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DIY Homemade Recyclable Christmas Gift  Wrapping Ideas For Kids

5/12/2019

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 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.

This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.

This year, as a family of four, we are keen to keep unrecyclable store bought Christmas wrapping paper waste to a minimum, so we had great fun with friends getting messy and being creative, whilst educating our 12 and 10 year olds that Christmas needs to be more homemade, like in the 'olden days' as they call them! 

We purchased a 100m roll of recycled brown paper, for £15.00 ( around $20). 
Along with some inexpensive poster and acrylic paints, we gathered up our festive stampers and some wine corks and old toy building blocks to print with.
We also used polystyrene pizza bases to make print blocks, by scratching into them with a sharp pencil.

Our 10 and 12 year olds painted and printed for over two hours with their friends and were really experimental - so were the adults. No phones were on, we just listened to music, chatted and had a great time!

Here are some of our finished one metre long wrapping paper artworks!
​Some of them remind me of Klimt - it must be the gold and silver metallic paint.

​I'd love to hear back from you if you give it a go!
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
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 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
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 This DIY homemade printed Christmas gift wrap activity for kids of all ages, using recycled brown paper, really got us into the festive spirit, and in a small way, we can feel we are making a difference.
For further Christmas ideas, free printable coloring pages and teacher/homeschooler lesson plans, visit my Christmas and New Year pages 
Browse my Teachers Pay Teachers Store for over 100 seasonal detailed resources.

Happy Christmas all!
Diane 
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Christmas Activities -  Free Printables

11/12/2013

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Are you looking for some festive Christmas projects to do with your children?
Take a look at my free downloads page where you'll find lots of printables, colouring activities, cards and more.
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Creative christmas Countdown - post 5

15/11/2013

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Make Beautiful Origami Christmas Baubles

Do you remember making origami 'water bombs' at school - paper balls that you folded from a square, blew up and filled with water and threw at someone in the playground?? (I do!)

Well, they also make lovely decorations - try using diffrent types of paper, brown paper, sheet music, pages from an old nursery rhyme book, national geographic magazine. Younger children will need help - after you've made a couple, it seems alot easier! 

Click on this Activity Village link for great step by step instructions.

I have worked with patients in their hospital beds making these baubles, here's a selection below......
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Twirly dangly earrings for littl'uns! ( and trees, and penguins )

10/10/2013

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This is a really cheap, fun and simple project, suitable for preschoolers upwards.

You'll need 4 things:

coloured straws
pipe cleaners
scissors
string


Cut the straws into 'beads', thread them on to the pipe cleaners - great practice for little fingers. Twirl the pipe cleaner into a spiral and tie a length of string or ribbon on - 
ta-da.....hang them on your ears!
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Cut up a selection of coloured straws into beads - use a deep bowl if you can, they go flying everywhere like popcorn!
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Isla made a lovely pair of pendants for her handmade felt penguin!
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We made them outdoors at Wood School this morning and hung them in the trees
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We've hung ours on a chest of drawers, they are really cheerful!
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Outdoor Learning with Leafy Letters!

26/9/2013

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“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple...” 
J k Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows



Today at Wood School........

What a great time of the year to be outside, exploring and collecting from the forest floor! Acorns, sycamore 'helicopters', berries, beechnuts, conkers, leaves turning beautiful shades of red and orange.......
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All you need for this project.....
1. some large sheets of cardboard - write the letters on with a marker pen
2. add PVA glue to the letters
3. Find a group of enthusiastic children and invite them to forage for mosaic materials and stick them down! The children at Wood School wanted to do the first letter of their names, resulting in some healthy negotiation of claiming the more popular letters!
4. For making the name signs below, we used smaller pieces of cardboard, and punched two holes at the top for the string.
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