I love glitter!
It is so pretty and sparkly!
If I was still teaching, today would have been
the one and only day of the school year that
I would have gotten out the glitter!
My mom taught her 1st graders how to make
3-D Poinsettias.
If a 1st grader can do it, it should be a cinch
for a 5th grader!
It took me about 10 years to get it down perfectly!
Even though it was November, and before Thanksgiving,
we made them the day before Thanksgiving break.
Here's my reasoning.
1. There would be several students absent,
because they were getting a head start on
Thanksgiving break, as we only went to school
on Monday and Tuesday of that week.
2. Kids were excited to get out for the break.
3. Because of the many absences, each student
was able to make 2 poinsettias.
4. Five days of Thanksgiving Break gave
the glue time to dry.
It was sooo fun!
There was always the kid that stuck their
hand in the glitter. Just cuz it's there.
Almost every student that sat on the benches at the
"glitter table" had glitter on their rear end when
they finished.
Girls are dainty with the glue and glitter.
Boys put their glue and glitter EVERYWHERE
on the poinsettia!
(Therefore, 5 days were needed for it to dry!)
When the vacationing kids returned, they
wanted to make the poinsettias.
Unfortunately for them, I only got the
glitter out one day a year.
(Fewer kids to make a mess)
You snooze, you lose!
And then, I always liked that one day during
Christmas Break when I spent about 10 hours at the school.
I prepped for the Science Fair, and also cleaned.
The kids were great at cleaning before the break.
But, there were the tiny pieces of yarn from pom pom pillows.
The hardened icing from the Christmas Village.
And, of course, the glitter!
(It somehow was the hardest to clean up!)
But, oh . . . look at the final results:
The poinsettias were made into two giant wreaths.
Also, a tree in the hall.
The border around was Christmas lights.
We had a fireplace a former student
(RIP, Landon. And, thanks for your service for
our country!) made. Our laced stockings
hung around it!
We made a Christmas Village for the counter.
This included frosting lunchroom milk cartons
and decorating them.
The kids set up neighborhoods, and wound
Christmas lights through each village.
You can see at the top of picture by the left light,
some silver tinsel. All you had to do was poke
the tinsel up into the ceiling squares, and it held.
Tinsel was draped from the corners and sides
of the the room...thanks (in my later years)
to my custodians.
Steve, Doug, and Dean.
