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December Arts & Crafts and Special Days

December Arts & Crafts and Special Days
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Here’s a list of seasonal arts, crafts, activities, ideas and more for the month of December.

DECEMBER 1

Eat a Red Apple Day
Try this: ► Make an Apple for the Teacher

Pie Day

Try this: ► Painting Sweets

Rosa Parks Day
(Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus on this day in 1955)
Try this: ► Box of Crayons

World AIDS Day

High Five Day

DECEMBER 2

Artist Georges Seurat’s Birthday, 1859
Try this: ► Dot to Dot Seurat

Try this: ► Pointillism Corn

Special Education Day
Try this: ► Visit our Special Education section

DECEMBER 3

International Day of the Disabled Person

Roof-Over-Your-Head Day

Try this: ► Find Architecture Lessons for Kids

First Successful Heart Transplant, 1967
Try this: ► Mosaic Hearts
Try this: ► Heart Mobiles
Try this: ► Heart Blottos
Try this: ► Broken Hearts
Try this: ► I Give you My Heart

DECEMBER 4

Cookie Day
Try this: ► Watermelon Cookie Recipes

Wear Brown Shoes Day
Try this: ► Painted Shoes
Try this: ► Shoe Fish

World Wildlife Conservation Day

Try this: ► Animal Art Lessons

DECEMBER 5

Walt Disney’s Birthday

Volunteer Day

DECEMBER 6

The 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) was passed on this day in 1865

Mitten Tree Day
Try this: ► Make Snowfolks

DECEMBER 7

KinderArt Andrea’s Birthday!

Cotton Candy Day

Pearl Harbor Day (Pearl Harbor was bombed on this day in 1941)

Letter Writing Day
Try this: ►Help your child learn to write well

DECEMBER 8

Brownie Day

DECEMBER 9

Mathematician Grace Hopper’s Birthday, 1906
Try this: ► Beautiful Numbers

Christmas Card Day
Try this: ► Make crackle cards

DECEMBER 10

Poet Emily Dickenson’s Birthday, 1930

Human Rights Day

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded

DECEMBER 11

Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on this day in 1620
Try this: ► Pilgrim Dolls

Noodle Ring Day

Unicef was established on this day in 1946

Mountain Day
Try this: ► Landscape Resist Painting

DECEMBER 12

Poinsettia Day

Gingerbread House Day

DECEMBER 13

Cocoa Day

Violin Day

Hannukah Begins
Hanukkah (Chanuka) is a Jewish holiday celebrating religious freedom. ▼

HANNUKAH MENORAH CRAFT
During this festival, a candle is lit at the end of every day. Traditionally, each candle is placed in a Menorah.

DECEMBER 14

Monkey Day
Try this: ► Monkey coloring page

South Pole Discovered, 1911
Try this: ► Penguin Sculpture
Try this: ► Penguin Coloring Page

DECEMBER 15

Lemon Cupcake Day

DECEMBER 16

Beethoven’s Birthday (born in 1770)

Chocolate Covered Anything Day
Try this: ► Chocolate Spots

Las Posadas Begins
Posadas is celebrated from December 16th to 24th in Spanish and Mexican communities.
Try this: ► Posadas Craft

DECEMBER 17

Maple Syrup Day

Wright Brother’s Day
(First airplane flight took place on this day in 1903)
Try this: ► Transportation Activities

DECEMBER 18

Bake Cookies Day

DECEMBER 19

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published on this day in 1843

Oatmeal Muffin Day

Try this: ► Make Oatmeal Clay

DECEMBER 20

Go Caroling Day

Play a Game Day
Try this: ► Folk Art Checkerboards

DECEMBER 21

Look at the Bright Side Day

National Flashlight Day

First Day of Winter
Try this: ► Winter Crayon Resists
Try this: ► Winter Wonderland Trees
Try this: ► Make Snowflakes
Try this: ► Snowflake Printing
Try this: ► Winter cut-out pictures
Try this: ► Winter Cookie Pops
Try this: ► Color the Snow

Try this: ► Winter Arts and Crafts

DECEMBER 23

Roots Day

Festivus

DECEMBER 24

Apollo 8 reached the moon on this day in 1968
Try this: ► Sculpt a Planet

Egg Nog Day

Christmas Eve

DECEMBER 25

Christmas Day
Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. Modern traditions have come to include the display of Nativity scenes, Holly and Christmas trees, the exchange of gifts and cards, and the arrival of Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. ▼

CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY CRAFTS
Find over 40 fun and easy Christmas craft ideas for the entire family.

DECEMBER 26

Boxing Day
Try this: ► Make a collage out of used wrapping paper

Kwanzaa Begins
Kwanzaa is a 7 day festival that begins on the 26th of December and it celebrates the ties that bind traditional African customs to the cultural history of African American and Canadians. ▼

KINARA CRAFT
You can make a Kinara (a seven branch candlestick) as a way of celebrating Kwanzaa.

KENTE CLOTHS
Students will learn the history of Ghanian Kente Cloths as they practice using geometric shapes to design their own Kente Cloth strips. From Amy Shapley.

DECEMBER 27

Visit the Zoo Day
Try this: ► Animals Paper Collage
Try this: ► Make animal masks

Make Snowflakes Day
Try this: ► Make snowflakes
Try this: ► Snowflake templates

DECEMBER 28

Chocolate Day
Try this: ► Chocolate Dip Sticks
Try this: ► Nilly Dillyicious Pops

Play Cards Day

DECEMBER 29

The bowling ball was invented on this day in 1862

DECEMBER 30

Let’s Make a Deal Day

DECEMBER 31

Artist Henri Matisse’s Birthday (1869)
Try this: ► Meet Matisse
Try this: ► Shamrocks and Matisse

New Year’s Eve
Try this: ► New Year’s Eve Crafts

CELEBRATE ALL MONTH

December is…

Focus on Art Month

Hello Neighbor Month

Read A New Book Month

Stress Free Family Holiday Month

Safe Toy and Gift Month

Write to a Friend Month

Recommended Products:

Snowflake Craft Kit (makes 12) Snowflake Craft Kit (makes 12)

Make a paper snowflake as unique as you are! A beautiful, timeless craft. Kit includes 12″ diecut snowflakes, sequins, markers and instructions.







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