......a christmas craft,
my second grader needs to write HOW TO instructions as a class project. To make it more fun are writing the directions for a christmas craft.
Then the mama's need to buy the supplies and the kids will each make as many of the crafts as they can in one hour.
Like susie will follow the directions on each of john, kate, Suri, Angelina, and brad's crafts and make them and bring them home, and Jennifer will make each of Ross, Joey, Monica and Phoebe's crafts, or as many as she can.
So my dd needs a cheap, easy (three step would be awesome) and Appealing Christmas craft that the kids can make AT school in a limited time frame.
Thre are 20 kids and i don't mind spending $20 if i HAVE to but less would be better. Most importantly i want it to be someting the kids would really enjoy making and have it look half way decent when they bring it home and explain to their grown ups how they made it.
any help would be great, and i have 24 hrs to come up with 3 options and then next week the teacher will tell us which of the crafts my dd gets to make. THEN she has a week to write it and to buy supplies.
i do think it is a neat project but i'm low on ideas. I will check pinterest but thought i would check here first for tried and true successful crafts.
Thanks!!
thanks all haven't heard back yet. will keep you posted if it isnt' too long.
All good ideas so far, but what about going old school and doing paper snowflakes?? That is pretty perfect for a 2nd grader ability level and they could maybe decorate their finished product with some glitter glue?
I like the reindeer idea too.
Here is a craft we are actually making today, painted bulb ornaments. I bought clear plastic (or you can get glass) ornaments from Michaels, they were a pack of 8 for $3.00. Then you drop a few drips of different colored acrylic craft paint (you can usually get a bottle of paint for between 70 cents or a few dollars for designer paint) inside the ornament and either shake or swirl the ornament around so the colors marble or streak together. Let them dry on an egg carton for 24 hours.
3 packages clear ornaments @ $3.00 each: $9.00
5-10 bottles acrylic paint @ 1.00 each: $5-$10.00
Egg carton for drying the bulbs
Total: $15-$20.
Here is a link with instructions. I think they are beautiful and look easy!
http://ayellowbicycle.blogspot.com/2011/11/pinterest-chal...
**added: We just finished this craft. It took 1 hour to get out the materials, make the craft and clean up- we all did 3 ornaments though. I did the craft with a 9 year old, 7 year old and 4 year old. If you do this craft, the kids will need help cleaning up. You will want a roll of paper towels or a box of baby wipes handy to wipe hands and wipe the outside of the ornaments at the end. Also I would suggest simply pouring small amounts of paint right from the bottle into the ornaments rather than thinning it out and using a paintbrush- it is less mess and the paint looked and worked better undiluted. They turned out really nice and I think I am going to do a 2nd round this weekend because everyone wanted to try more color combos. We even had glow in the dark paint on hand, won't those look cool!
The first thing that popped into my mind was pine cone Christmas trees!
I remember doing this several years in a row as a child and with my own kids several times now.,
You will need:
1 pine cone for each child (you can pick up the cinnamon scented ones at WalMart in a big bag or go to a craft store.
White paint, enough for all the kids (about 3 Tbs. each
Glitter (white is best, I think because it looks like sparkling snow)
Just paint the ends of the pine cones and then sprinkle them with glitter while still wet. To make it even more festive, you can add in glue and then glue on pretty little round beads!
I think this idea is wonderful! What a fun idea. Oh, and sorry if I repeated someone else's idea.. I didn't read before posting. :)
the construction paper advent ring thing ~ super easy!
need red and green paper
cut in small strips
fold and glue around other strip
tear one off for each day of december until christmas
Candy cane reindeer?
Add red Pom Pom noses, google eyes (glue on those 3 things).
Then add brown pipe cleaner antlers.
Easy peasy, and cute!
Make reindeer with brown construction paper. The child traces his foot and cuts it out to make the reindeer head. The the child traces both hands and cuts them out to make the antlers. Glue the antlers to the head. Draw a face. Very cheap, but looks really cute. Maybe too young for grade two?
Make felt candy canes.
Get red felt and white felt -- cut red into the shape of a candy cane (cookie cutter helps) cut white in thin strips --- glue white strips to red candy cane at an angle. Could also use white rick-rack instead of felt.
You can also dress them up with sequins and glitter --- you can even write names on them with a marker or fabric paint.
Brown construction paper, hole puncher, red ribbon, brown pipe cleaners, black magic marker, pencil, scissors.
Cut the paper in half sheets. Give each child a piece of paper and have them trace their hand. Have some space between the fingers, but stetch out the thumb. Cut out the hand print and make the part of the hand that attaches to the wrist look like an oval.
Turn the handprint so that the fingers point down and punch a hole about an inch down. Give enough red ribbon to thread through the hole so that it can easily hang on the Christmas tree.
Have them draw an eye on the thumb. It's a low-tech Christmas reindeer. Staple the pipe cleaners where the thumb joint would be for the antlers.
Voila, you're done. And it's cheap too.
Dawn
I saw a cute thing at a craft fair. It's a picture of santa's head with 24 numbered circles in the beard area. Each numbered circle corresponds to that day in December. So starting on December first, you glue a cotton ball on that day's circle. You could print out the Santa pictures then the kids could cut it out, glue it to a decorative piece of paper, then count out the cotton balls and put them in a bag.
That's all I got.
Ha, I lied. I do have more! Clothespin reindeer? Fold paper and cut shapes then unfold a beautiful snowflake, add a little glitter glue to fancy it up?
One more - the candy cane reindeer. Glue two googly eyes and a tiny pompon nose to the short end of the cane then wrap a pipe cleaner around it at the top and shape into antlers.
This is one of my favorite kid's crafts:
http://kimmccrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/craft-for-little-g...
My grandfather used to make bells out of communion cups. You can find them now in the craft store in colors, so no painting necessary. What you need to do is just poke holes (have the teacher or parent do this - you can pre-poke the cups for class) in the bottoms and the kids use plastic needles to thread yarn through a few of them (like three). Then tie a button or bead to the end that is inside the cup and tie the other ones together so that they bells can be hung up together as an ornament. For added bling, you can use glitter glue or tie them to pipe cleaners that are twisted into circles for door hangers.
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/bible_themes_-_christm... (their bells are toward the bottom)
Or baby food jar snowglobes: http://www.designmom.com/2010/12/diy-photo-snowglobes/
How about a magnet? Get rolled magnetic tape (adhesive on one side) and some foam Christmas tree shapes, for example, with other stickers to decorate it.
1) cut the magnetic strip in 3 equal pieces (give them a couple inches to start with
2) stick the magnets on the back of the foam shape
3) decorate tree with stickers/markers/glitter glue - whatever you want to provide them
4) write your name on the back
Candy cane mouse?
Cut (maybe precut) red felt into a teardrop shape. Add two horizontal slits, one near back, one near front/tip for the candy cane to slide through, with the curved part near the back/round end for the "tail." Glue googly eyes and a puff ball nose. We have made them before on our own but you can buy kits for them, too, like this:
http://www.orientaltrading.com/mouse-candy-cane-craft-kit...
we used to put peanut butter on a cracker and cover it with birdseed we would then hang them or set them on the branches of the trees. birds and squirrels loved them
Wreaths or candy canes with pipecleaners
