PROJECT A: HOLIDAY, HOPES AND WISHES

Materials needed:

• Silver paper
• Boxes
• Tape
• Ribbon
• Wreath ( or tree branches, bulletin board, tree, display area etc. )
• Pencil
• Paper
• Hot glue

1) Students writes wishes and hopes for their families, friends, mankind or Earth on paper.
Then choose the most important ones to enclose in the box.

2) The notes are placed into the box (any small box).

6) The boxes are glued on the wreath and a bow is added.

PROJECT B) CARING AND UNDERSTANDING

Materials needed:

• Paper and Pencil
• Wreath (or tree branches, bulletin board, tree, display area etc.)
• Hot glue
• Glitter

Each child writes wishes for their family, friends, society or Mother Earth.  (It is amazing, how empathetic and loving the student responses were.)

Wishes can include cures for cancer, jobs for all, money for the homeless, ending global warming, parents getting back together, improved family togetherness, health for the sick, etc…

Attach wish paper to wreath.

• Write Christmas or holiday words on each finger of the wing.
• Draw eyes on both sides of the head.
• Make 2 cuts on the remaining finger and fold back. This will be the tail.
• Add a string in the middle of the dove (between the two sides) and staple.
• Staple or glue with the string.
• Glitter is optional.
• This dove is a hanging ornament.

Materials needed:

• Paper plate
• Glue
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Ribbon
• Stapler

Cut a hole in the paper plate. Trace and cut hands

Curl fingers and Glue around the plate

• Add ribbons (staple)
• Add red circles for berries
• If desired, add ornaments (doves) and glitter