1) SUGAR CONE CHRISTAMAS TREES You Need: - Sugar Cones - Chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or candy melts - Assorted candies for decorating* (especially gumdrops for the top) - Waxed Paper Get all ingredients out. Spread out sheets of waxed paper to work on. Microwave chocolate or candy melts in shallow bowl just till starts to melt, stir till smooth. Roll cone in chocolate with two fingers inside cone (if possible) to hold. Lift cone out with two fingers inside cone. Place a gumdrop on top and press gently . Gumdrop should make it easier to stand cone up on waxed paper. Decorate with assorted candies. Let decorated "trees" stand until chocolate hardens. Store sealed in cool place. Note: White chocolate seems to harden much faster than regular chocolate, so decorate the white "trees" right away and let the regular chocolate ones set up a minute before decorating. *Decorations: M&M's large and mini sizes, gumdrops, marshmallows, cinnamon decors, silver ball decors, sprinkles, colored sugars, decorator icing (see below). Decorator Icing: Mix confectioners sugar with just enough milk (just the tiniest bit) and food color to make a thick icing. It should be thick, but still able to pipe through a decorator's tip. Too thick: add more milk (a little at a time). Too thin: add more confectioners sugar. Pipe either with a decorators bag and tips or put in the corner of a freezer bag* & twist shut; snip off tiniest bit of corner and squeeze bag gently to pipe frosting out. * Make sure freezer bag has nice square corners and not pleated ones. 2) Guess Who? Sung to " London Bridge is Falling down" Guess whose beard is long and white? Long and white? long and white? Guess whose beard is long and white? Dear old Santa! Continue inserting the phrases: Guess whose suit is red and white? Guess who comes on Christmas Eve? He'll be driving eight brown reindeer Sung to "She'll be coming round the mountain" Oh, he'll be driving eight brown reindeer when he comes. He'll be driving eight brown reindeer when he comes. He'll be driving eight brown reindeer, He'll be driving eight brown reindeer, He'll be driving eight brown reindeer when he comes. Oh, He'll be piled up with toys when he comes. He'll be piled up with toys when he comes, He'll be piled up with toys, He'll be piled up with toys, For the good girls and boys. He'll be piled up with toys when he comes. Oh, he'll be dressed all in red when he comes. He'll be dressed all in red when he comes. He'll be dressed all in red, He'll be dressed all in red. From his toes up to his head. He'll be dressed all up in red when he comes. 3) Christmas Game Sung to "Mary had a little lamb" Christmas time will soon be here, Soon be here, soon be here, Christmas time will soon be here, Happiest time of all the year. Clap your hands with Christmas cheer, Christmas cheer, Christmas cheer. Claps your hands with Christmas cheer, Happiest time of all the year. Skip around with Christmas cheer, Christmas cheer, christmas cheer. Skip around with Christmas cheer, Happiest time of all the year. Continue with the Phrases: ---Tiptoe around with Christmas cheer, ---Hop around with Christmas cheer, ---Wave to your friends with Christmas cheer, ---Dance around with Christmas cheer, 4) Christmas Fingerplay I am a Christmas tree growing up tall, (stretch) But when I first started, I was this small. (crouch) Then I grew bigger and had branches this wide, (stand slowly, arms out) And I made pine cones with seeds hiding inside. (hands for pine cone) The wind shakes my branches, (shake arms) And down those seeds fall, (flutter fingers downward) To make new little pine trees for tinsel and balls. (point hands together for tree, opening slowly to form ball shape) 5) Christmas Craft Baggie Christmas Wreath Materials needed: 1 wire coat hanger box of "baggie" brand sandwich bags hot glue gun misc. mini size decorations/bows Bend the coat hanger to look like a circle with a hook on the top of it. Tie the baggies around the coat hanger. Tie as if you were tying your shoes, but without the bow part - or kinda like half a knot. Squish the baggies together and cover the entire hanger except the hook. It should look like a wreath - all fluffy. Glue on decorations or bows. Wrapping for Wreath Turn a regular size paper grocery bag inside out. Sponge paint on various colors and/or prints of Christmas things. Place wreath in bag and staple shut, adding a bow at the top of the bag. 6) Reindeer Faces About this project - This edible project makes two reindeer. I enjoyed this page and wanted to send back something that my own kids enjoyed making years ago. This project is rated VERY EASY to do. Supplies - •1 slice bread •peanut butter •4 mini pretzels •4 raisins •2 mini marshmallows, maraschino cherries or red-hot cinnamon candies Project how to - 1.Cut bread in half from corner to corner, making two equal triangles. 