Classroom Craft: Tissue Paper Wreath

This tissue paper wreath craft is a festive way to celebrate the holiday season and make learning fun! Crafts give children opportunities to express their creativity, practice fine motor skills, and stay engaged. They’re also a wonderful way to reinforce skills from other subjects.

Follow along with this video for instructions, then scroll down for cross-disciplinary activity ideas to do with your wreaths.

Materials needed:

• Paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Green tissue paper
• Red pom poms
• Ribbon

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When gifting the wreaths to others, try these writing prompts:

“I am giving my wreath to…”
“This person is special because…”
“I hope this wreath makes them feel…”

Students can use these writing prompts to create cards for the recipients of their wreaths.

Students can use these writing prompts to write about the meaning of their wreaths:

“My wreath stands for…”
“The colors I chose show…”
“When people see my wreath, I hope they feel…”

These writing prompts are great for practicing descriptive language and thinking about symbols.

Students can write a short narrative about:

The history of the wreath
What the wreath symbolizes
Who they plan to give their wreath to

For older grades, these assignments can help students practice researching and learning about the history surrounding holiday traditions.

Students can practice writing one of each of the following types of poems:

Couplet
Acrostic (W-R-E-A-T-H)
Haiku
Sensory poem (“Looks like… feels like… smells like… reminds me of…”)

Students can practice their math skills by creating wreaths in simple or complex patterns, such as AB or ABC, or even with radial symmetry.

To practice data collection, analysis, and visualization, students can count the number of tissues of each color they use to complete their wreath and record the results on a class chart. Then, make a simple bar chart to show the total number of tissues of each color used by the class.

Place the tissue paper alongside other materials with varying textures in a sensory bin for students to touch and describe. Students can then sort the materials by texture, such as crinkly, soft, smooth, crunchy, rippled, puffy, bumpy, and so on.

Discuss the origin of the wreath, and learn about wreaths from different cultures and what they symbolize.

On each piece of tissue paper, students write an act of kindness they will do for someone else. Then, make a giant wreath with the tissue paper and display it in the hall.