I tried to keep it fairly simple. We had 5 centers: gingerbread men, word scramble, craft, bean bag toss game, yogurt parfaits. The teacher supplied the craft (which was making reindeer out of construction paper and tracing their hands for the antlers) and the bean bag toss game (which they did outside and kept score using chalk on the sidewalk).
I bought gingerbread man decorating kits from Michael's and spent about $21 for 3 boxes (which was 24 gingerbread men). They were on sale :) It had all the supplies I needed for decorating. I bought extra frosting just in case and didn't even come close to needing it. I did buy one extra decoration and in hindsight wish I had bought a few more candy options for decorating. The last center ran a little low on the candy that came in the kit.
The yogurt parfaits were made from strawberry yogurt, strawberries, blueberries and granola (thankfully we have no peanut allergies in our class so we were able to add the granola option). I have done this station before and added cans of Readi Whip which is fun for the kids but can get a little crazy with the younger kids. They obsess on it so I didn't do it this year.
The word scramble was simple. Go to www.armoredpenguin.com/wordscramble and type the names in and the website will make a printable .pdf word scramble for you. The kids love finding their names.
The teacher had already separated the kids into 5 groups and we timed each center so they could move pretty seamlessly from one group to the next all at the same time. We did 3 inside at the tables and 2 outside (the game and the craft) which kept the classroom from getting too crazy and tight with all the moving around.
We also had some juice and bagels w/ cream cheese for the adults but we didn't really need them. The kids mostly ate them so next year I might make sure to add the bagels to the yogurt parfait station and not worry about any food for the adults.
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