: Classroom Decorating Ideas for the Holidays
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When the holidays come, you may want to decorate your classroom appropriately. How you decorate it may depend on the type of school you are in (i.e. a religious private school may decorate with much more religious themes than a state public school). There are many ideas to consider.
Decorate for Hanukkah
You will find a wide variety of Hanukkah decorations at stores like Target and of course online. You can put up a menorah in the room or have children make pictures of them to hang. A lot of children like to see dreydals during this festive holiday and you can put up pictures of those as well. You may put up signs that say “Happy Hanukkah” or put up the written lyrics from popular Hanukkah songs like Oh Hanukkah.
Decorate for Christmas
There are many Christmas decorations, and you will see aisles of these at many major stores. You can put up stockings with the children’s names on them. They can make them themselves as a craft or as an art project from paper. You can also put up a Christmas Tree in the room. The children can make ornaments out of paper, clay and other materials. Santa Claus is a popular subject of many children. You will find many posters and cutouts of him at a wide variety of stores as well as on the Internet. You can also show him on his sleigh with all of the different reindeer ahead of him. You can put up wreaths. The children can use green construction paper and art materials like markers, glitter, beads, sequins and crystals to decorate them. You can hang up garland throughout the room. You can even string up Christmas lights all around the room. If you are a private Christian school then you might want to get more religious and put up a picture of a Nativity scene.
General decorations
In many classrooms, they are limited by what they put up since they are state funded. A lot of people just do general winter decorations for the holidays. For instance, you can have each child take some white paper, fold it up and cut it. When they unfold them, they will look like snowflakes and make a nice decoration for your classroom. You can also put up general holidays signs such as “Happy Holidays” and “Seasons Greetings.”
Decorating for the holidays can be fun and festive. Use the above ideas in your classroom.
Updated On: 09/18/2010 Published On: 09/18/2010 Article ViewerClose
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