You can also have students decorate a jar to keep the slime. This fun game is a Christmassy-take on a classic. Assign each student the name of a famous holiday character or symbol. Students must ask each other yes or no questions to determine who or what they are. Alternatively, you can do just three students at a time and have them stand with their backs to the interactive whiteboard and write their names on the board. To read more about interactive whiteboards, click here. If you have gifts for your students, you can hand them out during your party.
To make your celebration even more fun, you can set up a hot chocolate station, leave them a letter from an elf or Santa, or check out reindeercam. You can also film the party on camera and then watch it together! In this article you will find the best cameras for school. Here are some hints. One of the magical things about Christmas is seeing all the holiday light displays.
Share in this magic with your students by putting together a virtual field trip to visit different light displays. Simply create a slide show that highlights different light displays from exciting destinations, such as Disney World, New York City, and other world cities.
After the field trip, you can encourage students to create their own light display, either by drawing or by using the materials you provide them.
This can work as a nice STEM tie-in as well. This activity encourages students to use their creativity and what they have learned about Christmas and other holidays. They will make up their own winter holiday, choose a symbol for the holiday, design holiday outfits, choose holiday foods, and decide on the special traditions associated with the holiday. There are many short stories that have been written about Christmas. Choose to have students read one or more of these stories and discuss them together.
After students have read a few different Christmas stories, you can also have them write their own holiday short story.
Consider using digital storytelling to allow students to put a more creative spin on their story and integrate videos, pictures, or music into their finished product. Other Social Studies - History. World History. All 'Specialty'. Character Education. Classroom Community. Classroom Management. Computer Science - Technology.
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The kids will love this Christmas party game in which they race to recreate a stack of gifts. All you need to play is some empty boxes, leftover gift wrap, and two chairs.
Participants split into two teams and race against each other to carry stacks of gifts between the chairs without dropping any presents. Playground Parkbench. This Christmas party game for the kids challenges them to toss jingle bells into colorful cups. You can easily modify this game for kids of all ages by varying the distance of the cups from where they throw.
Growing a Jeweled Rose. You'll just need a few supplies, which you probably already have on hand for this Christmas party game: white cups, construction paper, and rolled-up socks. Decorate each cup with a snowman face and then stack them in a tower. The kids take turns throwing the rolled-up socks to the tower to see how many snowmen they can knock over. Snowman Slam from Growing a Jeweled Rose. Put a Christmas spin on a basic game of charades by making all the phrases about Christmas and the holiday season.
This free printable will help you out with quite a few ideas for Christmas charade clues. Just print it, cut the clues apart, and place it in a container so guests can pick one to act out. Kids love to decorate cookies, so turn it into a contest.
Cookie-decorating can be a messy activity, it's an easy one that the kids can jump right into. Give out awards for the prettiest, most creative, most colorful, and best-tasting cookies—though everyone's a winner when they get to enjoy these sweet treats. Don't lose these instructions! Add to your idea list right now! Which is why STEM education is so important during middle school.
If you bring a fun holiday theme into your middle school STEM activities, middle schoolers will love the hands-on aspect of the challenges and see how science and STEM can be fun!
Since middle school has higher standards than elementary school, you will want to make sure that your holiday STEM activities have a point and cover at least 2 types of STEM learning in your lesson.
Christmas labs for middle school should include all elements of the engineering and design process, including:.
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