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Christmas Ornament Craft and Door Decorating

November 18, 2021 teachersbrain Door Decorating

Are you looking for some simple activities to help your classroom get into the holiday spirit? Use these worksheets to design a door to show Santa on Vacation, make a decorative wall, window, or bulletin board display. Students will create their own Christmas bulbs and write to a prompt.

Christmas Ornaments

First, grab this adorable free printable for students to design their own personalized ornament. Add any art tools with the printable ornaments to make a literacy center. Students will create their own ornament. Included in this download are primary and intermediate writing prompts. Students will write about working for an ornament company with the task of designing an ornament that captures the holiday spirit. Combine the writing with the ornament for a fantastic wall display.

Door Decorating

Door decorations are a must in our schools during the holidays. We always scramble to find something amazing yet, easy to create due to the busy nature of the holidays. I won a door decorating contest. It is always exciting if there is a cash prize involved!

Here is a simple door decoration with Santa “Gone To The Beach” on a well-deserved vacation. The free ornaments used on the palm tree add that extra holiday touch.

Door Decor Steps

Print out the Santa clothes, color them, and use a string to hang the clothes with clothespins. Add some sand dollars for that extra beach feeling. This door decoration includes palm tree parts and the beach sign.

Grab the free Christmas ornament center below.

You can grab the easy-to-use Santa’s Gone to the Beach Door Decor resource HERE.

Holiday Door Decorations for School

Want to look at some more holiday doors? Check out this blog post!

Classroom Jobs EDITABLE Chart Cards

Get your students motivated to help in the classroom with these visual job cards! Primary or Intermediate options to create a wall chart to easily rotate jobs. It’s even editable!

Disguise A Turkey Digital Thanksgiving Activity

November 12, 2021 teachersbrain Teacher's Pay Teachers, Thanksgiving in Kindergarten

November is such a great time of year. Turkeys everywhere, delicious food, and the start of Christmas decor!

As a teacher, it is especially fun because you get to do lots of turkey and Thanksgiving-themed activities with the kiddos.

Students love making pilgrim hats, completing this Thanksgiving escape room, creating turkey headbands, and even performing a Thanksgiving play!

These are all amazing for increasing student engagement throughout November, but one of my favorite activities was always the Disguise a Turkey activity.

Every year, I would have students disguise a naked turkey so it wouldn’t get eaten on Thanksgiving Day. It’s so fun! Students are sent home with the turkey printable and work with their families to come up with creative disguises. We got some cool disguised turkeys! Then students would practice their creative writing skills by writing about them.

It was a hit! But then the pandemic hit, and I was so sad that students wouldn’t be able to do this project. However, I found a way to use Google Slides to provide a digital version with a printables so students would never have to miss out on this fun activity.

So now students can disguise their turkey while distance learning!

This Thanksgiving activity is available on Google Slides

These interactive, editable slides make it easy to have students copy and paste movable parts to DISGUISE a TURKEY!

After coming up with the perfect disguise, they get to write a narrative opinion story about their turkey.

I love this activity because it is not only educational, but it allows students to engage in some creative holiday fun. They’ll get 9 backgrounds to choose from, 6 slides with movable parts, 5 slides for students to brainstorm, organize thoughts, and write a story about their disguised turkey, and black and white slides for students to digitally or handwrite stories.

You can even add some animation and music to it while in Present mode! Afterward, you can print these out to decorate your classroom or make a slideshow so everyone can see it virtually.

Check out the video tutorial here!

How to Make Your Own Snow Globe | Snow Globe Writing | Google Slides

Get your students motivated to write with this GREAT holiday-themed writing activity for your students to help practice their writing skills! A Build A Snow Globe is a great resource for students you want to keep engaged in learning! Great for virtual or in-person learning. Trap a student or a teacher.