Wednesday, December 8, 2010

12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas Tree

We made this fun 12 days of Christmas Tree to hang up in our house to help our son learn the popular Christmas song.  I also thought it would give us a great opportunity to work on counting and number recognition.  
You can do a google image search for "12 days of Christmas"and come up with all sorts of pictures you can print.  Ours came from http://www.12days.com/library/12dayscoloringbook/default.htm
Things you will need:  scissors, crayons, printables, green and yellow construction paper, glue

It took a couple of sittings for him to finish the coloring...
 While he colored, I made the tree by glueing together 4 pieces of green construction paper.  Then I folded, started at the bottom and wiggled my way up the the point at the top. 

 For the star, I drew the star...
 folded it in half....
 and cut.
 After he was done coloring most of the pictures, I cut them out and started at the top and glued each picture on.  I then took a sharpie and wrote the number on each picture.

 He loves going to look at his work, trying to sing the song and laughs hysterically at "5 golden rings".  Its been a fun project, that I plan to save and pull out each year!

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