2 Foot Tall Christmas Tree

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Magic Reindeer Food

What is “Magic Reindeer Food” you ask?

 It’s oats mixed with glitter that the kids sprinkle on the lawn on Christmas Eve to be sure that the reindeer don’t miss the house! 

(Be sure the kids don’t eat the reindeer food!)  

Have you heard of this fun idea? 

I learned of it when my boys were in elementary school.

I am definitely doing this one with my day care kids. 

I know they will LOVE it!

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Here’s what you need:
Paper lunch bags
Precut white, black and red circles (I used a circle punch)
Precut brown antlers (I hand cut these)
Baggies
Oats
Sprinkles
Glitter
…and anything else you might want to add!

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I added a tag and poem to attach to the bag.

It has once been said,

that right before you go to bed,

that you should wrinkle magic reindeer food,

to quickly bring Santa and his brood.

For many years the legend has been told,

to boys and girls, both young and old,

sprinkle the food through out your yard,

the finding your house won't be so hard!

The reindeer can smell the food for 100 miles,

Just do not leave it in big piles!

After you do this you must go to sleep very fast,

so Santa and his reindeer will not pass!

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I also found a cute site that has cute pre-made tags.

The kids were so excited to take home their 'magic reindeer food' and sprinkle it on the lawn so that Santa's reindeer can find their homes.
Make sure you leave a carrot treat too!

3D Snowflake Decorations

 Learn how to make 3D Snowflakes HERE.

Little Elves

Santa Play Doh Mat

Note: I downloaded the picture from Childcareland.com and laminated it.

Snowmen

Cut out pictures of snowmen and glue them to black construction paper.

I used a snowflake punch to make the snowflakes.

Glue them to the paper.

We sang Frosty the Snowman and had a snowball fight

 (with crumpled up copy paper as the snowballs).

Snowmen sock puppets

To make these snowmen, I used: socks, buttons, card stock cut outs and a hot glue gun.

Homemade Snow Globes

To make snow globes, I used canning jars, sticks from the backyard, hot glue gun, glitter, glycerin (you can find this at a pharmacy. I got mine from CVS) and plastic snowflakes (I had them in my craft closet, but think I purchased them at Michaels Craft Store). 

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Hot glue the sticks to the lid. Hold it in place until the glue dries. 

(You'll have to do this for the kids).

                                                 Add glycerin, glitter and snowflakes.

Note: glycerin helps the snowflakes fall slower.

I guessed at the amount of glycerin.

Polar Bear Caves

One of the things we talk about during our winter / polar region theme is Polar Bears.

We made a cave out of newspaper, stapled it to card stock (adults do this), painted it white and added cotton balls.  You could turn this into an igloo by adding cotton balls all over.

Hickory Dickory Dock

the mouse ran up the clock…

The two and three year olds used grey paint to make a mouse face.

The toddlers used grey markers.

We then added ears, eyes, nose and whiskers.

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Coloring sheet and Poem:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/hickorydickory.pdf