Grades K - 2 Cone-Shaped Santa Centerpiece Project
Subject
Math
Grades
K, 1, & 2
Brief Description
Students will create a Santa centerpiece using various 2-D objects &
3-D shapes.
Objectives
Students will identify, describe, compare, and construct various 2-D
objects & 3-D shapes.
Materials Needed
Red cone-shaped party hats
Red and white pipe cleaners
Green ribbon, 1/4 inch wide, & wiggle eyes
White craft glue
Red, green and pink construction paper
Scissors
Fiberfill
Small red pom-poms
Pre-Santa Centrepiece Project Preparations
Depending on the age of the students, create models of each of the
steps in the creation of the Santa centrepiece, including a final
product, for the students to follow and see.
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Depending on the age of the students, some of the pieces may have to
be pre-cut or drawn for cutting.
Lesson Plan
1. Cut a 5cm circle from the pink paper for a face.
2. Glue the face about 5cm down from the point of the hat.
3. Glue a band of fiberfill all the way around the hat just above the
face to form the base of the Santa hat.
4. Glue a ball of fiberfill at the point of the hat.
5. Glue fiberfill on both sides of the face for hair and along the bottom
of the face for a beard.
6. Glue the two wiggle eyes on the face below the hat.
7. Glue on the red pom-pom for a nose.
8. Glue the two ends of a strip of ribbon around the Santa for a belt.
9. Cut two rectangular arms from the red paper and two circular
mittens from the green paper.
10.
Glue the mittens on the end of the arms and glue one arm on
each side of the Santa.
11.
Twist two 6cm pieces of pipe cleaner, one red and one white,
together to make a candy cane.
12.
Glue the candy cane to the beard to make it look like Santa is
eating the candy cane.
13.
Glue fiberfill across the cuff of each arm to look like fur.
14.
I would like to include a Yukon student picture with their
Santa in this lesson plan. If you take any pictures I would
enjoy getting copies at [email protected].
Created by Ms. Paula Thompson, Mathematics Consultant
Assessment
As students are about to build, building Santa or after it is complete
ask if they can:
✪ Predict the items that will be needed to make the Santa
centrepiece.
✪ Describe the parts of Santa. Young students should be able to
use words such as big, little, round, like a box, and like a can.
✪ Identify examples of spheres, cones, and cylinders.
✪ Select the next appropriate piece to reproduce a certain part
of the Santa centrepiece.
✪ Ask students to show the parts that are the same/different.
Students responses might resemble the following:
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Both Santa’s eyes and the black part are round.
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Some of the parts have curves.
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The eyes are round like the face, nose, and mittens.
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Both Santa’s arms are rectangles.
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The nose and hat top are spheres.
✪ Name the 2-D face of a given 3-D part of Santa.
BC Mathematics K to 7 IRP May 2006 Connections
Kindergarten
C3: Build and describe 3-D objects.
Grade 1
C3: Replicate composite 2-D shapes and 3-D objects.
C4: Compare 2-D shapes to parts of 3-D objects in the environment.
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Grade 2
C7: Describe, compare, and contrast 3-D objects including:
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Spheres
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Cones
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Cylinders
C8: Describe, compare, and contrast 2-D shapes including:
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Rectangles
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Circles
C9: Identify 2-D shapes as parts of 3-D objects in the environment.
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