The other day I let Princess pick out books for us to make crafts with, and she ran off and happily grabbed a huge stack of Christmas books and thus was born this particular homeschool Christmas lesson.
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I went through them all and picked out Animal’s Christmas Carol, because I love the illustrations in it.
Isn’t that gorgeous? And that’s not even the best one in Animal’s Christmas Carol. I mean it gets a little silly when the lion is asking what his gift can be, but still it’s an amazing illustration.
After reading the book I pulled out stacks and stacks of Card Stock {I like the Sam’s Club card stock}, some Ticonderoga Pencils (my favorite type, I swear they don’t break as often), Cake Markers, and a few dozen cotton balls.
While they gathered, I cut the card stock into random sizes of paper, for the different sized animals.
Then I passed out sheets and they started drawing animals. I gave some instructions, but otherwise, it’s all their own works. If you’re kids aren’t too keen on drawing on their own, or you want to work on that skill, here’s a few places to check out:
Art Projects for kids (I love this site for simple line drawings)
After we’d drawn about 5 or 6 animals, I was thinking they were losing interest, and I suggested we stop.
So they gave me this face, who can resist that? Though it looks like Princess is threatening to hit me. And Superman in the middle….. Oh well.
We drew several more, and then had fun setting them up with our Playmobil Nativity Set {this price sucks, I got mine for $30, so keep an eye out for better prices}.
For more Christmas crafts, I highly suggest checking out my Christmas pinterest board.
I love that last picture, too! That looks like it was a fun Christmas-school activity. The book looks beautiful.
The pictures are so gorgeous. It just makes me happy to look at them.
I like that you added them into the Nativity set…great way to retell the story!
It really was, it was so much fun to do.
(This was actually supposed to be published on Monday, but oh well).
I love the camel! I bought that same nativity for my kids this year, and it was great! I discovered that Kohls sells Playmobil, and you can use 30% off coupons to buy them!
I adore this Playmobil set.
I didn’t know Kohls sells Playmobil.
It looks like a great book. When I asked Anna once to pick a book to make a craft with, she just looked at me funny.
That doesn’t surprise me.
I love that camel!! That has got to be, hands down, the best camel drawing I have ever seen! You need to frame that and pop it up on the wall!
It is fun, isn’t it?
What a great Christmas activity!
Thanks! It was a lot of fun to do.