We had a great party! We started out with the Christmas story. Then we made bracelets where each bead represented a part in the Christmas story.
yellow or gold -- Angel that told Mary she was going to have baby Jesus
light blue -- Mary
gray -- donkey that Mary rode to Bethelehem
brown -- manger that Jesus laid in
white -- Jesus
clear or star -- the star that led the wisemen to Jesus
purple -- 3 wisemen who brought gold, frankinsence and mirrh
green -- the shepherds in the hills that came to see Jesus
We then moved on to a game of hot potato. Only thing was... EVERYONE got a prize! We all brought books wrapped for exchanging. We passed around a book and when the music stopped, the person whose hands the book was in got to open it. Well... we had a few meltdowns when some of them didn't get the books that they brought. They just didn't understand. By the end of the day though, all was good with the world!
Then was the really fun part! We made yummy Christmas trees! We took sugar cones, turned them upside down to make a tree. We then took white icing, I couldn't find the green food coloring so ours had lots of snow on them, and smeared it all over the cone. Then we "decorated" our tree with m&ms, colored sugar, chocolate chips and reindeer corn. Most of them tried a bite of it, one actually ate the whole thing. When finished, all the kids were nice and messy! You know, it was a special occasion. They wash! :)
After running for a few minutes to get some energy out, we moved to the "art" room to make a craft for our families. We made beaded candy cane ornaments. It was so neat to see the smallest ones beading their pipe cleaners. They were all proud of their creatins!
Oh, what is a party without pizza? Of course we had pizza for lunch! It is their favorite!
For snack... round 2 of the junk food! We had sugar cookies with icing, cupcakes... sugar, sugar, suger!
Before lunch we also decorated our treat bags. While they were sleeping we put their gifts in their bags. They included... the Frog Street Press cds of colors, shapes, numbers and the alphabet as well as candy! So, now they can sing their lovely songs at home for you all. I hope you enjoy going around singing them in your head all day. Amy and I shouldn't have to be the only ones that sing Elmo the Elephant while we are cleaning. ;)
Thank you all for having such wonderful children! We had a GREAT time!!!!
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