Christmas Activities

A Very Bluey Christmas

IntroductionFor our last summer reading program, we decided to do A Very Bluey Christmas. Since Australia has Christmas during their summer season and the holiday promotes togetherness, we thought it was perfect. Little did we know how popular. We clocked over 400 people for our program. We did a two hour window.
CraftsInside our meeting room, we had all paper and craft activities. All credit goes to my coworker for these picks.


Festive Cards


Letters to Verandah Santa


Ornaments


Puppets


Christmas Crackers


Tree Toppers


Coloring Sheets
Scavenger HuntTo help break up the crowd, we had a scavenger hunt in the children’s department. Once the kids returned their sheet, they received a sticker and a free McDonald’s French Fry Coupon.

Outside Activities We are very fortunate to have a large lawn space. We ended up using a chunk of it to create an outdoor play area. This was my brain child area. I crafted a “creek” in honor the creek epsiode. We put out water tables, buckets, and a baby pool. We filled them with sand, rocks, insects, fishes, and reptiles. We did advertise that there was going to be water play and to dress for a mess. We also asked that patrons finish up all their indoor activities before making their way outside. I was supposed to man the outside, but I ended up having to help monitor Santa, so a shelver helped me out. She ended up having the hose and if kids got the okay from their adults, she would get them wet.


Fear of someone drowning, I kept this primarily mud. The water in the picture got drained out before the kids arrived. I knew kids would climb into the pool.


Our “creek”. Kids would move the buckets to different areas.
Character Outside Activity
We had a holiday tattoo station. Kids could either pick a holiday or summer tattoo. The line for this was crazy. I had to make a make-shift barrier towards the end because people were still getting in line after last call.
SantaWe of course needed Santa and some elves. We have a great partnership with this character company, and the owner helped us brainstorm some activities. She was able to get summer dresses for the elves and Santa arrived in his summer gear.