2.Spread peanut butter over bread. 3.Decorate as follows: •Lay in front of you, point facing you and long side of triangle facing away from you. •Place one mini pretzel on each upper corner (the antlers); two raisins in the center of each slice (the eyes) and one mini marshmallow (or maraschino cherry or cinnamon candy if you are making Rudolphs) on the tip of each short point nearest you (the nose). 4.Presto! Two reindeer faces looking back at you . . . simple enough for a preschooler to make, fast enough for a mom to make one each for a whole class, and nutritious enough to nourish even the most jaded kid on Christmas Day. Aunt Annie's Craft Page(tm) found these items on this web site! 7) xmas wall hanging About this project - This project is both easy and fun for kids of all ages. This project is rated VERY EASY to do. Supplies - •Light colored cloth napkin (pick any size you like) •Dowel rod •Yarn (red and green) •Green & Red paint (finger paint is best for kids) •Glue Project how to - 1.Fold top of napkin over 1/2 inch and glue 2.Place child's hand in the GREEN paint, and press it several times on the napkin to form a wreath. 3.Add RED thumb prints for holly berries. 4.Attach dowel rod. 5.Hang by yarn 8) CHRISTMAS TREE BULBS Materials: clear glass tree bulbs (ball-shaped glass ornaments small Christmas accessories or toys ribbons cotton sequins glitter glue Remove the top hook part from the bulb. Fill the bulb with such things as: cotton puffs, a sprig of holly or mistletoe, a small toy, bright strands of ribbon, etc. You can also add a small picture. Roll it up and stick it through and it will unroll itself. You can also decorate the outside of the bulb, just be sure to not cover up what is inside the bulb. When finished, put the top back on. 9) SNOWBALL TREE Materials: Styrofoam cone green construction paper cotton balls toothpicks or straight pins glue glitter possibly clear tape Take a styrofoam cone and wrap it in the paper. Tape it together. Stick the cotton balls onto the cone with the pins or toothpicks. Lightly dab some glue onto the edge of the cotton balls. Sprinkle glitter over the glue. Let your tree dry completely before moving it. 10) This is Christmas sung to 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' What is Christmas? We'll tell you. It's putting love in all we do; In our work, and in our play. In our living every day. It is showing love for others, Father, Mother, Sisters, Brothers. 11) Hanukkah Title: Candle Puppets Materials: toilet paper rolls, popsicle sticks, foil, glue, scissors, marking pens, yellow construction paper Have each child cover a roll with foil. Cut a flame shape out of the paper and draw a face on it. Glue flame on end of stick and insert stick in roll. Hold roll with one hand and make flame dance with the other. 12) Title: Drediels Materials: Pencils, glue, paint, paintbrushes, small milk cartons or boxes Fold the tops of the milk cartons down to make boxes. Mix a little glue with paint and let the children use this to paint the boxes. Poke a pencil through box from top downwards so point is on bottom. Poem: I have a little dreidel I made it out of clay. And when it's dry and ready, A dreidel game I'll play. 13) Title: Playdough Menorah Materials: playdough, birthday candles, large candles Let each child roll out a piece of playdough and press to form a base. Then place large candle in center and four small candles on each side of the large. 14) Title: Tasty Menorahs Materials: Bread, cream cheese or butter, carrot sticks, pretzel sticks, raisins Have each child spread cream cheese or butter on a slice of bread. Arrange the 8 pretzels as candles and the carrot stick as the large center candle. Use the raisins as flames at the ends of the carrot and pretzel sticks. 15) Title: Wrapping Paper Materials: blue paint, large pieces of white paper, plastic margarine lids, small Hanukkah cookie cutters or basic shapes Pour a small amount of paint into the margarine lids and then let each child dip a cookie cutter into the paint. Use these to stamp on the paper to make a pretty pattern. 16) Glue wide tongue depressors in a rectangle shape. Have the children paint them & then glue crayons on the four sides. Then put a photo on the back, fitting it into the frame. Cover the back & add a magnet. 