HELP-quickly!i need a project idea for Kdg

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Okay everyone, i know you can help me rescue a bad situation! This friday is DD’s Christmas party at school. I am co-chair with another mom for organizing and overseeing the whole shebang. I have a couple good ideas: first, DD and I are going to pre-bake sugar cookies tonight (cutouts) and take them with frosting and sprinkles for each kid to decorate a couple. Next, we are going to make cute little candy cane ornaments using beads and pipe cleaners. Turns out the other mom only has a pinata planned. We have 3 hours for this party! Sounds like I need one more really good idea. Looking for something easy that they could do in little time. i’m figuring that the cookies will take about 30-40 minutes, the candy canes will take about 15 minutes, and the other mom said the pinata should take about 20 minutes. I don’t want to rush them, but i also want to have extra stuff planned just in case. a craft, a worksheet, anything. they are mostly 5 year olds at a Catholic school. thanks in advance for the help! twk
 
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Okay everyone, i know you can help me rescue a bad situation! This friday is DD’s Christmas party at school. I am co-chair with another mom for organizing and overseeing the whole shebang. I have a couple good ideas: first, DD and I are going to pre-bake sugar cookies tonight (cutouts) and take them with frosting and sprinkles for each kid to decorate a couple. Next, we are going to make cute little candy cane ornaments using beads and pipe cleaners. Turns out the other mom only has a pinata planned. We have 3 hours for this party! Sounds like I need one more really good idea. Looking for something easy that they could do in little time. i’m figuring that the cookies will take about 30-40 minutes, the candy canes will take about 15 minutes, and the other mom said the pinata should take about 20 minutes. I don’t want to rush them, but i also want to have extra stuff planned just in case. a craft, a worksheet, anything. they are mostly 5 year olds at a Catholic school. thanks in advance for the help! twk
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3 hours for the party, oh dear…I wouldn’t count on the cookies taking 30 to 40 mins…I bet more like 10…they aren’t going to spend a lot of time on them…You could make Christmas cards, do you do stamp projects at all or does the school have any, let them stamp cards for their families or you could make a gift for the family…you could make a snack mix…pretzels, chex cereal, cheese puffs, have the kids mix them together and put them in bags…I’d split the kids up and have them rotate from center to center doing different projects so you are not trying to get them all to do the same thing at the same time…you could play “Hot potato” and just use something Christmas related as the “potato”, we’ve done it in the fall using a stuffed pumpkin, so maybe you could use a Christmas stocking or something like that…I don’t know if they do anything with Santa, as it’s a Catholic school, but you could make reindeer food…dry oats and some glitter and sprinkles…mix it together and put it in a bag…the kids take it home and on Christmas Eve they sprinkle it out side for the reindeer, the glitter and sprinkles make it easy for the reindeer to see it, it’s kinda cute…Hope that helps…let us know what you come up with…that’s a really long school party! Our kids parties are about 45 mins…
 
No original advice here, but the Reindeer Food is a great idea. My younger brother brought some home from school several days before Christmas last year, and was really excited when he was finally able to sprinkle it on the lawn Christmas Eve. Plus, it totally worked - Santa had no problem finding the house.

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I would also verify that you can bring home-baked goods to class. I know in my area, it cannot be homemade. I would hate for you to get there and then find that out.

Handprint Santa - You can use all kinds of material for this. My kids have also done Handprint Angels and a Footprint Rudolph.

reindeer food is great.
 
THANK YOU ALL so much! I love the reindeer food idea, we will certainly do that, i found some coloring pages from a suggested link, we will do those, AND we will somehow manage to do the santa handprint craft. ALL GREAT ideas! thanks so much! twk
 
I remember making an advent wreath out of flour and water clay (dyed green and red) with birthday candles on it… Make flour and water clay… dye most of it green. Start with a piece of cardboard about 6"x6" square with a circle drawn on it as a guide. Let the kids either form the green clay into a circle or teach them to roll it out and braid it. Use red dyed clay to make holly balls and place on the green for decoration… add 4 birthday candles to complete wreath.

Or how about a gift for mom? just a simple project using different shaped pasta glued into a Christmas tree or wreath… then spray paint it a metallic green.
 
Three hours???:eek:

OMGoodness…ours are an hour long and that sometimes seems like it is too long.

Who designated 3 hours?:rolleyes:

Remember, everything will go MUCH quicker than you anticipate. I agree that the cookies will be done in minutes, at least by a few kids. Sure, some will be putzy and detailed, but most will hurry up, frost, and eat. How do I know? Our older elementary class helped a first grade class do exactly that earlier last week. I agree with checking to make sure homebaked items are allowed in the classroom. They are NOT at our school - too many kids with a variety of allergies/sensitivities.

You can always pop in the Grinch or Charlie Brown’s Christmas video! Sing carols up and down the halls. Hand them back to the teacher early. (sounds like teacher is trying to extend her vacation days! - 3 hours…:rolleyes: …crazy.)
 
What about having each child make their parent or guardian some sort of Christmas present? If I remember right we each made a nativity in Sunday School for a gift for our parents. I think that involved some sort of clay that had to bake. You could probably just make ornaments with that bakable clay and cookie cutters.

