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Create your very own North Pole Times Elf Puppets with this fun and easy DIY craft! Perfect for kids and families, this festive project brings the beloved North Pole Times characters to life. Using simple materials, kids can make their own adorable elf puppets and put on a holiday puppet show. A wonderful holiday activity for classrooms, family gatherings, or as a special keepsake from the North Pole!

Christmas Heart Ornament Craft

Create heartfelt holiday memories with this easy DIY Christmas Heart Ornament Craft! Perfect for kids and families, this festive craft lets you design beautiful heart-shaped ornaments to decorate your Christmas tree. Using simple materials, these handmade ornaments add a personal touch to your holiday décor. Ideal for classrooms, family crafting sessions, or as thoughtful gifts, this craft is a wonderful way to spread Christmas cheer!

Christmas Paper Ornaments

Bring the magic of the North Pole into your home with DIY Christmas Paper Ornaments featuring North Pole Times characters! This fun and easy craft lets kids and families create colorful, handmade ornaments inspired by your favorite North Pole elves. Perfect for hanging on the Christmas tree or giving as gifts, these paper ornaments add a festive, personal touch to your holiday décor. Great for classrooms, family crafting sessions, or holiday parties, this craft is a wonderful way to spread Christmas cheer!

Christmas Pop Up Cards

Create festive cheer with DIY Christmas Pop-Up Cards featuring North Pole Times characters! This fun and easy craft allows you to design unique, handmade pop-up cards that bring the magic of the holiday season to life. Perfect for sending holiday greetings or giving as personalized gifts, these pop-up cards add a special touch to your Christmas celebrations. Whether crafting with kids, in the classroom, or at a holiday party, this simple craft is sure to delight family and friends alike!

12 Days of Christmas

Number of gifts keeps getting bigger and bigger!

by Ellie Elf

Welcome, wonderers!

This week at the School of Wonders, the elves have been in a musical mood! What’s your favourite Christmas song? One of mine is the song ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’. Do you know it? I set my class a little challenge based on it.

The song tells the story of all the gifts that someone’s ’true love’ gives them over 12 days of Christmas. It’s a sort of ‘list song’ - one of those songs that gets longer and longer with each verse, so the number of gifts keeps getting bigger and bigger!

It starts off like this:

‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

a partridge in a pear tree.’

So, on Day 1 the person in the song gets 1 present.

[1 gift]

The second verse is:

‘On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

2 calling birds

and a partridge in a pear tree.’

So, on Day 2, the person in the song gets 2 new presents plus another partridge in a pear tree

[3 gifts]

2 + 1 = 3 presents on Day 2

The third verse is:

‘On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

3 French hens,

2 calling birds

and a partridge in a pear tree.’

So, on Day 3, the person in the song gets 3 new presents plus the calling birds and the partridge again:

[6 Gifts]

3 + 2 + 1 = 6 presents on Day 3

By now the gifts are starting to mount up!

[10 Gifts]

1 + 3 + 6 = 10 gifts altogether so far

Can you see a pattern?

The gifts make a pyramid each time. Each new day adds a new layer to the pyramid.

[by Ellie Elf]

Now, I won’t bore you with the words to the whole song, but I expect you can roughly guess how it continues… By the time we get to the twelfth verse, quite a lot of gifts have been given!

If you want to look the words up, ask an adult and they should be able to find them for you.

So far we have counted the gifts in the first 3 days of the song, but my challenge to you is this:

If your true love gave you gifts for all 12 days,

how many gifts would you have been given altogether?

I will leave you the challenge until next week when I will share the answer. It’s a really interesting number!

Some of the elves in my class found it helpful to draw their own gift pyramids to help them record their working out. You might like to do the same.

Until next week - keep wondering!

Professor Ellie Elf

Spread Christmas Cheer with Magical Elf Texts from the North Pole!

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