Day 10 of 25 Christmas Crafts

For the 10th craft, we made hand print wreaths. 

First I traced and cut out the kids hands, and some "berries", also some circles out of cardboard. 

 Then the kids glued their handprints to the cardboard circle, all the way around- with fingers pointing out. If you can, do some layers. 

 After that, they put some decorations on their wreaths- snowmen, snowflakes and the "berries". 

And then we had our wreaths! 

Happy Canada Day

This week we are doing Canada Day crafts. Today we started with a wreath for the door (or where ever!).

I got everything ready by cutting out a circle, you can do this with paper, cardboard, construction paper etc. Then cut a smaller circle out of the middle of that! After that is done, cut out 2 maple leafs per child- one large enough to fit in the centre of the circle, and the other small enough to fit on the beaver. Yes- Beaver- then draw and cut out a beaver!

The I collected our items to decorate- the kids wanted to colour their pictures today, but you could use piece of red paper- like a collage, paint, markers etc. We needed tape, and a piece of string as well!



Then I explained that Friday is Canada's birthday. And that on our flag we have a maple leaf- which is red. And that our Animal is a beaver. We then coloured the circle and the leafs red, and the beaver brown.



Then we used the tape to tape the beaver onto the wreath, then the small leaf onto the beaver, and then with string, we attached the larger leaf in the middle of the circle.