The Catholic School Foundation holds a Christmas card art contest every year. The entries are due in October, so the 5th grade class got to work on Christmas projects now. I played some seasonal music to get us in the mood.
In addition I integrated a lesson on Cubism. We talked about Picasso and other artist who started the Cubism movement and how it was significant to the start of Abstract art.
The requirements for this project was the following: Incorporated the theme "Jesus Brings Peace" for a Christmas card in a Cubism style using warm and cool colors to separated the objects from the background. As I thought they handled it quite well. The only down side is that we do not get to keep the original art. I made sure to photograph everything before it got mailed off.
Good luck everyone!