These Christmas ornaments can brighten your child’s room or your entire home in several ways this season. Christmas Tree Ornaments This easy decoration can be done anywhere or any time you need little fingers and minds to be busy during this season. • Print out the pages on card stock • Provide crayons or markers for your child to color the ornaments and bird faces • Help your child, if necessary, cut out the ornaments • Ask your child to write his or her name on the back • Optional: Encourage your child to write an “I Believe” statement about Christmas such as, “I believe Jesus was born for me” or “I believe angels are real” or whatever comes to your child’s mind • Use a hole punch to create a hole at the top • Attach a yarn or twine loop to the hole to hang on the tree

Option: To preserve them for years to come, laminate the cut out ornaments at a local copy shop. Tip: wait until after laminating to use the hole punch. Share a picture of your child’s creations. Post a picture to facebook.com/iesodo Sun Catchers These colorful decorations delight. Light up your breakfast table or personalize your child’s window this Christmas. • Print on transparency flm (available at most ofce products store) • Provide markers for your child to color the ornaments and bird faces • Help your child, if necessary, cut out the ornaments • Tape to the window with the marker side facing the room

Option: suspend the ornaments by yarn or twine from the ceiling. The turning ornaments will bounce the lights around the room. Tip: tape a paperclip to the bottom of the ornament to give it some weight. Iesodo Christmas Wreaths Hang these fun decorations on your child’s door to mirror wreaths on the front doors of homes. • Print out the pages on card stock • Fold a plain white paper plate in half • Cut a circle from the middle of the plate • Flatten the plate (Tip: if making several, write the child’s name on the back of his or her wreath) • Ask your child to tear green construction paper into little squares. (Tip: Put a bowl on the table and ask your child to put the squares in the bowl) • Put newspaper under your child’s place at the table • Help your child, if necessary, pour school glue all over the paper plate ring. Use a lot and make it fun • Ask your child to sprinkle the green squares all over the glue • While the glue dries, have your children color and cut out the bird faces only • Help your child, if necessary, drizzle glue on top of the green construction paper • Have your child place the bird faces around the wreath • Let the wreaths fully dry • Hang Maggie

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