Jake And The Never Land Pirates Christmas Wreath

With a little inspiration from the Disney Junior characters, we’re celebrating Christmas with some of our favourite bloggers, creating magical Christmas activities for you and your little one to make and share with your family. Disney Junior The Channel is available in all Foxtel subscribing homes, channel 709.

Christmas is generally a “traditional” time of year but sometimes old style themes are quite lost on today’s children. Every year we put snowflakes on the windows and my mother puts up her fake fireplace. Yet my children have no concept of snow at Christmas time and none of our houses has ever had a fireplace (not a real one at least).

I have taught well over 100 craft classes for children and the one thing I can tell you is that if kids do not relate to their project then no “creativity” will shine through.

So, here is a fun way to theme your Christmas decorations to something your little ones can relate to. This Disney Junior Jake And The Never Land Pirates Christmas door wreath is lots of jolly fun and all the kids who come to our door love it. If you use it year after year, it also adds a little “time stamp” for remembering when your kids were young.

Because let’s face it, they grow up way too fast.

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To make this Jake and The Never Land Christmas Wreath, you will need:

A lifebuoy ring or polystyrene wreath (from a craft store) and rope (hardware store)
Themed Jake And The Never Land Pirates Party Plate (from a Party Store)
Gold Coins (Party section)
Sword (Dress up section)
Skull and CrossBones sticker or printout
Christmas sign and Christmas bows.

When you have all these items, the rest of the instructions on how to make this Christmas wreath fall into place, especially if your kids love watching Jake and The Never Land Pirates on Disney Junior Channel. (Disney Junior The Channel is where magical storytelling comes to life! Available in all Foxtel subscribing homes in Australia; channel 709 and Fetch).

Start adding the embellishments on to the lifebuoy ring. The kids can help you to design and create the layout.

We used a quick drying clear craft glue instead of Hot Glue so that the kids could get involved and help create the perfect family wreath. And that is it!

How easy and fun was this? What Disney Junior character would your kids use to create their own perfect wreath? Join them at @disneyjunioraunz and use #DJMagical Moments.

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Holidays are a great time to pull in some themed STEM projects. Even kids who aren’t usually into science can get excited about making a reindeer fly or making a Christmas tree out of 3D shapes. Check out these fun Christmas STEM activities to try in your classroom or at home.

Speaking of making reindeer fly, there are lots of different takes on this engineering challenge. In the instructions from The Educator’s Spin on it, kids make a reindeer from recycled materials, then use a string to make it “fly.” You can also do this with a balloon, like in this version from Team Cartwright.

And that Christmas tree project? That one is from Steamsational, and it calls for making a bunch of 3D triangles you then assemble into a tree. The post includes all the tips you’ll need and a printable template for making the triangles.

Another cute idea from Steamsational is making Santa’s sleigh out of an egg carton. Give kids design challenges such as that Santa must stay in the sleigh, it should be able to move and pull weight. It’s so fun to see what kids come up with.

Science Sparks has a printable book full of Christmas-themed experiments with templates kids can cut out and use to make spinning sleighs, shadow puppets, a paper tube to test how much weight it can hold and more. These activities are really low prep beyond the printing, so they’re great when you need to fill a little time at home or at school.

If you have Legos and jingle bells you can make a simple engineering challenge by having kids build mazes that the bells can roll through. Get the details from Innovation Kids Lab. (And check out this fun book of Lego Christmas ornaments!)

Of course you can also put a Christmas spin on classic STEM activities, like making a baking soda volcano in a plastic or glass ball ornament (Little Bins for Little Hands), red and green magic milk (Fun Learning for Kids), Borax crystal ornaments (Go Science Kids) and more!

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