All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

I had only one fifth grade student on the last day of class 😊 I had already planned on making a Christmas card with them so I told her we would make cards together. We first folded and cut a red piece of paper like the white paper in the photo. We laied the sheet flat out on the table and drew a wiggly line at the top to be the wire for the Christmas lights, We dipped our fingers in different colored paint to make the lights and while the paint was drying, we cut out 3 green triangles, each one just a little bit smaller than the other. We glued them together, added the sequins, and then glued the tree onto the cut out part of the red paper leaving just enough space to draw the tree trunk.  We added snow with a white pencil and then wrote Merry Christmas. I'm sure if I had more students they would have been creative with the details. We both ejoyed this Christmas card moment together and it was nice to talk as we worked and get to know her better.    

 Studying about food always makes me hungry! We've been talking about picnics and what people in Brazil usually take to one. My first-graders painted a white sheet of paper to look like a picnic towel then they made ants by dipping their fingers in black paint and stamping another white sheet. They then drew the legs and antennae. When eveything was dry, they cut the ants out and pasted them onto the picnic towel. Last, they made playdoh food and presented their picnics to the class.