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Elf Selfies to Gingerbread Houses to Grinch Acts of Kindness to Elf on the Shelf (& more)...this post will make your Christmas door decorations easy peasy!

Elf Selfies to Gingerbread Houses to Grinch Acts of Kindness to Elf on the Shelf (& more)...this post will make your Christmas door decorations easy peasy!

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I've made it a tradition each year to show you an outline of my plans for Holidays Around the World in my classroom. EEK! I'm excited! I know to always give myself more time than I think I need because we somehow fall behind. That's why I don't do any countries on Fridays (except when we do Gingerbread Houses for Germany). That way, I can catch up on anything I want on Friday. This lesson plan template is also available in my pack! Something I wanted to add in my unit was a complete EXPERIENCE that the students get! Play the sound of an airplane taking off, dress like a flight attendant, pass out the in-flight snack, and fasten your seat-belts! The WORLD AIRLINES will take off in 3, 2, 1. These informational reading passages are EVERYTHING! It's nice to have all of the key points right there on one sheet of paper. Remember, in my pack, there is such a variety that each year you can change it up! You don't have to do all of the countries each year. The wonderful part about being the boss of applesauce is that you decided. With my new update of my pack this year, I've included more writing components and supplementals. It's JAM PACKED! Each country also has a reading passage to go with it so you can stop googling each country right before you "teach" it to your students (I'm talking to you Carly, hahah). I've also included links to websites and books.... so I have pretty much done all the work for you. You're welcome. Kidding!!! ;) Kind of. Here's a picture of just some of the extensions included: Ok, ready to take a look? The best deal is the BUNDLED pack (which includes 13 countries). Or you can break it up and buy JUST Part 1 or JUST Part 2.

