Thursday, November 28, 2013

Holiday Gift Project for Your Students (Freebie)

I really enjoy having the students make gifts to take home for the holidays.  Here's the issue though - the gifts need to fit ALL of my basic criteria:

  • They need to be easy for little hands to make.
  • They need to be inexpensive (the children I work with do not come from homes that can afford to contribute money for project supplies).  I know I will be purchasing all the supplies myself.  
  • They need to be winter themed, not Christmas.  (So many of the little ones I work with will not be showered with Christmas or Chanukah gifts).
  • They need to be a "quick" assembly.  The class I am working with has 30 busy little bodies. Projects can not take too long to assemble. 
  • And of course - they need to be cute! 

I originally saw this last year on 1st Grade Hip Hip Hooray and fell in love with it.  I altered it slightly and created an illustrated step-by-step guide (see below). 

Here you go.  Cute, inexpensive, easy to assemble, winter-themed gifts for your little learners to make.  Here's my version:




It's very quick and easy to go from 8-foot lengths of 1x3 pine boards (less than $2.00 an 8-foot piece) to this little cutie.  

I thank the Dollar Tree for sets of kids socks that are easily turned into winter snow hats.  The socks came 4 to a  $1.00 pack making each hat only 25 cents.  The googly eyes also came from the Dollar Tree, the pack was huge!  


For complete illustrated directions (freebie) , just click here!


Also don't forget to head over to TpT on 12/2 and 12/3.  It's their big Cyber Monday sale.  I'm offering 20% discount and they are adding an additional 8%.  That's right... a full 28% off all my products!

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Click here to head over to my big sale!



Granny (Cindy)










4 comments:

  1. That's a very sweet project, Cindy!

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  2. Thanks for the cute snowman freebie. We are patiently (or impatiently) waiting for snow here in WI.

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  3. This looks so cute! You are so darn creative, Cindy! Hope you had the best Thanksgiving ever!
    Learning With Mrs. Leeby

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