Holiday Art Show

• This activity will keep kids busy for days. Suggest to your child that he hold a holiday art show. At his art show you can display his holiday arts and crafts to invited guests. For extra fun, your little artist could even sell his pictures to guests for a bit of extra spending money.
  
  First, your child should create some art. Supply her with lots of construction paper, markers, glue and scissors. You might make suggestions about what your child could create, and encourage her to make lots of pictures to display.
  
  Next, invite friends, family and neighbors to your child's art show. Most will probably enjoy spending some holiday time celebrating your child's artistic talents.
  
  On the appointed day, help your child display his art work at the kitchen table or in the dining room. Put some in frames and hang some from clotheslines. Put little price tags on any items that are for sale. Serve holiday cookies and milk as refreshments. Let your child present his art by telling the guests what each one is about.
  
  

Craft Recycling Day

• Kids love to recycle things. Create a neighborhood holiday recycling co-op for kids. Give kids a week's advance notice of your upcoming co-op. Tell your kids to save empty plastic bottles, paper towel tubes and whatever else they'd like to contribute to the recycling day.
  
  On your recycling date, have kids bring their recycled goodies to your home or community center for a day of recycled crafting. Ask other parents to provide extra supplies like yarn, scissors and glue. Decorate your home or community center with some holiday decorations and play seasonal music. This green activity may become an annual favorite.
  
  

Holiday Plays

• Help your kids transform your living room into a playhouse. Hang a sheet and set up a stage where your children can be the stars of a holiday show. Make a mini play from your child's favorite holiday story. Or encourage your child to write her own play ideas using holiday themes.
  
  Be creative with the lighting and plays some background music to set a Christmas or Halloween mood. Involve the entire family by giving everyone a part to play. Spend an afternoon helping your child draw some pictures or make paper chains to hang from the backdrop sheet. Invite family members to come watch your family production. Serve popcorn and cider to guests for snacking during the play.