Fun Friday

12 Days of Christmas Game

For our homeschool christmas party I made a 12 days of Christmas game. It was pretty easy to do.

I printed out the numbers 1-12 and then each of the things in the song, calling birds, drummers drumming, etc. You'll need 2 copies of each of those. Then I cut out the printed words and glued them to index cards that I cut in half. You can just write them on the index cards if you want.

I wanted to be able to use the game again so I laminated everything and put velcro on each of the posters and slips with the things printed on them. You could just use tape. I cut a poster board in half so I'd have 2. I glued the numbers to one side of each of the poster boards. Then I laminated it. Then I put one half of a velcro circle on the poster board and the other half on one of the slips of index card.

We had 2 teams of kids racing to see who could get the items in the song in the correct order the fastest. I had 2 posters so I put a picture of a snowman above one and a picture of a reindeer above the other so their teams were the "snowmen" vs. the "reindeer". I had 2 people standing at the posters with the correct answers so they could tell the kids if they were correct or not. If not, they had to keep moving the card around until they got it right. They had lots of fun!

Here is the finished product of the snowman team:

This is a close up of one of the posters so you can see how I did it.