My son's 3rd grade class is doing a Secret Santa. All last week they have been leaving happy notes for their chosen person. All the kids picked names out of a hat and Evan picked Emily. On Wednesday they will do their gift exchange at their Christmas party. Evan wanted to make a homemade gift. We decided to make an activity book.
We went on-line and made word searches using their weekly spelling. We also went to Crayola.com and printed up dot-to-dots, coloring pages and a crossword puzzle. We interspersed the activity pages with some blank pages so that Emily can draw (Evan loves to draw and knew that blank pages were a must).
Working as a team we came up with this
Ev chose all the paper colors, and cut all the paper to size.
The word searches use weekly spelling words. We just pulled them from his planner.
Crayola.com was a great source for additional activity pages and
coloring pages. There are also plenty of blank pages for Emily to draw, write or paint on.
This is the card that Evan made all on his own. He stamped the images himself and he used his Cuttle Kids to make the dog.
I love that he wanted to make a handmade gift to give. We really enjoyed the creative process and made a great team.
Because I just dug through my stash and scraps we made this project for basically nothing. Even the wire binding was a cut off from a previous project. Easy-peasy lemon squeezey!
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