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PARTY DECORATIONS
| STRAW TOPPER - Decorate your child's
holiday drinks with tree toppers. |
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Using the small pattern, cut three or four trees from green
or colored heavy paper. |
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Fold the tree in-half lengthwise and make two slits in the
middle of the tree. |
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Let children decorate trees if you want.
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Slip a straw up through the slits for a straw topper. |
CENTERPLACE TREE - Decorate the middle of your holiday table
with this 3-D tree. |
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Cut two large tree shapes out of heavy green paper. |
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Cut a slit from the top half-way down the tree on one tree. |
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Then, cut a slit from the bottom, half-way up on the other
tree.
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Slide the tree cut from the bottom down from the top of the
other tree. |
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Now you have a 3-D stand-up tree for your child to decorate
with stickers, tinsel, or glitter poms.
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TREE
PUPPET
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Using the medium pattern, cut out a green tree for your child. |
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Let her decorate her tree with moving or button eyes and
tinsel or yarn hair. |
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Give her a craft stick to tape to the back of her tree to
create a handle. |
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CARDS
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Using the medium pattern, cut out green tree shapes. |
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Have your child make cards by folding a piece of white paper
in-half and gluing a tree shape on the front. |
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Let your child decorate his cards with markers,
stickers, glitter, poms, buttons, rick-rack, paper shapes or
whatever you have. |
TREE PICTURES
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Using the large pattern cut out large
green trees for your child |
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Let her glue the tree onto a piece
of construction paper and decorate. Below are a list of
things you might want to use to decorate.
1) Let her splatter on white tempera paint for snow.
2) Cover the tree with glue and sprinkle on glitter
3) Cover the tree with glue and sprinkle on sequins, or
colored tinsel cut into short sections.
4) Cover with glue and sprinkle on small confetti circles
punched out with a paper punch. |
NUMBER & COLOR FELTBOARD GAME |
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Cut out a green felt tree using the
large pattern. |
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Then cut out : 1 Orange circle, 2
Blue circles, 3 Purple circles, 4 Yellow circles and 5
Red circles. |
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Place the circles on your felt tree.
Mix up the colors. |
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Ask you child to remove the color
that only has one circle. |
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Continue, asking for the color that
has two circles, etc. |
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When your child tires of this number
game, let him play with the felt tree and decorate it
however he wishes. |
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