A Hygge Christmas!

Christmas is such an exciting and wonderful time of year, but it can also become over whelming on the senses if we are not careful. Jane (Environmentasthe3rdteacher), an Early Educator in Australia, shares with us how she sets up a calm environment in her school while also ensuring the fun of the festive season.

You may think I’m a little strange but I have never really been one for traditional Christmas colours or the typical tinsel tree both in my home (much to my own children's dismay) and in my Pre Primary class. I prefer like in many of my set ups, natural products. When it comes to a Christmas tree often it involves a branch or driftwood with seed pods, twig stars and fairy lights. This year in my classroom I decided to set up a little Christmas area separated from the rest of my room by draping organza from the ceiling with twinkle lights woven through and
around.

I wanted to have a few different choices here including a sensory table which will change weekly i.e. fake snow etc. A small world nativity scene including a wooden stable and animals giving children the opportunity to retell the ‘First Christmas’ The third little table is representative of a white Christmas - which is totally surreal for my ‘Broome kids’ who’s typical Christmas involves temperatures in the high 30’ s (degrees). Most of my areas include real plants, mirrors, wooden furniture and natural neutral coloured materials such as hessian for backdrops and table covers. By keeping things neutral the learning experience set up become the feature. Overall even though there is no tinsel or Santa’s in sight I believe it is still possible to create a magical Christmas setting for your class.

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