Santa's Reindeer

What You Need:

• Construction paper 
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Pencil

What You Do:

1. Review the names of all of the reindeers with your child. We have: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and, last but not least, Rudolph. See if she can remember their names on her own. Explain that she'll be featuring Rudolph as the largest reindeer. Then, ask her to choose two other reindeer to featute in the medium and small-sized portraits.
2. Place a sheet of construction paper in a vertical, or portrait orientation and set it aside to be the background of the reindeer portraits.
3. Ask her to place a sheet of brown construction paper on the table in a vertical orientation. Have her draw three squares using a pencil. Each square should be larger than the next to create small, medium and large-sized shapes.
4. On the white paper, have her create circles for the eyes. There will be two large, two medium and two small white circles. Repeat this action with the black paper, but making sure the circles start a bit smaller than before.
5. Ask her to glue the black circles onto the white circles.
6. Glue the squares on the paper, overlapping one another. The largest square will be located at the bottom.
7. Inquire what reindeer she has decided to include in her portrait. Ask her if she remembers all of the reindeers' names.
8. Have her glue the eyes in place on the squares.
9. Encourage her to draw and cut out three squares for the reindeer noses. The largest will be red for Rudolph, one will be medium-sized and the other small-sized. Glue them in place.
10. To complete her reindeer, have her cut out three pairs of antlers, each larger than the next. Glue them in place.