Hand print Christmas tree

09 days till Christmas so weeks amazing art is a hand print Christmas tree.

Step 1: Dip your hand in paint and print onto a peace of paper. You should print 9 in the shape of a pyramid.

Step 2: Get a star shaped, red card as a star and put on the top of the tree.

Step 3: Get a brown, long shaped card as a trunk and put underneath the tree.

     If you get stuck, maybe copy the picture below.

* Credits to isockphoto.com

Penguin

 11 sleeps left till Christmas. This weeks awesome animal is a Penguin.

Facts:

Scientific name: Speniscidae

Lifespan: 15-20 years

Length: 10 to 12 inches

Height: 14 inches

Diet: Krill, Squids and fishes

Fun facts:

Penguins have flippers, not wings.

Penguins cant swim.

Penguins have an unique call each.

Gingerbread men!

 This week, i will show you how to make gingerbread men!

Ingredients

225g plain flour, extra for dusting

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 heaped tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp cinnamon

50g unsalted butter

100g soft brown sugar

100g golden syrup

Instructions

Step 1: Heat oven to 190C/ 170C fan/ gas 5 and line a baking tray with baking parchment.

Step 2: Sieve the flour, salt, bicarb, ginger and cinnamon into a large bowl. Heat the butter sugar and syrup

until dissolved. 

Step 3: Leave the sugar mixture to cool slightly, then mix into the dry ingredients to form a dough.

Step 4: Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 mins.

Step 5: On a surface lightly dusted with flour, roll out the dough to a 1/4- inch thickness.

Step 6: Stamp out the Gingerbread men shapes with a cutter, then re-roll any off-cuts and repeat.

Step 7: Place your Gingerbread men on the lined trays, allowing space for them to spread.

Step 8: Cook for 10 to 15 mins, then remove out the oven and leave to cool.

Step 9: Decorate your yummy friends.

* Credits to joyofbaking.com and bbc good food

Elf spoon art

16 days to go to till Christmas so this weeks amazing art is an Elf spoon.

Step 1: paint the handle green 

Step 2: at the top of the handle, add two buttons

Step 3: on the head of the spoon, draw a mouth, add to googly eyes and a pink pom pom as a nose eyes and a mouth

Step 4: make a hat out of green card and add white fluff to the hat

Step 5: add the hat onto your elf

* Credits to thebestideasforkids.com

Reindeer facts

 This weeks awesome animal is a Reindeer.

Facts:

Scientific name: Rangifer tarandus

Lifespan: 15-20 years

Length: 1.8-2.1 cm

Height: 85-150 cm

Diet:  mosses,  herbs, ferns, grasses, and the shoots and leaves of shrubs, trees and carrots

Fun Facts:

Some Reindeer actually have a red nose.

Reindeer live in a lot of countries.

Reindeer live 40% in snow.

* Credits to shutterstock.com and wiki

Christmas jokes

 20 days to go till Christmas so today i will tell you 10 Christmas jokes.

1. What type of bug hates Christmas?

    a humbug!

2. Where do Santa's Reindeer stop for coffee?

star bucks!

3. Why does everyone love Frosty the snowman?

     because he's cool!

4. What do snowmen eat for breakfast?

   snowflakes!

5. Who is Santa's favourite singer?

Elfis Presley!

6. What two countries should the chef use when he's making Christmas dinner?

Turkey and Greece!

7. Where do snowmen go to dance?

the snowball!

8. What do fish sing during the winter?

Christmas corals!

9. What do Santa's Elf's learn at school?

the Elfabet!

10. What do you call Santa when he stops moving?

Santa pause!

* Credits to istockphoto.com and scoutlife.org

Christmas pine cone art

Merry Christmas.This weeks amazing art is pine cone art.

Step 1: find a pine cone

Step 2: paint it green and ad colourful dots as baubles

Step 3: add a yellow star

Step 4: wait to dry

* Credits to pjsandpaint.com