Monday, 17 November 2008

The Nativity story

This is a nice one by Topmarks and here is a Nativity kit

Click here for another story

Stable template

Sunday, 16 November 2008

Christmas wordsearch


Drag and drop snowman scene

This is a lovely drag and drop snowman scene

Nativity clip art

I found some clip art that can be used freely for educational use here Click on the images because there is more.

Advent calendar ideas

I love this idea where the children put a cotton ball on santa's face. I did this a few years ago for the class and also my little girl. I got a large sheet of paper and painted santa's face. We did it as a whole class.


Here is a link for a template
Below is my feeble effort of painting santa's face on a large sheet of paper. At least this way you could if necessary leave out the numbers so a child glues a piece of cotton wool on each day leading up to Christmas. Good if you have more than 24 in your class.


One teacher I worked with did a fabulous one where she got a bunch of twigs and basically stuck them to the wall with a big ribbon around the bottom. She then got the children to draw a picture and put their picture in a numbered envelope to hang on the branches
The paper chain advent calendar isn't a new idea but I thought I would mention it just incase someone doesn't know about it. Here are some instructions and a poem. You could write an activity on it each link for the children to do each day.
If anyone has any photographs or ideas then please email me and I would be happy to put them in this link

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Santa's workshop role play

I have just started making somethings for my santa's role play area. Please keep checking back on this link because I will add things as I make them










Online Christmas fun

There are some fantastic sites out there. Here are a couple of my favourites

Light up all the Christmas lights

Penguin show (write your name in snow)