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Christmas creeps up on us each year it seems quicker and quicker each time, and each year we have to keep the children happy and pleasantly occupied in new and interesting ways. That cardboard box your two year old found so interesting (more than the toy that came in it!) may not suffice as years go on and children start out having parties and want interactional games with fun, excitement and gifts! (Of course!). Here are a few great, fun Christmas actions for kids that will make their holidays! 1. Pass the Parcel An oldie but still a goodie for kids aged in regards to 3-8 years. Wrap a little gift in a great deal of layers of spare gift wrap, cellophane, newsprints or old magazines. Have a lot of suitable Christmas music ready to play and get the children to sit in a circle. Give the gift to the original child and get them to pass it to the next kid to their left or right as long as the music keeps playing. Every now and then stop the music and whoever has the box gets to strip a layer off. It is best to stop the music to let each child have a probability to tear a layer off letting them all have a go at it! The child who tears the last layer off gets the gift of course. Gift layers – In this variant put a very little gift in each layer such as a cookie, a little flat toy or something similar. This means each child who strips a layer gets something so no one feels like they have lost! Gift giving – Instead of letting the child with the gift take a layer off, they choose somebody else in the circle to have a turn. This may give hope or courage to gift giving behavior, it is aweinspiring how numerous kids are so sweet and choose the child who has not had a turn yet to open a layer! 2. Gift steal Don’t be affrighted of the name of this game it is not actually stealing gifts! In this action sit the children in a circle and have a gift for each child. How the children get the gift may likewise be fun, let them come up one at a time and choose the parcel they like the look of most maybe, or give each child a random number and call them out one at a time to get a gift is more random. If you do not mind a bit of a ruckus notwithstanding you may just call GO and let the kids run up and grab ONE gift and go and sit back down, this may get out of hand though so beware! Once each child has a gift you then give them a probability to “steal” a gift off another child replacing it with their own. This interchanging of gifts may also be done in multiple ways, from spinning a bottle, to the random number game or passing a ball around like the primary game and when the music stops grant that child to interchange a gift (this way you may make sure all the children get a turn). This game is a little rowdy as the children may all want a sure package (the biggest!) but the excitement it generates is surely a lot of fun! 3. Team Christmas jigsaw This action requires two or more teams and has a few variants. You need a few squares of cardboard you paste the words “Merry Christmas” on and surround it with Christmas stickers and pictures to make it look interesting. You then cut the board up into squares, triangles or other odd shapes depending on how difficult you want to make it. Do the same sections on all jigsaws for fairness of course! You now have a Christmas jigsaw! You may do a few things with this. Spell off – In this game the kids take it in turns to pick a piece of the jigsaw out of a box (randomly). Take it in turns amid each team and give each child a prospect to pick a piece. The challenge is to spell out the “Merry Christmas” before the other team. The team who wins gets a little prize! Timed Jigsaw – Again more rowdy! However this is a outstanding fun game that inspires teamwork as well! Put your jigsaws in boxes and when you call GO empty them on the floor and let each team undertake to put the jigsaw together as quickly as possible. The team that assembles the jigsaw firstborn gets a prize! I hope these Christmas actions for kids have given you a good deal of ideas to keep your children pleasantly occupied at parties and aid build the Christmas spirit! Merry Christmas all!
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful. LET’S STICKER AND PASTE is a very fun book containing 39 projects. We have worked through most of them. Projects 1-16 are double sided and involve using the enclosed stickers to finish the project. Projects 1-6 have the child freely use the stickers to make a playground scene, pasture scene, bugs on leaves, birds in the sky, a safari scene, fish in an aquarium, etc. Two projects have the child use stickers to dress the boy for winter play, and to decorate the girls apron. And the remaining have stickers the child places at a certain place to cover over the white area on the carrot, apple, orange, cucumber, etc. This is good preparation for being careful and learning correct placement. Projects 17 on use cut outs (parent cuts the objects out) for the child to place and glue onto the picture. I recommend using a glue stick or, our favorite, a ZIG brand glue pen. It’s smaller applicator makes applying glue so easy for the child. We bought ours at Walmart in the scrapbooking department. Projects 17 on are printed on one side of the page, and involve the child pasting parts over a watermelon, the face on a horse or fox, the nose on a koala, the beak on the duck, the eyes, nose, and mouth on a panda and pig, etc. Some include 3-D type glue ons, such as a strip that sticks out to be the monkey or hippo’s mouth, or the chick’s beak sticks out. These are all very simple, and the results are statisfying! Projects 30 and 31 have the child gluing candles and decorations on a cake, or toys into the toy box. Pages 33-37 have the child glue the missing half on the frog, the plane, or they have 2-4 pieces to glue on like putting the missing squares in to finish the picture. And these are pictures of fire trucks, diggers, boats, etc. The last 2 projects are letting the child dab glue over the sky and sprinking on small cut out squares (the parent cuts these) to make snow falling on the snowman, or pink squares will be blossoms on the cherry tree. This book is lots and lots of fun that will provide parents and children with meaningful time spent together. It would make a great gift (along with a glue pen!) for the child who seems to have everything. I also recommend the other 3 books in this series: LET’S CUT PAPER, LET’S COLOR, and LET’S FOLD. I am reviewing them all, plus the other Kumon books. Enjoy! 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. These Kumon books are great in theory, however, there are only a few actual “sticker” pages and the rest need to be cut out and pasted. Here is my problem with their cut and paste sections – They say on the page the cutting should be done by a parent. And the cutting is serious precision cutting, like pairs of socks and tiny shapes. Even the circles are a bit difficult because you can’t really cut a perfect circle in such a hurry. And I say “hurry” because my daughter starts to lose interest as I am spending so much time cutting out shapes! The Gakken cut and paste books have large blocks at the foot end of the page so you an easily cut just a few straight lines. These Kumon books put the objects randomly in the middle of the page so you have to cut into each page and literally cut out objects like shoes and animals (with lots of dips and turns). I love these books in theory but they require too much work on the parent’s part! 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. |
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