17) Get a sheet of FunFoam, a package of Christmas stickers, & a strip of self- adhesive magnet. Cut the FunFoam in squares bigger than the sticker, & the magnet in about 1/2" pieces. Give each child a piece of foam, a sticker, & a magnet. Put the sticker on the foam, trim around it as desired (leave some color from the foam showing as a border) & stick the magnet on the back. These are great for any holiday/occasion. A variation is to hot-glue a pin back to it instead of the magnet. 18) Make wreaths out of shredded wheat (crumpled up), glue, green tempra paint, red hots, & Cool Whip lids. Mix glue, shredded wheat & green food coloring together. Spread around the cool whip lid, mounding it up, but leaving a hole in the center. Press in the red hots for the berries & let dry overnight. 19) Make ornaments out of glue & glitter. Trace a simple star or whatever design on paper (tape the paper to the table), lay wax paper over the top so you can see the design (also tape it to the table). Have the kids put glue over the outline of the design & then sprinkle on the glitter. Dry overnight & then peel from wax paper. 20) Use a simple Christmas stocking outline on white paper. Give the kids an assortment of items (pom-poms, lace, rick-rack, etc) to decorate it. After decorating, have them cut out the stocking (you can have them cut out two & glue them together). Then they have their own stocking for. 21) Pipecleaner ornaments. You need pipe cleaners & tri-colored beads. Take the pipecleaner & thread on the beads so they nest together. They can make a wreath, candy cane or star. For older kids you can have them weave ribbon with holes in it through the pipecleaner & between each bead. 22) Doily Snow People - One Large Doily for body, One Small Doily for head, One Small Doily, cut in half for arms, black construction paper for eyes, 3 buttons & mouth. Glue to colored construction paper. 23) "Days Till Crhistmas Bell" Use a smaller "Chinette" type paper bowl, turn the bowl upside down & paint the entire outside. Allow to dry. Cut strips of paper to make a paper chain. Have the children glue the strips together to make the paper chain for however many days are left till Christmas (reserve one strip to attach chain to bell). Place the painted bowl upside down on the table. Bring two ends of a pipe cleaner together. Stick ends down through a hole in the center, bottom of the bowl, until half of pipe cleaner is below bottom of bowl & half is above. (you should have a loop on the top to hang your bowl(bell) with. To keep the pipe cleaner in that position, twist it on each side of the bottom of bowl. Squeeze a drop or two of glue between the pipe cleaner & hole in bowl to help keep in place. Add your paper chain to the top of the bell. They can tear one loop or chain off each day & count down the days to Christmas. 24) Use the little pretzels (the ones that are shaped like a heart with a cross in the middle). Glue 1 layer of them in a circle like a wreath, then glue a second layer on top of the first joining the pretzels together over the middle of a pretzel on the first layer. Hang with a ribbon. 25) Pasta Christmas Wreaths Cut centre out of small paper plate. Decorate outer ring that's left with pasta shapes. Glue them on with craft glue. Spray with silver or gold spray paint. Decotate with a bow of tinsel. 26) Take large wooden embroidery hoops & unbleached muslin fabric. Spray paint the hoop red. Paint child's hand green, have child make hand prints in a circle (a little smaller than the hoop). Have handprints overlap.When dry, paint child's finger tip red. Have child make finger prints in groups of three here and there on the green hand prints. When dry put tightly in hoop, trim excess fabric from outside, and hot glue eyelet trim to bottom of hoop. Very nice keepsake gift for parents. Use tempra paint. 25) Reindeer magnet: Use a small dog biscuits, small wiggly eyes, small red pom poms (for the nose), brown chenile cut in 2 inches length strips (for antlers) & magnet strip.Take a dog biscuit & work on it vertically. Hot glue a red pompom near the bottom (above where the dog biscuit indents), then hot glue the wiggly eyes above that. Twist the chenile sticks (pipe cleaners) into antlers & hot glue those at the top of the dog biscuit, gluing them to the back so they stand out at the top. Then glue magnetic backing to the biscuit. 26) Make cute "necklaces" using Christmas candy. Use cling wrap - maybe about 2-3 feet in length for each necklace, place candy in the center of the wrap throughout the whole length of the cling wrap, fold the cling wrap over a couple of times to seal in the candy (keeping it long) & use red curling ribbon & tie both ends. Then tie it about every three inches (using about 4 inches pieces of curling ribbon) so there is different colored candy in each section. When done tie the two ends together.