Need preschool game or craft ideas...
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Need preschool game or craft ideas...
Hellooo... I am responsible for coming up with the game or craft for the preschool Christmas party. I have been looking online for ideas, but thought I would see what ideas I could get from the Mom's / teachers here on the board too. This is a class of about 12 4yo's. Oh, and we only have 1 hr for the party. Any ideas...
TIA!
When my daughter was in preschool they made a reindeer out of their hand/food prints.
Their footprint was done in brown on the center of the paper. That made the body.
Their hand prints were done at the top of the footprint to form the antlers.
They glued on wiggly eyes and a red pom-pom nose.
There is fast dry paint that you can buy for kids. But, if you have a lot of other things planned for the party, this might be too big of a project. It sure was cute though 
You might want to check out michaels. I think I saw 12 pack of christmas foam kits for not much money.
12 christmas hats foam to decorate for 9 bucks. I don't know what shipping is....
http://www.orientaltrading.com/otcweb/application?namespace=browse&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=link.itemDetails&demandPrefix=12&sku=57/2060&mode=Searching&searchDestinationJSP=/search/searchMain.jsp&erec=0&D=foam%2Bdoz%2Bchristmas&event=button.search&Dx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&namespace=search&Ntx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&Ntt=foam%2Bdoz%2Bchristmas&N=0&origin=searchMain.jsp&Ntk=all
One game that the kids always enjoyed was sticker Bingo. It took us about a week to make this game, but the kids loved it a lot.
Rayanne, could you give me some more info on the Sticker Bingo? I am also looking for a game for 12 4yos for their Christmas party next Friday. TIA
OK -- first of all thank you all so much for the ideas!! I went to bed early last night (exhausted from this long week). Then had to get up early this morning and go to the middle school for a pancake breakfast/ Christmas Concert the band performed. (my 7th grader plays the trumpet--it was wonderful they have improved sooo much since 6th grade I was almost in tears! They are growing up too fast. Next yr will begin marching band. sniff sniff)
OK, now I am back home and trying to get this preschool party squared away. Then its off to *finish* my shopping. I have to finish it today! (i had to give myself a deadline or i will keep shopping up until Christmas eve! lol)
Blake's class *loves* to play Bingo -- they did this before their Thanksgiving feast and at Halloween I believe. So... I guess I need to do something different for this party. 
I thought of musical chairs with Christmas music.
Handprint Reindeer ornaments
And I found a cute game online called *Stuff the Santa*. Its a race. The kids draw candy canes to determine who gets to be Santa and dress in the XL suit. The class would divide up into 2 teams (i am thinking girls against boys) and then they see who can stuff the most balloons into santa's suit. It sounds silly and easy. So I am leaning towards this game. LOL
Also, I saw online *pin the nose on Rudolph*. Cute.
Tunnia, two cute crafts I saw were making wreaths out of string licorice and life savers candy (i think blake and I will do this at home for fun). And Making wreath ornaments out of puzzle pieces (painted green before the party). Family Fun magazine had alot of ideas (many were too time consuming for this party and too many steps for this age group I think. About.com had several cute ideas as well.
I was hoping to make snowmen or santa's with them, but I think the santa game above may be more fun since they can get up and move their energetic selves around a bit after all those sweet treats they'll be eating.
Thanks everyone!
Feona-- I am going to check out that site right now! Thanks for posting it.
Breann~ Our family got together last year before Christmas and did that reindeer painting except we did it on white long sleeved t-shirts, not paper, it was SOOOO Cute!!!
That is a very cute idea.
We took poster board and cut it up into I think 8 squares. We then drew 4 lines across and 4 lines down to form a grid and then we just put on stickers. We kept a sticker for the calling pile too. I hope this helps.
Gosh every party we go to now has face painting and tatoos. They are really cheap to do. But you need volunteers to man the stations. Oriental trading too.
We were at the children museum. They read Lars the polar bear.
Did a craft with
Cut out white mountains. Cut out 2 bears already. White cotten for the clouds. white Paint in little cups for the falling snow. You could do little cups of glue and paint brushes for the glue. Cheaper...
Also they had a man dressed up as a polar bear.
Anyway it was a huge hit, I thought.
But you are right it is alot of work to set up for 12 kids.
Are you having a person dressed up as santa? Maybe a santa craft. Like again those foam things because they are so cheap.
These games are cute.
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/party.html
Feona, I havent looked at Oriental Trading in yrs!! They had so many neat things. Thanks for posting that.
Thanks for the ideas. I may have to run to the store to get the stuff for Sticker Bingo today.
Not a problem. Have fun!!!!
I'm late but in case someone else is looking for an idea.
Take a plastic plate and glue a sugar cone upside down on it. Then you have the kids take green icing and cover the sugar cone. Now you have a Christmas tree. Then you can take sprinkles and jelly beans and other candy to decorate it.
I can't take credit for this one but my son loved doing it in his daycare class.
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