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lollercauster · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Inside-Out NYC

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I am doing Christmas today and all day tomorrow, so any ideas for decorations etc would be cool. Preferably something easy, consisting of paper and...paper...and glue. I managed to do Halloween with just these types of stuff I found online, but finding simple stuff for them to do for Christmas is proving to be more difficult. Any ideas? Snowmen...cut out...cards...umm.... Tree decorations... errr... I don't know.

Help?

Bayden · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 988

Why not wait untill Christmas.

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Outside a bank in our estate a sign wishing you "Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year" is still adorning the door in the middle of July, 2006

lollercauster · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Inside-Out NYC

I'm at a summer camp and today is Christmas. That's just how it is. Now I need ideas for gifts.... Cheap stuff. One girl said she wanted a teddy bear...this is expensive stuff.

It's a "cultural" activity.

Sweetie Girl · Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

Don't know.if.thisis.too.late.buuuut.paper.rings.are.nice.and.easy.....abouuuuuuut.gifts.a.penorpencil.with.a.paper.bow......sorry.for.allthe.dots.my.space.bar.is.broken.

lollercauster · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Inside-Out NYC

Well, I know one girl wanted that teddy bear...but that's hard to get. I was looking for stationary with a teddy bear on it...but no such luck. So I got some cute stationary for the girls and some other things like that. two decks of cards...I'm giving a few of the guys the dollar bills I have. American money for the win. Some change to another. The girls I like get a picture. I might feel bad later and give the rest a picture of us too. Umm...they keep hounding me for my QQ number, so I'll give two of them that. Which will undoubtedly be passed aroudn eventually anyway. I need a few more guy gifts. Damn those guys.

orangiey · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 217 Location: UK

can U get them to make Xmas cards etc?

Super Mario · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:57 am Post subject:

Good thing this is job related, otherwise it would have been removed.

mondrian · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:11 am Post subject:

If you are doing this at a summer camp, it all depends on the ages of your pupils.
Do you have access to the Internet?
For the very young: getting them to make Xmas cards and then stringing them together makes for good decorations
For older: Print out a bit of Charles D*ckens (His surname is recorded as a beep!!!!!) and read the Christmas Carol story out to them. Then there are many activities: in teams or as individuals: give them a pencil and paper and get them to draw your emotional narrative; or chalk (boardmarkers) and draw on the board as you narrate. Then post their results around your room (or area).
Always reward the conscientious students (even if they can't draw!), with stickers, candy or make a Chart of Excellence and give (your) hand-drawn Certificates at the end of the Camp.

lollercauster · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Inside-Out NYC

Yeah, they had certificates to hand out. I did my own thing with them. We were instructed to pick 1/5th of the kids to give them out to each time so that by the end, everyone got one. But I'm not a communist, so homey don't play that. I ended up giving one girl two certificates, one for English and the other for Halloween, because she was so good at the decorations. The class started an uproar, mainly this one girl in the back who didn't get anything. There were other foreigners in the group who were so keen on not offending any of their students and making sure to be "fair." Fuck that. The kids were 12-14, they can handle failure. When they don't get into college, they'll know why. I can handle a few girls yelling, "it's not fair! she have/has two!" The smart ones said has. They dealt.

KES · Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 722