Holiday Activities
Christmas is around the corner - we have put together some activities and ideas for you to enjoy during the holidays.
What to do on Christmas by Carla 5S
There is a lot to do during the Christmas Holidays. Read on to find some ideas!
Christmas is an amazing holiday that many people love! It is fun, you can go to parties but, sometimes those parties can get a bit out of control ... You can go ice skating, which can be fun but, if you're not careful it can be a bit dangerous! Another idea is to build a gingerbread house and decorate it with icing and sweets! You can also make different Christmas decorations and decorate your house and tree!
Delicious treats - Food. What better thing to do than eat food? Well, don't just go out to buy something, isn't that a bit boring? Desserts are so tasty, so why don't you bake one? You should try baking a candy cane cake or mince pies - delicious!
Movies - Time for watch some Christmas movies! Why not watch 'Home Alone', 'Spirited', 'Scrooge', 'Klaus', 'The Grinch' and 'A Christmas Carol'. There are so many options to choose from.
I hope you all enjoy your Christmas Holidays.
Santa's Jokes:
Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
A: Frostbite.
Q: What do you get when you cross an archer with a gift-wrapper?
A: Ribbon hood.
Q: What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
A: Snowflakes.
Q: What do you call Santa's Helpers?
A: Subordinate Clauses.
Q: What does the gingerbread man put on his bed?
A: Cookie sheets!
Q: How does a sheep say Merry Christmas?
A: Fleece Navidad!
Q: Where does a snowman keep his money?
A: In a snow bank!
Q: What do you get when you combine a Christmas tree with an iPad?
A: A pineapple!
Q: In what year does New Year’s Day come before Christmas?
A: EVERY year!
Q: What did one Christmas tree say to the other Christmas tree?
A: Lighten up!
Q: How does a snowman lose weight?
A: He waits for the weather to get warmer!
Q: What did one snowman say to the other snowman?
A: Do you smell carrots??
Q: Why does Santa work at the North Pole?
A: Because the penguins kicked him out of the South Pole!
Q: What falls at the North Pole and never gets hurt?
A: Snow!
Q: What do you call a reindeer who wears earmuffs?
A: Anything you want! He can’t hear you!
Games:
Answers at the end of this page - do not cheat
Recipe:
Snowman biscuits
Ingredients:
125g butter, softened
125g golden caster sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
250g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
For the decoration:
400g white fondant icing
Icing sugar, for dusting
100g pack mixed red, yellow, black and blue ready-to-roll icing
Tube white icing, for sticking
Tube black icing
Method:
STEP 1 - Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour and mix to a fairly soft dough. Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently. Put the dough on a plate, cover and chill for at least 2 hrs.
STEP 2 - On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of around 0.5cm. Use a cookie cutter or water glass to stamp out 7cm rounds. Re-roll the trimmings and repeat.
STEP 3 - Transfer the biscuits to two lined baking trays and bake for 8-14 mins until the edges turn lightly golden in colour. Leave to cool.
STEP 4 - To decorate, roll out the white fondant icing on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Stamp out 7cm circles using the same cookie cutter or glass as before, then use a dab of the white tube of icing to stick a fondant round on each biscuit.
STEP 5 - Knead together some of the yellow and blue icing to make green icing, then do the same with the red and yellow icing to make orange (alternatively, buy separate packs of each colour). Roll out one icing colour at a time. Stamp out a 7cm circle of icing, cut in half and stick on for a hat. Cut a strip of another colour and make some markings to make it look like the elasticated band of a hat, then trim to fit and stick on. Repeat with all the biscuits, mixing and matching colours.
STEP 6 - Decorate the hats with icing spots and stripes, if you like. Roll out balls of coloured icing, poke holes all over with a cocktail stick and stick on as pom poms. Mould lumpy balls of the orange icing for noses and roll out balls of the black icing for eyes. Press down to flatten, then stick on with white icing. Use the tube of black icing to pipe rows of dots for the smiles. Leave to set. Will keep for up to five days in an airtight container.
Crafts:
Christmas Stained-Glass Windows
A colourful Christmas craft. You need to copy colouring book type pictures to use.
Follow the steps listed:
1 - Wrap a paper plate or cardboard the size of the desired picture with aluminium foil that has been crinkled up. (unfold it carefully so it doesn't tear) Tape foil to the back.
2 - Tape the pictures to the work table.
3 - Tape a piece of clear saran wrap over the top of the picture.
4 - Outline the picture with a black permanent marker.
5 - Use permanent markers to color the picture.
6 - When the picture is finished, wrap the saran wrap around the foil wrapped board and tape it down.
7 - Hang with colored yarn.
Dough Ornament
Make bread dough. Do all the steps as if you were making bread (rising, punching down and rising again after the bears have been shaped). Then, the fun stuff. We make 'teddy bear' ornaments which can be kept for years. Here is how:
Get a 'ball' of dough about the size of a tennis ball or smaller. Cut it in half. One half is for the round body. The other half gets 'halved' again. Half of the half, (or quarter) is for the head (we are into fractions here now). Make the head nice and round. Using a tad of water, join and pinch. The 1/4 left is now halved again. One of the 1/4s is for the two ears. One of the 1/4s is for the four paws (the bear is facing you, 4 paws toward you). Use cloves for the eyes and the belly button and a little piece of roundish dough for the snout. Put a hole through the top by inserting a paper clip before baking. When baked, allow to dry gradually, otherwise they will crack. Put a towel over the trays of bears. When dry, they should be sprayed with a shiny acrylic and they look like they just came out of the oven and are 'buttered'. Put a little ribbon around the neck and you have darling ornaments.
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