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Classroom holiday games: Pin the Leaf on the Pumpkin
Cut a large pumpkin out of orange construction paper or poster board. Add a brown stem at the top. Laminate.

Cut leaves out of construction paper and laminate. Put sticky-tack or a piece of tape on the back of each. Blindfold one child at a time, making sure the child can't peek. Ask the child to turn around two or three times, then tell the child to stick the leaf on the pumpkin. See how close children can come to placing the leaf near the pumpkin's stem.

For added excitement, assign point values to various regions of the pumpkin. For instance, placement right at the base of the stem would be 10 pts. Placement within an inch of the correct spot would be five points. Place within three inches would be 3 pts. Placement within five inches would be one point. Divide students into two or more teams. As each child goes up to place the leaf, his or her team mates may give oral directions in the target language--"Go to your right two feet. Higher. Higher. No, a little lower. Now over to your left," etc.

Classroom holiday games: Leaf Hunt
Before children arrive, scatter leaves (real or paper cut-outs) around the classroom.

After children arrive, give each child a small bag. Ask children to search the room for leaves. Tell children to try to remember the places they found leaves. Give them about five minutes (depending on age) to search.

Ask children to take the leaves they've found and return to their seats. Have them count the number of leaves they found. Who found the most? How many leaves total did the children find? What was the average number of leaves each child collected?

How many children found a leaf under something? beside something? on top of something? next to something? (With older children, you might create a bar graph.)

Classroom holiday games: Candy Chase
Fill two pans with flour or powdered sugar. Mix into each pan a couple of rolls of Lifesavers. Place a cup of plastic coffee stirrers or chopsticks next to each pan.

Show children how to hold a coffee stirrer between their teeth, then stick it through the hole of the Lifesaver to "catch" a piece of candy. When a child successfully picks up a piece, he or she may eat it.

Classroom holiday games and crafts: Pumpkin Pins

These pins are festive and easy to make. All you need is some, felt, juice can tops and a little imagination! Remember to use a permanent magic marker if you decide to draw on the felt pin- you don't want your design to disappear : )

What you need:

· Felt
orange, green, black
· Glue
tacky glue or a hot glue gun works well
· Pin backs
can be bought easily at local craft store
· Scissors
· Juice can tops
the size depends on how big you'd like your pin to be.
· Permanent magic markers
· Pencil
a sewing marking pencil may be good here.

What you do:

1. Place juice can top on felt and trace around it with a pencil or sewing marking pencil. You are going to cut TWO of these shapes out of the felt- one for the front of the pin and one for the back of the pin. The juice top forms a stable middle for the pin.

2. Using your scissors cut out TWO tracings of the can top. You can make the circle appear more pumpkin like by cutting a small notch in the circle to form the place where the pumpkin's stem would come out.

3. Using either felt or a permanent magic marker create a face for your pumpkin pin. Do this for only one of the two circles. The remaining circle will be on the back of the pin. You can add the traditional "pumpkin vertical line" with the marker. The pin can be personalized using bits of ribbon, buttons for the eyes etc. Please do all decorated before assembling the pin.

4. Attach face pieces to the front of your pin with either tacky glue or hot glue gun. With the juice top sandwiched in between the two pieces of felt, glue the edges of the felt pieces together. Glue a pin backing onto the back of the undecorated pumpkin (the back of your pin).

Have fun with these great classroom holiday games!

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