This year the Christmas party for the 29 kids in our group homes was a blast!
Each house was assigned two people from the Christmas story and they had to dress two kids from the house as their assigned people. The kids arrived at the office dressed as Mary, Joseph, an angel, a Wiseman, a shepherd, and a donkey. The competition had a little twist because it was not just based off of who had the best costume, but also we read the Christmas story and the kids had to act as the characters in the story! After a winner was chosen for best costume and best acting, we split the kids into teams for the remaining activities. Each of the four teams contained a mix of kids from each of the houses. The teams were first given a bag of supplies to dress one team member up as a human Christmas tree. The kids that were dressed up then modeled their tree costumes for the rest of the kids as if they were on a catwalk. The next activity we did a cake-decorating contest. Each team received a cake, sprinkles, whipped cream, fruit, etc, and they were told to be as creative as they could.
Two of the teams cut their cakes into the shape of Christmas trees, one into a gingerbread house, and the winning team made a Christmas tree and a snowman. After the cake contest we drew names for a money tree filled with one-leu bills (the total was about $15). Janos, the winner, was thrilled with his prize! Finally, one of the highlights of the day was when one of our educators made an appearance as Santa and each child took a picture on Santa’s lap.
The kids enjoyed a special snack and movie before they returned home after the fun party!
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