Holiday Writing Prompt: A Day in the Life of a Christmas Tree

Have kids draw/color a picture of a Christmas Tree. Exchange drawings with other students to write descriptive words on the back of the drawing. Encourage students to write descriptive phrases and not just one word. Using the comments, have the students write a "Day in the Life of a Christmas Tree". In the first person, the "Christmas tree" tells what it hears, sees, feels, etc. as it stands in the room. It might overhear conversations, it might be ticklish as it is being decorated, it might be sad to have been cut down, etc. Encourage the students to use some of the descriptive phrases in their writing.

You could open this up to other holiday things such as an ornament, a menorah, the Kinara (candle holder) for Kwanzaa, a stocking hanging on a chimney mantle! 

Gail

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