Or… could you bring in a digital camera and printer, take a picture of each child, and have the children each make “frames” out of sturdy material featuring Reindeer or snowmen? You could even magnetize them somehow so that it becomes a refrigerator-worthy item.

You could also sing songs, play heads up-seven up, or play hide the miscellaneous Christmas item. You could even make it so that the person who was the last one to find the Christmas item after x number of times won it!

This is so much fun!
 
What about Santa pics with cotton balls glued on for the beard? That’s a classic. You could do construction paper stockings the same way… red or green paper, make a “collar” at the top of cotton balls, maybe decorate them with glitter glue…

Kids like to sculpt… what about Model Magic or air-dry clay to make their own ornament?
 
That sounds like its going to be a pretty fun party. 😃

What is the reindeer food? Is it lettuce or something. Do you have to go outside after the kids are in bed to get rid of it? Maybe we’ll have our kids set out sugar cubes. I know the cats would take care if it for us over night. 😃

I agree that 3 hours is a little long for a party, but my DD is in Pre-K at a Catholic school. They are getting a measly hour… and that’s including lunch so it will be more like a half hour. They’re doing a gift exchange. That’s probably about it. :rolleyes:
 
An idea that isn’t difficult to do or prepare is making “rose windows” out of paper plates. You’ll need paper plates (without plastic coating), magic markers, one permanent marker, cooking oil (any type), cotton balls/facial pads, paper towels, a hole puncher, and string.

You prepare the paper plates by drawing a circle in the middle of the plate and then lines that follow the creases out to the edges making a “petal” pattern. You have the kids color in the spaces between the lines. Then put a small amount of the cooking oil onto the cotton balls/facial pads, turn the paper plates over and have the kids wipe the cooking oil over the back of the plate. Use the paper towels to clean fingers and any excess oil off the the paper plates. Punch a hold in a spot along the edge of the paper plate and put string through it. When hung in front of a window, the effect is that of a stained glass rose window.
 
If you want to be real fun (and messy) you can take off their shoes, take out some white paper and either brown paint or liquid chocolate, dip their feet in it and make either one or 8 foot prints for reindeer head, googly eyes to glue on, maybe pretzels for the legs and color in the body. Also, red foil paper cut in the shape of a sleigh would be nice to add and they can draw a picture of santa in the sleigh.

If you have access to a color printer, bring a digital camera, take a photo of each child, print it out and make either a picture frame or ornament.

And pine cones, glue and glitter are always nice (as an ornament). Same with pine cones, peanut butter and bird seed (if there aren’t any children with nut allergies) to hang up for the birds.

You can also buy toothpicks, glue them together to make a manger and then the kids can draw and cut out a baby Jesus to paste inside the manger (to be hung up on the tree?).
 
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Same with pine cones, peanut butter and bird seed (if there aren’t any children with nut allergies) to hang up for the birds.
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Hey this sounds cool! My five year old is all about feeding the birds, loves to help me fill the feeder with seed. She would probably love to do this one! Thanks. 😃
 
twk001 said:
Okay everyone, i know you can help me rescue a bad situation! This friday is DD’s Christmas party at school. I am co-chair with another mom for organizing and overseeing the whole shebang. I have a couple good ideas: first, DD and I are going to pre-bake sugar cookies tonight (cutouts) and take them with frosting and sprinkles for each kid to decorate a couple. Next, we are going to make cute little candy cane ornaments using beads and pipe cleaners. Turns out the other mom only has a pinata planned. We have 3 hours for this party! Sounds like I need one more really good idea. Looking for something easy that they could do in little time. i’m figuring that the cookies will take about 30-40 minutes, the candy canes will take about 15 minutes, and the other mom said the pinata should take about 20 minutes. I don’t want to rush them, but i also want to have extra stuff planned just in case. a craft, a worksheet, anything. they are mostly 5 year olds at a Catholic school. thanks in advance for the help! twk
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So what ya got lined up for the boys to do??
 
BamaRider said:
So what ya got lined up for the boys to do??
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Did you read my suggestion:
If you want to be real fun (and messy) you can take off their shoes, take out some white paper and either brown paint or liquid chocolate, dip their feet in it and make either one or 8 foot prints for reindeer head, googly eyes to glue on, maybe pretzels for the legs and color in the body. Also, red foil paper cut in the shape of a sleigh would be nice to add and they can draw a picture of santa in the sleigh.
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Isn’t this messy and exciting enough for a boy, he gets dirty and makes something nice at the same time?
 
Why can’t ya just turn the boys loose out on the playground while the girls decorate cookies? They’ll find something to do, and won’t be messing with the girls while they try to decorate.
 
BamaRider said:
Why can’t ya just turn the boys loose out on the playground while the girls decorate cookies? They’ll find something to do, and won’t be messing with the girls while they try to decorate.
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Oh, I dunno, Guy. My 8 year old son would love to decorate the cookies or do any of the crafts. But he’s my sensitive guy…

My 4 year old boy though… yeah, he would eat the cookies, demolish some craft supplies and get kicked out onto the playground. 😃

So I guess it depends on the boy.
 
the other parents are bringing two christmas themed pinatas and bats…enough said!!twk
 
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