More Christmas Ideas

Here are a few more fun Christmas activities to enjoy with your kids. We didn't get to these at day camp but they are still just as fun.
Gingerbread Door Hanger:
Materials:

• Safety Scissors
• Brown Construction paper
• gingerbread stencils (optional)
• Pencils
• Washable Crayola Markers
• Red, Green, Brown, or White yarn or string
• A single hole puncher

Instructions:

1. Either draw or trace a few gingerbread people onto brown construction paper.
2. Cut out the gingerbread people
3. Hole punch to top of each gingerbread person
4. Use markers to decorate the people with faces and other accessories 
5. Weave the string or yarn in and out of the hole punches, connecting the people
6. Tie off the string at the ends
7. Hang it over a doorway or window

Christmas Guess Who:

Materials: 

• Index cards of strips of paper
• Tape
• something to write with

Instructions:

1. Come up with Christmas themed names and/or objects. Santa Clause, ornament, Rudolph, snow, north pole, etc.
2. Write each idea on a separate index card or strip of paper.
3. Without showing the players the cards, tape a card to each player's back with the side with the writing facing out.
4. Each player has to figure out what name or object is on their back by asking the other players, who know what the card says, yes or no questions about it... Is it a person? Is it a boy? Is it a girl? Does it live at the north pole? etc.
5. The first person to guess their's right wins. 

For extra Christmas spirit play Christmas music in the background while enjoying these activities and the other activities described in my previous post about Christmas Day Camp! 

Have A Very Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas Day Camp

The other day I did a Christmas day camp for the kids. We played games and did a lot of crafts. The first craft we did was given to me by Keegan, Delaney, and Cam's mom, Ashley. Thank you Ashley for your help.
Gnome Santas:
Materials:

• small, cylinder pieces of wood from a tree, branch, log, etc.
• Red, Black, White, and Green Crayola Cloud Clay.
• small googly eyes
• Tooth picks

Instructions:

1. Take the small, cylinder pieces of wood and shave of the top so that the top slants upward.
2. Choose either red or green Crayola Cloud Clay for your Santa.
3. Take off a chunk of clay and place the wood in the center closer to the bottom
4. Start the wrapping process by covering the bottom of the wood (the NOT slanted side) by folding the up the clay on the bottom onto the wood
5. Then work your way up wrapping the clay on both sides (do not fold over on the face, which is the slanted part)
6. When you get to the top fold the excess clay on the top over.
7. Take a strip of white and roll it.
8. wrap it around the face on the edge of the other clay.
9. Take some more white.
10. Mold it into a beard type shape lay it down about 1/4 way up the face.
11. Take a tooth pick and make small incisions on the beard to make it look like hair.
12. Then, with the tooth pick, cut out a mouth shape in the beard almost to the top of the beard. (this creates a mouth and a mustache)
13. Take a tiny red ball of red Crayola Cloud Clay and stick it at the top of the mustache, for a nose.
14. Either stick two small googly eyes on the face for eyes of take 2 small flat pieces of white clay and two even smaller pieces of black clay and make eyes.
15. Let them air dry

Paper Bag Reindeer Puppet:
Materials:

• Brown paper lunch sacks
•  small colored cotton balls
• Big googly eyes
• red and black washable markers
• Brown Construction Paper

Instructions:

1. Take the child's hands and trace them onto the brown construction paper
2. Cut them out
3. Have the open side of the lunch sack facing down (flap on the top)
4. Glue the handprints onto the side of the bag without the flap with the thumbs facing out in opposite directions. (these are the antlers)
5. The flap is the face so glue the googly eyes on the top of the flap and the cotton ball in the middle of the flap. 
6. If you want a moth either use a red or black marker and draw a mouth underneath the flap.
7. Now you have a puppet, stick your hand into the bag and make the flap move up and down.
8. Name it after your favorite reindeer, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, or Rudolph. 

Bruce The Spruce (the talking Christmas tree at the Warm Beach Lights of Christmas)
Materials:

• green, red, and yellow construction paper
• colored markers or small colored cotton balls.
• Safety scissors
• Pencils
• Big googly eyes

Instructions:

1. draw and cut out a fairly big Christmas tree on green construction paper.
2. Cut out a smile mouth shape on red construction paper and glue it closer to the bottom
3. Glue the googly eyes closer to the top. 
4. Draw on ornaments with Crayola Washable Markers or glue on small colored cotton balls
5. Cut out a star on yellow construction paper and glue it on the top of the tree.
6. Merry Christmas Bruce!

The last thing we did was play a game called Santa Says. It's just like Simon Says but except for saying Simon Says... you say Santa Says... and you wear a Santa hat if you have one. I got this idea from http://holidays.kaboose.com/xmas-party.html
Happy Holidays!