Want some ideas on how to make inexpensive but large candy decorations for Christmas decorating, Candy Crush Saga Party or candy-themed birthday party? The decorations featured here are in Christmas colors but could be easily changed for other occasions or events. The main "ingredients" in these candies are insulation foam in a can, disposable plates and bowls, wrapping paper and paint. There are other brands of this type of product too...they give similar results for craft projects (although that is NOT the purpose of the foam). The foam will stick to anything it touches including floors, kids, pets and you until it dries. Keep the kids and pets away and protect yourself and your floors. Spread out enough paper for the whole project to begin with. After you start releasing the foam from the can, you need to keep going because it can dry up in the nozzle quickly and clog the tube up. The foam sticks to the newspaper too. That means that your foam shape will have a newspaper back. It can be painted or covered. You could use wax paper to release the foam onto but I thought that would be too expensive. If you are doing this project outside, use objects to hold the paper down in case a breeze blows up. If the paper blows up on top of your foam shape before it has hardened, it can ruin the look of your object. It is better to make your foam shapes when it is warm. Out of necessity, these shapes were done on a cool early morning...they may have gotten puffier if I could have waited. The plan was to make spiral lollipop shapes on sticks with the foam. I really did not like how they were turning out. It took lots more "rounds" of foam than I thought it would. Plus, the stick was making a bump in the foam. In trying to think quickly (before the foam dried on the paper and in the nozzle of the can), I grabbed a few Dollar Tree plastic bowls to cover up the less-than-desirable lollipop shapes. Well, maybe the biggest foam disasters could become Tootsie Pops instead of swirl-y lollipops in "Plan B". To make more "Plan B" suckers, I tried to make a foam circle about the size of the rim of the plastic bowl with dowel included in the foam to be the sucker's stick. After placing the rim of the bowl in the foam ring, a mound of foam was added to the bottom of the bowl to try to round it out for more of a ball shape. On the next foam shape, I also added a vertical foam squirt to add support and adhesion for the dowel. In addition to the sucker shapes, I formed some foam rounded rectangular shapes that would become giant Jolly Ranchers. Here's what four cans of spray foam insulation yielded: The foam shapes take about 30-45 minutes to get a semi-firm shell. Depending on how thick the foam shape is, it takes longer than that for the whole shape to be fully dried. Some of the swirled lollipop shapes were not too bad so they got left as is (plus I didn't have anymore cheap bowls). I didn't want a lot red objects (I AM an Auburn fan...too much red makes me nauseated...it's a University of Alabama color) so these lollipops got spray painted a base color of green. For the lollipops that did not have a dowel incorporated during the foam squirting process, a dowel was pushed up inside of the foam after it dried. You can also use acrylic paint to color the foam. This sucker took two coats of each color. OK...I will admit it turned out to be one of the best even if it is mainly red. The green lollipops had red stripes added with paint. To help the "Plan B" suckers have a more rounded shape, my friend and neighbor, Debbie (a well-organized person who actually already had up her Christmas decorations and offered to help me execute my giant candy ideas) had the good idea to fill in the gaps with rolled newspapers held on by tape. After the rounding out with newspaper, the Tootsie Pop got a wrapping paper covering... ...that was cinched at the base with a thin ribbon... ...then taped down on the sides. We didn't worry about a messy tape job because it won't be noticed when the clear basket wrap it added on top. We also didn't worry about a messy tape job on back since these suckers will be mainly viewed from the front. Wider packaging tape was used in hopes that it will withstand the weather these suckers will be subjected to. Trim the wrapping paper into a pretty skirt. Make the clear basket wrap covering longer than the paper if you are going to use these outside so it can be kind of an umbrella for the wrapping paper. Tie on a pretty bow (wired ribbon is best). To show how another foam shape turned out in case you want to try it instead, here is a shape that was formed more like a bee-hive by adding foam from the can on in circles on top of each other. It did not need a bowl or any enhancements. These foam shapes can be trimmed with a serrated knife after they are dry. The cut areas do not paint well, however, so keep that in mind when trimming. Here's how the bee-hive foam sucker turned out with the wrapping paper and cellophane wrapping applied: The painted lollipops got a spray of clear coat to help protect the finish and then a cellophane wrapping too. How to make the smaller "mint" shaped candy in these photos is described further down in the post. Above two photos by Weston Markwell The "Plan B" Tootsie Pops ended up in the urns on the front porch. A couple of things that I would do differently on them next time is to use thin PVC pipe for the sticks ( instead of wooden dowels) and I would not add the extra mound of foam on the bottoms of the bowls. It actually hurt the rounded shape instead of helping it. Above two photos by Weston Markwell The candy canes in the urns came from the Dollar Tree. The Tootsie Rolls' sticks were just inserted into the dirt already in the urns. White "snow" sheets, inexpensive tinsel, and picks made from decorative basket wrap were all used to try to hide the dirt. Nothing really looked good until I got a really fluffy tinsel garland from Michael's on sale to cover the base. So far, the pops are holding up well even in the rain. The smaller mint-type and Jolly Rancher-ish shapes were even easier. The mints were made from disposable plates (some plastic some paper) being joined together along their rims with glue. Since these are going outside, I used Super Glue. If your candy is going to be inside, regular glue is fine. Put the plates together so they bow out on each side. Place a small object on the plates to hold them together while the glue dries. Another option to make the mint shape is a solid foam shape. This one came from the Dollar Tree along with a twin...so each circle is fifty cents. More expensive than a plate but more sturdy. If you want the wrapping paper to extend into the flared ends of the mint, allow plenty of paper on the ends. To give your mint a more authentic look, also wrap the form and paper in clear basket wrap or cellophane. If you mint is going to be outside, make the cellophane extend well past the wrapping paper so that you can fold it back in to protect the paper. Our cellophane was not long enough to accomplish that so we layered it and covered the seam with packaging tape. Gather the paper and cellophane close to the round shape and tie the gather with ribbon, pipe cleaner, etc. It was easier to fold the cellophane back inside the wrapping paper end if both the paper and cellophane were taped shut into separate tube shapes. Another option for the mints is to paint the plates. Weston, Debbie's son, was a good enough sport to come help out with making the giant candies. It's embarrassing to ask a guy with a degree in Industrial Design to paint pie slices on a paper plate...such a waste of talent...but aren't they wonderful? These don't have to be two colors but I did that to further the bright green and red color scheme for the front decorations. These were then just wrapped in clear cellophane leaving enough on the ends to create flares. I didn't want to risk Weston's work being ruined out in the weather so I used them on the mesh garland on the covered part of the porch. To attach them to the garland, a floral wire was twisted onto the ribbon tie. The paper plate mints are so lightweight that the wire could be threaded through the mesh poufs... ...and then twisted on from the back. Less time-consuming mints were made in a similar fashion but the plates were just covered with a paper that carried out the color scheme and then wrapped in cellophane. This is the backside of the mint Even easier mints to go with a party color can be made by purchasing plastic plates that have the color on the bottom, gluing them together and wrapping in cellophane. The mints wrapped in paper are going out by the mailbox so they need to stand on their own. They got dowels glued onto their backs. The green mint has a patterned cellophane on it. If I get a chance, I might paint the mints' sticks green to blend into the evergreen foliage. The Jolly Rancher shapes were made similar to the paper- covered mints. The candy land Christmas decor may be a bit much but after a couple of years of subdued white and snowflakes in the front yard, I was ready for some fun and color. Weston is also a very talented photographer! The above four photos are ones that he took for me. Many thanks to him and his mom, Debbie, for helping me get this project done before Christmas!

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