On Monday we found out that we would be making special Christmas crafts all week. We made a reindeer bag by sticking a face onto a brown bag, colouring it in and drawing around our hands to make 3D antlers. We then put all of our work into this bag throughout the week.
The first set of activities we completed were Christmas song anagrams, which is where you sort the jumbled letters to create a word making the name of a song; some were really tricky and took us ages! Next we did snowflake number sentences and decorated our own stocking pictures with lots of nice patterns. We then made Christmas bookmarks that said 'Merry Christmas' on them.
Next we made dancing Santa's. We had to colour in all of the parts and then when we cut them out we had to put holes in each part so we could fix them together with split pins to make the joints move. We also made special cards in the shape of crackers and they had pictures of our faces in. We decorated the cards with glitter, sequins and felt tips.
We made cone Santa decorations to hang on the tree. These were really hard and exhausting to make because it was really tricky to stick the cone shape together. Once you had made the cone body you then had to stick on his arms, legs, beard and belt.
The final things we made were gingerbread shapes. We had to make the dough by weighing out flour, golden syrup, eggs, ginger, sugar and butter. Then we had to stir it which made us very tired! Next we rolled out the dough and cut into lots of different shapes. When we had finished we baked the biscuits for 10 minutes and after they cooled we could decorate them!
We hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and a happy new year!
By Adi and Owen
