Let’s decorate for Christmas!

Let’s decorate for Christmas!

Children will love adding decorations to their paper house to create a festive décor…

1. Gather your material. You will need red and black construction paper, green felt, metallic paper, black Fun Foam, Christmas stickers, white glue and/or hot glue, scissors, a permanent marker (not shown), star-shaped stickers, white chalk, and 2 pipe cleaners.

2. Fold the black construction paper in half lengthwise to represent a roof. Using the chalk, draw rows of shingles.

3. Open the paper and apply white glue on the bottom half.

4. Press the red construction paper on the glue, lining the top edge up with the crease.

5. Fold the top part of the black paper (roof) over the red paper (without gluing it). Cut a door shape out of the black Fun Foam. Cut windows and a door handle out of the metallic paper. Glue these pieces on the red paper to complete your house.

6. Using a permanent marker, draw window panes, if desired. Cut Christmas tree shapes out of the green felt. Glue them on the front of your house.

7. Decorate the trees using the Christmas stickers.

8. Glue a pipe cleaner horizontally along the bottom of the roof and another one around the door (garlands). Glue star-shaped stickers on them to represent Christmas lights. You can invite older children to respect color patterns for an added cognitive challenge.

9. Finally, cut a small rectangle out of the black Fun Foam and glue it behind the roof to represent a chimney. Press a Santa Claus sticker on it. Display your decorated houses in your daycare. You can draw a street on a large piece of cardboard and let children press their house on it.

Patricia-Ann Morrison