Christmas Time Again!

I had a bit of a hiatus from my blogging, but I am ready to move forward full steam ahead.  Christmas is one of my favorite holidays.  I enjoy decorating, baking, gift wrapping, and giving.  This time of the year I try to give back to my community as much as possible.  Tomorrow, we will graph at least 10 linear equations with labels to make Christmas/Holiday cards.  If they don't have anyone to send it to, we will send them to the local veterans for Christmas.  Below are two examples, I really hope they like doing these.  I did not get to designing the Haunted houses with linear equations this year, so this was a great use of linear equations.

 

Math craft for the holidays

So my students had a half day of class before the winter break and I knew that they wouldn't be 100% in class, so I went searching the internet for a fun activity that would fit to state standards for South Carolina, but would keep the kids working instead of babysitting the kids for the day because they wouldn't work.  I stumbled upon a project online using only quadrilaterals, the students must make a Christmas/Holiday card.  I was floored by the adorable outcome of some of the cards.  They had to use at least one square, one rectangle, one kite, one trapezoid, and one parallelogram ( I assumed them making a rhombus would be too much of a mental challenge for them this particular day).  The other stipulation was that they could only use quadrilaterals on the front.