RetromamaJess

I am MIkes Dec. class mom, and i need to come up with a Christmas craft they can all do, and a treat to bring into class. I was going to make red and green rice crispy treats with a little chocolate on them(who dosen't love thoes? ) but i'm drawing a blank on something easy and not too exspensive for me to provide them to do....any ideas? I need to have it down by tomorrow, since i am meeting with the teacher tomorrow at noon to let her know what i am planning on....Help!!

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Koloe

Why not combine snack and craft into 1 project?

How about ginger bread house? The easy way to do this is to provide gram crackers (walls and roof - even works for a floor if needed - and frosting and then some decorations. What ever candy you can find cheap. It least expensive to make a big batch of frosting yourself - I would recommend the butter cream frosting - quick and easy. http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipe...y=icingrecipes
Don't worry about "clear vanilla extract" - the regular kind works just fine.

Other options would be to cut out circles of white construction paper and give 3 each to put together for snow men.

Or draw snowman outline on colored paper and give them cotton balls they can dip in glue and stick on the snow man. Would need some thing else for eyes and such - maybe some colored pompoms???

How about a Christmas tree from paper that they decorate with glitter and sequense and such?

At 2-years-old - you need to pre cut things for them. Unless you want them to just cut up the paper any which way for some reason. I'm sure they would love that. Keeping it simple is good. But the big thing to remember is you want it to be some thing they can do without a lot of help. The gram cracker house would require some help putting together, but then they could decorate it and then eat it - yum. I've done it with 3-4 year-olds and they love it.

Hanukkah starts tomorrow - maybe you could do some thing with that? A Menorah or some such? Or make a drideal (that little top thing they use)? A short lesson on Judaism could be interesting - vs the ever present Christmas stuff.

Or how about snow flakes?

Sadly most of my ideas involve snow and you rarely see that. While it's falling outside my window right now.

Maybe a gift box they can decorate?

Or make their own wrapping paper. Get some News Print - see if you can buy end rolls at your local newspaper for cheap - and use potatoes for cut out designs and let them stamp the paper with different color tempura (or finger) paint.

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Lisa

candy cane reindeer...take red and white candy canes and a small piece of brown piper cleaner...bend it around the cane to make ears take googly eyes and glue them right next to the pipe cleaner and then on the round part of the cane glue a red poof, to make it rudolph. This should help http://crafts.kaboose.com/candy-cane...-ornament.html

It says use hot glue gun, but elmers works too, or a glue stick or even glue dots.

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DKGirl

Will made this when he was little in preschool.

You take a popcicle stick and glue three cotton balls on it for the snowman body. Take felt and cut out a lot of small "noses" to look like a carrot. You can use a hole punch to punch out eyes and lumps of coal for his buttons with black felt. You can then loop glue yarn string to the back and it can be used as an ornament too.

It shouldn't cost much at all to make as you just need a bag of cotton balls, 1-2 pieces of colored felt and some popcicles sticks. I'm sure you could get it all at a craft store very inexpensive.

It's very cute at this age as the snowmen come out in all different ways.

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Pautzie

I stink at crafts. But there are some great ideas here.

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