Don’t throw your Christmas cards away – transform them in to games, decorations and art with these 10 fabulous ideas
Make a jigsaw (above)
Mosaic picture frames (above)
Layered Christmas trees (above)
Use your Christmas cards to play with these ideas for Christmas card jigsaws and a Christmas card memory game.
Happy Christmas from NurtureStore!
We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with your children.
Thank you so much for reading along with us this year. We love reading all your comments and had enjoyed all the posts you have linked up to our Play Academy. We’re looking forward to lots more play in 2011!
with love from Cathy, B and L xxx
We’ll be back next week with some ideas for making the most of your left-over wrapping paper and Christmas cards, as well as ideas for making thank you cards.
Enjoy your festivities!
QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here
Are you all ready for Christmas? I hope you’ve remembered to whizz up some reindeer food! And you know Father Christmas likes a little snack too.
These gingerbread Christmas trees are perfect and the children can keep busy decorating them while you get on with your last minute preparations.
Download the Play Academy’s ready-made Nativity Unit and you’ll have everything you need to lead a set of activities to introduce your children to the Nativity story.
This Unit includes artist-drawn puppets/colour-in nativity scene characters and printable Bible verse cards, that your children can use year after year.
In this Nativity teaching unit your children can:
:: learn about the Nativity and create their own Nativity book or small world scene using colour-in puppet / nativity scene characters
:: learn about Mary and Joseph’s journey, and explore junk modelling
:: learn about the shepherds role, and explore loose parts
:: learn about Jesus’ birth
:: learn about the three wise men, and complete their book / re-tell the story in their small world
The Play Academy’s thematic units come with practical printables that make the lessons more engaging for your children and easier for you to teach.
No need to go searching for printables to accompany your lessons, they’re all included when you download your chosen unit.
In this Nativity Unit you’ll receive these bonus printables:
:: My Nativity Story book to write, colour and complete to tell the Nativity story
:: a set of artist-drawn My Nativity Puppets to colour, cut out and use to re-cap and act out the Nativity story
:: Nativity Vocabulary Cards to recap and consolidate learning
:: Nativity Bible Verse Cards to read, narrate your own acting out of the story, and perhaps to memorise
You can download this unit along with over 50 more from NurtureStore’s Play Academy.
If you are already of the Play Academy, you can download this unit straight away from our Library here.
If you are not yet a member, find out more and choose your first unit here. Your teaching is about to get a whole lot easier!
We make stained glass gingerbread every year because they’re so pretty and smell wonderful. Use this tutorial from our archive of Christmas play ideas to make them. They look beautiful hanging on the Christmas tree with the tree lights shining through, and also look great hanging in the window.
