Creative development
Resources
* Dark brown, white, black and red paint * thin card * light brown card made into squares * different sized potatoes * scissors * PVA glue * permanent markers
Step by step
* Invite the children to make handprints using dark brown paint on to a sheet of thin card.
* When these are dry, ask the children to cut their two handprints out.
Younger children may require support in carrying out this exercise.
* Turn the square of brown card so that it looks like a diamond shape and fold it in half to create a triangle.
* Stick the cut out handprints to the folded end of the triangle to make antlers.
* Cut the potatoes in half for the children to use to make prints.
* Provide the children with a larger potato to make a white print for the reindeer's eye.
* Using a smaller potato they can make a black print for the pupils.
* Finally, they can print a round red nose at the point of the triangle.
Alternatively, a large red pom-pom can be stuck on as a nose.
* Encourage the children to write a greeting on the inside of the card.