BUT gets to keep the candy cane... start another candy cane around the circle... continue till all have a candy cane. :)
Spoon/ornament race... form two groups, give each one a large serving spoon with a small shatterproof ornament on it... have them race to a bucket and drop it in...
Pass the santa (hot potato) for a game, bozo buckets type thing. For a craft that becomes a snack you can bring gingerbread or some other kind of cookie and have them decorate them and then it can be the snack too. You can do a simple ornament craft buy premade and have them color/decorate. Online has tons of ideas too.
