Activity
Lend a Hand
Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on learning the number five. There will be five fingers on the handprint that makes the base of the Christmas tree, five rows of each color of garland, five ornaments of each color and a five-pointed star to put atop the Christmas tree.
Grade
Subject
MathNumber SenseNumbers 0-10Writing Numbers 0-10Counting Numbers 1-10 Arts & craftsPaper & Glue CraftsPainting & Drawing HolidaysChristmasThe Holiday Season
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What You Need:
- White paper
- Green tempera paint
- Large paintbrush
- Glitter glue (4, or more colors)
- Metallic paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue
- Construction paper (brown)
What You Do:
- Ask your child to count her fingers out loud from one to five.
- Help her to paint her hand and press it in the center of the paper to leave a handprint. Turn the paper so the fingertips are pointing down.
- Have her cut out a base for her tree from the construction paper and glue it in place under the fingertips.
- Encourage her to choose one color of the glitter glue to begin with and create five lines of garland with it on her "tree." She should count each line of garland aloud as she's creating them. Repeat this with another color of glitter glue.
- Have her create five Christmas ornaments, each with a different color glitter glue. Repeat this process again with as many colors as she likes, counting each ornament as she creates it, and changing colors when she reaches the number five.
- Ask her to draw and cut out a five-pointed star using the metallic paper. Glue it on the top of the tree.
- Have her finish off the project by writing the year at the bottom of the tree on the construction paper using the glitter glue. Alternatively, she can write her name to personalize her tree.
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