How To Draw Santa's Workshop

I love having a project set up for my son when he gets home from school before he gets involved in his own play . Yesterday he arrived home to this simple Santa's Workshop ready. This wasn't a long afternoon of play , but it was xxx minutes of smiles and giggles and pretending he was an elf! He also did some crafting, some deep thinking , reading,  a fiddling writing and of course imaginative play. Recall that your set up need not exist worthy of a Broadway product, just good enough to back up play.

1. Get together your materials. I made 3 stations in this workshop a edifice station, a toy testing station and a wrap station.  My materials included paper bag, gum ( I switched it to a gum stick), scissors, wrapping paper, construction paper, markers , plain paper , a clip board and some toys.
2. For the Duplo Edifice Station I used black construction paper downwards the middle of the table to human activity as a conveyer belt, made simple buildings with the duplo and provided duplicate blocks in containers for my son to build. There is actually a really bully lesson in duplication here. Following directions is an important skill and lego type toys are a cracking way to work on the skills not verbally.
3. The Wrap Station is our craft component – I provided mucilage, scissors, markers , snowflake confetti, wraping newspaper scraps to cut and glue and paper bags.
4. The Toy Testing Station had some reading for him to do , and questions to reply after he tested the toy. I snuck some circumvolve cartoon in too!
5. Think he was excited to run into it? He said to me " Do I really get to pretend to be an elf? Actually?"
6. Getting into the elf character .Building the duplo !
7. Making the souvenir bags.
8. All wrapped upwardly.
9. Off to test a toy.
10. Exam results.
11. Happy, busy and at the North Pole … at to the lowest degree in his imagination!

Santa Book

How Santa Actually Works by Alan Snow is a great volume to continue with this activity. The book is styled as an expose about how Santa and his many many elves get all the piece of work for Christmas done. I will caution you lot now that this is a long volume, with even longer asides. I made my son head up to bed with me and the book early inorder to get it read and still have time to chat nigh it afterward. I beloved the "insider" experience about this book and and then did my son. There were many asides thta fabricated both of us giggle especially the comment about how many requests Santa gets for ponies each year. I loved that it encouraged kids to write to Santa but I have to say I sorta miss that it didn't include much about magic. Still I can't tell you how much my son loved this book ( I knew he would) and how impressed I was when he asked me if I thought this was how it worked. That opened a great give-and-take about how we imagine the N Pole and how stories andmovies are just one person's imagination and no one knows the truth . This is a completely secular view of Christmas too so if you are looking for a religious volume this is not for you but you can effort these ones.

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