Christmas Around The World Party

Friday was the Christmas Around The World party at school. Madeline had chosen Mexico, remember the poster she was working on in an earlier post. Here she is dressed like a little senorita.


The auditorium was set up with tables/stations from other countries for the kids to move from one to another and get to try foods, play games and do crafts for each country. They each had little passports with their pictures and birthdates on them and each table stamped their passport to show they had traveled there. It was really cute.

Here is Madeline at the food table where the kids sampled wares from each country. Since we had Mexico we had to bring in cinnamon tortillas.

At the England table they made snowmen out of rice, cotton stuffing, tube socks and buttons. Complete with felt scarves. Too cute! This little guy is now part of our holiday decorations at home.

At the Israel table they played the dreidel game. Here is Madeline spinning her dreidel. They made the dreidels out of milk cartons with pencils pushed through them and spun them on the eraser end. Very cute!

More dreidel spinning. I was the parent in charge of this table so I had to learn how to play and memorize the Hebrew symbols pretty quickly! ha ha

At the China table they made Chinese dragons out of masks, accordion paper and straws. At the U.S table they made bear ornaments out of sandpaper pieces. At the Mexico table they made poinsettias out of construction paper, sequins and glue. There was another country table there but I don't remember what it was. All the kids left their shoes in the classroom and when they got back they had gifts in their shoes like they do for Christmas in Holland.... I think, or maybe it's Russia, anyway.