Christmas in 2nd Grade!

School is out! I have had coffee in my pajamas, slept in, gone shopping, wrapped all my presents, and much more.  It is so nice to have a break!  We were very busy the week before with all of our Christmas activities.....

We started the week with a pajama day and a Polar Express party!

Sweet moms sent in Starbucks hot chocolate and popcorn.

My gift to my class this year was a Christmas Flat Stanley book.

After watching the Polar Express the kids did a great activity that went along with the movie.

They had to match up words that were synonyms from the movie and it was a great challenge! 

My husband "Mr. Andy" surprised my class one day and came in to read to them.

They wanted him to read Rock Star Santa.  He couldn't get away before they all asked for his autograph, it was adorable. 

Next was our Christmas party!

The kids decorated gingerbread cookies.

They also had a secret ornament exchange, so fun for them!

 Each year I try and think of something new to make for my teacher friends.  

This year I spotted something adorable on Pinterest and had to try it!

I made Santa hats out of red candy coating, white sprinkles, bugles, and mini marshmellows.

The rest of the party mix had pretzels, peanuts, craisens, chex, and holiday m&m's.

I sewed a felt heart and lines on a piece of paper to go under the lid.

Isn't everything adorable in a mason jar?

Crafts!

I love the three weeks between Thanksgiving break and Christmas break at school.  Everyone is so excited about the holidays and there are tons of things going on! November is full of birthdays and one of those was our adopted teacher- the guidance counselor.  This year I wanted to put together a gift for her that would remind her of our class this year.  I was really pleased with how it turned out!

I bought a planter from JoAnn and added some pink trim.

The flowers were cut out on my cricut and hot glued to skewers.  The skewers were stuck in a foam block with moss on top.

Happy Birthday tag!

My sweet class.

I put these bags together for some teacher gifts for someone at school.

I just cut out their initial on my cricut and used contact paper to attach the vinyl to the cute bags!

 This year at school we had "Boutique Week." Each day of the week different things were sold like Stella and Dot jewelry, clothes, Thirty One bags, and a few other things.

On Friday I sold some of my "Chirping Dog" crafts.

It was a busy week and I did all that I could after school for a few days to pull these things together.

It went really well!

Happy crafting!

Tick tock...

Ooops.  It has been far too long since I have last posted something.  I have taken so many pictures lately but have not found the time to sit down and put them on my computer.  With Christmas right around the corner I wanted to post about the things we have been creating in our classroom this month.  I have two and a half days of school left before Christmas break, there are no words to describe how excited I am!

Scrap wreath hanging on my classroom door

This was made on one of those wire wreath forms and took a long time to make!

Sewed felt leaves and sewed on a big button!

Back view of the wreath

Our tree this month has a new project!  I had not made these with my class before and I loved how they turned out!

My, my how paint chips have changed over the years.  It was really hard to find ones that would work for this project. I ended up getting square ones from Home Depot and cutting them in half so that the numbers were cut off.

At first I was going to punch the hats out on my cricut but I am so glad I didn't. 

I love how each student made their hat different, it made them look handmade. 

We used small brads for eyes, ribbon for a scarf, and buttons down the front.

Simple, cheap, and cute!

We decorated light bulbs and hung them in our two big windows.

The ribbon made it look like they were strung along!

Each year I like to have parents come in and help the class make Christmas ornaments.

We only made two this year but I was pleased with both of them!

We took small clay pots and glued on eyes and a bright red nose!

The eye lashes were drawn on with sharpie.

The adults had to hot glue in the ribbon and antlers.

Christmas card we made for the parents this year.

I am a sucker for anything with a kids handprint.

(The hats were cut out on my cricut)

First we filled the ornament with fake snow.  

Word to the wise- bring lots of funnels to school that day or else you will have a mess all over your room!

Again I love how each student made their snowman look different!

Merry Christmas everyone!