On this page we have created a collection of printable resources which may be used to create crafty presents and cards:

• From practitioners to the children in their care

• From children to their families

We hope you find some useful inspiration!

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FREE SAMPLE RESOURCES!

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These templates (9 designs included) have basic or detailed outlines of festive shapes to be used as a starting point for an art activity.

The outlines can be coloured, painted, or collaged to create an individual poster design to be given to a child’s loved one. At the top of the poster is space for a festive message!

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Use the following ‘New Year Calendar’ templates to create an incredibly useful gift from a child to their family member(s). The child can not only give their family something which will be useful for the whole of the coming year, but also personalise it to make it a very sentimental gift. Especially as families will be able to look back at this gift in years to come and see what their child had made for them for a specific year and therefore how old they were.

There are so many different options for personalisation…a drawing of the child and their family, a hand or foot print, something the child hopes to do during the year, finger painting, use of craft materials to make a festive picture such as crumpled up tissue paper balls to make a snowman or Christmas tree, a festive message, a short sentence or word, e.g. ‘To mummy and daddy, I love you!’

3.

Use this acrostic poem template to create a Christmas gift from children in your care to their families. You may like to work one to one with a child to develop their understanding of initial sounds and scribe their ideas for them.

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With the aid of the following border sheets, encourage your child(ren) to make marks, draw pictures or even write a short sentence or story for their families. For example the child could:

• Do a drawing of themselves with their family.

• Write a short sentence such as ‘I love you.’

• Create a hand or footprint in paint with the date written by it to look back at in future years.

• Make up a short story (with an adult’s help). The adult could then write this down. The child may want to draw pictures to illustrate.

• Use craft materials to create a festive picture.

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Perhaps your children would like to colour or use art and craft materials to decorate the pictures in this pack of ‘Nativity Story Sequence’ colouring sheets. They could then be read with the children and placed in order and even presented in a book format as a gift to family members.

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Use any of the following colouring sheets as the basis of a festive gift from children to their families. The children may like to add their own messages which an adult could scribe for them.