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By Julianne
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1. Go outside and collect pine cones. Try the local park, cemetary, or your sister's house (where I get mine...) Have students tie a string around the top of the cone. Using green poster paint have students completely| cover the pinecone, creating a tiny pine tree. Now they can decorate it any way they like. Students who celebrate Christmas can add glitter and sequins, buttons or blobs of paint for ornaments. Students who do not celebrate can add white paint and clear or silver glitter for snow to make an evergreen. 2. Use candy molds and plaster of paris to make plaster ornaments. Make the ornaments | |
ahead of time. (see directions under "Christmas Crafts" just below this post) Students who celebrate can make a tree ornament. Students who don't celebrate can decorate a wintery item like a bear or star to make a necklace. Just thread it onto a piece of yarn when they are done painting it.3. Make folded paper snowflakes. I usually fold the paper ahead of time for first through third graders. They can do the cutting themselves, then unfold, add a string and hang. You can also add clear or silver glitter - or whatever color you like if you're not a purist! 4. Save every piece of white styrofoam, box material and paper you can find. Have parents donate anything white. Some examples: packing peanuts, paper plates, scrap paper, large pieces of packing styrofoam, plastic garbage bags, white balloons, cloth, yarn, felt. Now turn your group loose to create "snow sculpture" from these items. You provide glue, white or clear tape, toothpicks, etc. to hold the sculptures together.
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