Third Grade Christmas Party

Christmas Dice Game
We started the party off with a game.  They played in groups of 4.  We gave them one die, a cup with small marshmallows and a paper Santa print out.  The beard had different numbers (1-6) on it.   They took turns rolling the dice and when they rolled a number they put a marshmallow on the number.  When they rolled all the numbers and Santa's beard was full, they got a prize.

 This gave us some time to set up for our next activities: 

Photo Booth
And we did a photo booth, since they spend so much time together all school year I thought some fun pictures together would be fun: Even Kyla's teacher got in on the pictures. 

I made the photo props using paper and my Silhouette cameo.  

 Christmas Sugar Cone Trees
 We let the kids all decorate a sugar cone to look like a tree.

We ended with cupcakes and Capri Suns that our parent helpers brought in.

First Grade Party

I was just a helper for this party and took on the game, but I snapped some pictures, so I will share some other parts of the party, too.

Game: (my part) 
Pin the nose on Rudolph

Treat Activity:  Sugar Cone Trees

Craft:  painted and glittered cd ornaments

Sand and Shells Ornament

Since we vacationed as a family at Bear Lake this year, I made an ornament with some sand and shells we collected there. 

Christmas Teacher Gifts

Christmas gifts for teachers this year.  I personalized a small cutting board and let the kids pick an apple from the Chocolate Factory.  I bagged the apples in a colored red and green bags then placed it on the cutting board and cellophaned it together.  I let the kids decorate their own tag and address it to their teachers. 

Vinyl on Gift Bags

I found that vinyl makes for a quick and easy way to dress up a gift bag:

Little Nativity

Made one for me and a few for gifts:

Idea from: Dandelions and Dust Bunnies

2013 Letters to Santa

Letters to Santa this year, made simple with this free printable. 

Printable found here.

Favorite Things Christmas Party

I have wanted to do a favorite things party of quite some time, so I finally did it---and I did it Christmas themed.  It was so much fun!!  There was SO much fun and laughter.  13 moms, away from their kids in a festive environment.  And it was just a party, no selling things or fundraising or pressure.  Just great fun! So here's what I put together:

Invites:
Simple, just printed them out on my printer....

Banner: (and of course the house if decorated with Christmas and a huge tree in the room, so I didn't need much more for decorations)

Refreshments:
Veggies and my Favorite dip
Fruit and one of my favorite dips
A festive Holiday drink
And Chocolate cupcakes with a cream cheese peppermint frosting

And of course the exchange of favorite things:

**I was going to take a picture of the table when everyone had their items on it (and also of the party itself, but I'll admit I was having a great time and forgot)  But there were some great things!

Prize:
Whipped up some festive cutting boards/trivets to give as prizes to the 2 with the highest points (and one went to the person with the lowest points...just to shake things up)

Seriously thinking about having another Christmas Party next year!!!

Grinch Hand Sanitizer

We went a little Grinch crazy this year, but my kids were excited to have this fun hand sanitizer sitting around :

Grinch Mugs

Love how these turned out!

And then the kids wanted Grinch mugs, too....

Santa Cutting Board

I vinyled this cutting board for Christmas.  Now to decide how I want to use it...simple decoration, serving plate, trivet....

Little Red Bucket

Found this red, metal bucket at the Dollar Tree.  It was plain red, so I added some snowflake and "JOY" to it for Christmas.

Christmas Sandwich Containers

School lunches got a little festive: