thumb-winter

 

Arts and Crafts

  • Make your own ornaments
    • Ask kids to bring in a wallet-sized photo of themselves
    • Print out pictures of ornaments
    • Allow kids to decorate with crayons, markers, glitter, green string (for a wreath), etc., and include their photo
  • Snowman Portraits
    • Ask kids to bring in a wallet-sized photo of themselves
    • Cut three circles one bigger than the next to make the three “snowman” balls, paste them together like a snowman
    • Paste the kids photo on the “head” of the snowman
    • Cover the snowman with cotton balls, covering all of the snowman but the kids face
    • Optional: add black top hats and/or twigs for the full snowman affect

 

Game concepts

  • Snowman Buckets — Line up buckets (like Bozo Buckets) and have the kids throw a white ball into the buckets. Each bucket represents one ball of a snowman. See how tall each kid can make their snowman.
  • Cold potato – Like Hot potato, but since it’s so chilly outside pretend it’s too cold to hold
  • Musical chairs – use holiday songs

 

Food

  • Hot cocoa – let the kids choose between adding vanilla, mint or raspberry flavoring
  • Gingerbread houses – this can be made simple by using graham crackers and letting the kids decorate with frosting tubes and candy
  • Feeding the kids an entire meal? For a fun twist, make a 3-course menu with code names for everything (including silverwear). Try things like fork = reindeer antlers. Have kids pick what they want for each course based on code names and see what funny combinations come out of the mix.