For my daughter's holiday/Christmas class party next week! Quick, easy and cheap are the only requirements!

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A couple I did with my kids at that age:

wire and bead wreaths: precut green lengths of floral wire(you can buy packages), Wood beads in holiday colors, strips of fabric 1/2" wide by 6" long. I bought fabric remnants and cut them up.

Have the kids twist one end of the wire around a pencil 3 times. Kids can now add the beads in whatever pattern they would like until they have about 1" of wire left. Now they bend their wire in a circle and twist the end at the base of the curl you made with the pencil. Tie a fabric strip at the base of the curl to cover the twisted wire.

Ladybug magnets(this one goes really quick): clear glass floral "stones"-they are used to fill vases, get the ones with one flat side, red construction paper circles cut to fit the size of the stones, black fine point markers, small black sequins, disk magnets to fit the stones, glue.

Kids draw a line down the center of the red circle and put dots wherever they would like. Apply glue to back of stone and to one flat side of magnet. Place red circle on magnet with dot side up. Place stone on top of circle. Take a black sequin and slip it cupped side down in between the stone and the paper circle.

I've also done this one with just plain white paper circles and let the kids draw whatever they want on them with colored pencils. The stones magnify the picture!! My daughter did a pig face that we still use on the fridge at home.

Let them create reindeer food. Just need plastic baggies, oats, some raisins and some other woodsie type stuff and a bit of glitter. Make up a little poem to tie to the bag when they're done and they can open and spread the "food" Christmas eve.

Luvs are probably more multi culturally oriented.
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I love all the ideas! I think I'll try the glass bead one for their Valentine's Day party and go with Reindeer Food and decorating candy canes to look like reindeer for this one! Thanks for the ideas!

We just had a family craft night and the students got to decorate ornaments. A popular ornament we did was we bought CD's/DVD's the kids traced them onto construction paper and glued that to the front part of the CD. Then they decorated the clear side of it with glitter glue. Thread colored yarn through the CD hole and they had a cool ornament. We found this one the crayola websit. Hope it helps.

Sorry this is too late for a class holiday project, but you could stil make one for grandma before Christmas. Cut a piece of 2x4 about 3" long. Buy a coil of 16 gage drop ceiling wire at Home Depot and cut 3 or 4 lengths about 8" long. Coil the end around a pair of large needlenose pliers a couple times to make a tight coil. Drill tiny holes in the end of the wood and glue in the wires. Decorate the wood and you have a photo (or Christmas card) holder. This is adapted from the PTO Today Family Arts and Crafts NIght kit...can't take credit for it.