Budget crafts for 4 year Pre K class...

[Jack&Ryan'smom]

DS's teacher just informed me she would like to have 4 craft stations set up at their Holiday Party. We need the crafts to be quick, easy & use as little glue as possible. I got one foam sticker kit at Michael's already.
Any ideas??? I know my Budget Board buddies are always full of great ideas!! TIA!

 

[GoofyGolferGirl]

Get a pipe cleaner cut in half and alternate 2 red ti beads and 2 white tribeads bend at top and make a candy cane ornament. to make it faster we usually have the number of beads counted for each child and pipe cleaner cut and put into snack bags then they can put the finished product back in bag with their name and ready to go home. You can also make a tag to tie around candy cane with childs name and hang on the tree in the room. I think Oriental trading has bookmark they can color and give as gifts to, we tied a ribbon on top and laminated put childs name and date on back. Can make your own and do with stickers if you want. Hope this helps!!!

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

When my DD was that age she made candy cane reindeer, just need a candy cane, googly eyes and a brown pipe cleaner. Food Lion actually has kits for these this year, but I'm not sure if it's cheaper to go that way or buy the material individually.

I like the ideas GoofyGolferGirl had, too .

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

There's always the old standby: paper snowflakes. If you wanted to make them different you could get some different paper like shiny or different prints like scrapbook paper. DS and I made some last night and punched a hole in them, put some curly ribbon through it and made them into ornaments.

 

[Avonlady1001]

My DD4 & I just made clothes pin ornaments for the tree. We used markers to color the clothes pins (paint works, too), then a little glue & red & green glitter...but instead of that they could put a christmas sticker on it. I have one of these from when I was in Kindergarten that clips onto the tree every year. By some miracle the sticker is still on there (btw, I'm 34 now. LOL)

Love the other ideas!! We're always looking for fun & easy crafts to do at home.

 

[redwingfan3991]

Get packing peanuts and yarn, plastic needles and make garland, or get noodles, ( uncooked ) and color them and make garland with those.
To color the noodles, its a little bit of rubbing alchol and food coloring in a bag

 

[Kanga+2Roos]

I'm helping organize my ds's pre-k party as well. One of the ideas I was given was to make bells out of styrofoam cups--buy some cheap bells, tie them to some type of string & have the kids thread them thru the top of the cup where you'll tie them off. Then have the kids decorate the outside of the cup with stickers or markers/crayons--perfect ornament for the tree. I got this idea from a mom whose kids did this twenty years ago & she still has them!

The project I am in charge of is graham cracker gingerbread houses--each one takes 7 graham cracker squares (four for the sides, one on top to hold the sides together, & 2 angled on top for the roof). You can either hot glue them together (as long as the teacher sends home a note not to eat them) or hold them together with Royal Icing which dries like glue. Then I anchor the houses down on a plate & put an upside down sugar cone next to it for a Christmas tree. Take icing to school & have a variety of candy for the kids to decorate their houses & tree. It was a huge hit with my older ds's class & makes an nice decoration for them to take home. Someone else gave me the idea of using a single serve milk carton as the base & covering it with graham crackers--I'm going to try that once the teacher remembers to send home a milk carton.

For a craft & snack have the kids decorate cutout cookies & then eat them. If the kids are doing a gift exchange there is a game called "left-right Christmas" (you can do a search & it will bring up different versions)--basically you read a story & everytime you say right or left they have to pass the present accordingly. When you are done with the story the gift they are holding is the one they keep.

Hope this helps--I'll be watching to see what everyone else comes up with. Can't have enough ideas to keep those little ones busy!