Christmas Party Plans

We'll be having a Santa's Workshop theme for our classroom Holiday parties this year (both Cannon and Curtis).  We want to give the kids an opportunity to make some gifts to take home and give to their family members.  I'm looking for great ideas.  Inexpensive, meaningful gifts.  Please share!  I'll post ideas that come my way.  Thanks!

Halloween Fun!

Here are the cute pictures of our class parties today.  Halloween is such a fun holiday for kids.  For our First Grade party, we had 5 stations:
-Halloween Bingo
-Cupcake Walk (with spooky Halloween music)
-Monster Hands (plastic gloves filled with popcorn)
-Sucker Witch
-Mummy Hand Candy Sort (wrap the kids' hands in fabric and have them try to pick up and sort small candies)

The kids had a blast.  Thanks to all of the creative moms who helped create and run this awesome party!!

Our Fourth Grade party was great, too!  We had 5 stations:
-Halloween Greeting Cards (the pop-up kind)
-Halloween Bingo
-Oreo Spiders (use Oreos for body, Twizzlers peel-n-pull for legs, and chocolate chips for eyes...stuck together with frosting)
-Halloween Story and Sing-A-Long (Susie, you rock!!)
-Spider Web Game (with yarn)

These are the Oreo spiders.  Sorry, no pics of the other stations, since I was busy running this one!  Enjoy, and Happy Halloween!