Make the Cutest Holiday Card for Christmas!

Looking for a cute classroom craft for this Christmas?  Try this easy Fingerprint Holiday Craft... Your families will LOVE it!

The first step is to draw a squiggly line on a sheet of white cardstock with a Sharpie marker.  Then add little squares for the bottom of the lights.   Make enough squares for all the kiddos in your classroom. Your paper should look like this...

You have a couple of options for this next step.  I chose to do it the "easy" way and use paint markers from Crayola instead of paint.  You could also use watercolors or tempra paints but it will much more messy!  It's up to you really.

If you choose to use markers, color the students fingertips like this:

Then press their fingertips onto the squares you drew with the marker.  Spread different colors out to make it more festive.

Lastly, add the text of your choosing to the paper.  You could use Merry Christmas or From Room 201, or whatever you like.  I chose to use Happy Holidays, because not all families celebrate Christmas.

You could also print the cards in black and white and students could color the fingerprints with markers if you'd like to save on copy costs.  Either way, this will be the cutest craft for your class this Christmas!

I'd love to hear your comments or about what crafts you do for the holidays in your room...

Until Next Time Friends,

The Messy Desk Police

This week we've been exploring ways to keep our kiddos on top of keeping their desks clean.  Today I have another method that seems to work if the more positive method we learned about yesterday doesn't work!

 Most of the time, I will hand these out at the same time as the Clean Desk Fairy Coupons, so at least everyone has something on their desk.  I feel bad some days...But not all the time!  I have to keep telling myself that we, as teachers, are for some of our students the only "mothers" they will have.  So if I have to teach them how to keep organized then so be it.  It will make my life easier in the long run; spending the last day of school with two garbage bags cleaning out desks could be avoided if some students kept up on their desks being organized!

Below are some more tickets you can use for those desks that are not up to your clean standards and need to have a warning from the Dirty Desk Police!  Copy them out on bright blue or red paper for a dramatic effect.  I sometimes even make them stay in at recess to clean it up to my liking.  OOOWWEEEE, you're in trouble if you get a ticket!

Click Here to Download These Tickets!

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I hope you're all having a wonderful day!