Project Ideas: Holiday
Be My Valentine Special Delivery
Around Valentine's Day, start a delivery service for distributing Valentine's to students in your school. For a small fee, students can give you their Valentines, or purchase a Valentine, for delivery to friends.
What you might need:
- Construction paper
- Candy
- Mailbox
Candy Cane Reindeer
Create candy cane reindeers with special messages to sell in your school for delivery to friends around the holidays.
What you might need:
- Candy canes
- Red/black felt pom-poms for noses
- Brown pipe cleaner for antlers
- Googly eyes
- Ribbon to tie messages around the reindeer
- Message tags
- Glue
How to make reindeer:
- Purchase all supplies needed (see above)
- Glue nose on the end of the candy cane's curved tip
- Glue two eyes above the nose (about a half-inch above the nose)
- Twist a brown pipe cleaner on top of the candy cane's curve to look like antlers
- Tie a ribbon with the message around the neck of the candy cane
Pumpkin Decorating
Host a pumpkin-decorating contest. For a small entry fee, participants receive a pumpkin, paints and entry into the contest.
What you might need:
- Pumpkins
- Paints
- Rags
- Judges
- A prize (a Halloween decoration, gift certificate to a local restaurant)
- Tables and chairs