Christmas Bulletin Board

Fireplace with Stockings

Don't Feed the Reindeer.

Singing Reindeer

Merry Christmas to All

Students enjoyed working together to make this snowy village scene. It was easy for students to create by making houses from construction paper cut into rectangles, squares, and trapezoids. The stars, trees, and snowmen were all cut outs from the Ellison Die Cut Machine. Students colored and pasted small pieces of paper on the shapes and then glued them onto the background for the quick fun project.

Christmas Lights

The students enjoyed the Jack-o-Lanterns project so much at Halloween, the same concept was used to create this Christmas bulletin board. In this project, students created descriptive paragraphs about Christmas lights. Lift up the lightbulb covers to see the student-written descriptions. You could expand this idea by having students make different shapes and write descriptive paragraphs about each. These could include stockings, reindeer, sleighs, or Christmas ornaments.

Expand the writing activities to include stories. The shapes could have multiple pages that flip like a book. Imagine a stocking shape with an entire story about a family's Christmas morning, beginning with seeing what Santa left under the tree to opening gifts, and finally going through the stocking to find small treasures.

Another possibility is for students to research seasonal topics and write short reports. Examples might include the first Christmas tree, customs in other countries, the origin of the "elf on the shelf," or the hidden meanings behind a specific Christmas carol. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.