Objective:
The students will decorate a shoe box featuring a created shoe.

Materials

• Shoe Boxes (one per student)

• Paints, markers, crayons, etc.

• Paper

Procedure

1. Tell the students they will be creating their own design of shoe.  It may be any type of shoe they wish.  The design of this shoe should be drawn on the paper.

2. They will then decorate a shoe box to advertise their new shoe.  They may use any of the provided art materials to decorate their boxes. 

3. When their boxes are complete, they should place their "shoe" in the box.

Other Lesson Ideas

1. Have the students trace their feet and decorate their shoe print in any way they wish.  These "shoe prints" may be displayed on a wall as if they are walking along.

2. In conjunction with the Language Arts Lesson, have the students create props, simple costumes (i.e. elf hats), or poster advertising the play of the Elves and the Shoemaker.