Show your favorite holiday event on a personalized gift bag. Decorate these handy bags for treats on any special occasion!

• 1.

  Not only do individual countries have unique Christmas customs, but within regions families have created their own traditions. Share family and international Christmas traditions with your classmates. Then choose a holiday scene to decorate a gift bag.

• 2.

  On paper, use Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils and your imagination to sketch and write about your favorite holiday traditions or memories.

• 3.

  Illustrate your favorite observance on a slick, nonporous white paper gift bag with Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils. To accent your drawing, use the eraser. For example, draw and color a green tree. Erase areas where garlands and ornaments hang. Fill in spaces with bright colors.

• 4.

  Highlight your gift bag with Crayola Glitter Glue. Air-dry your bag before you share holiday treats or fill it with gifts.

Standards

• LA: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• LA: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
• LA: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
• LA: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
• LA: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade level topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• LA: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
• SS: Describe ways in which language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture.
• SS: Describe the unique features of one's nuclear and extended families.
• SS: Analyze a particular event to identify reasons individuals might respond to it in different ways.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.
• VA: Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

Adaptations

• Using the treat bag format, students illustrate a scene from their favorite books on the bag. Include the title and author of the book on the bag. Package the book inside the bag and place it into a box for a grab bag exchange.
• Select a second holiday and research the traditions that surround that holiday. Students decorate an second bag to illustrate the second holiday.