This was my December/January bulletin board.  I don't ever leave these up for 2 months but it takes A LOT of work by teacher/student/aid.  Also, we are not is school for most of December so it wasn't enjoyed for very long. 

 I use dark blue for the background and white cut to look like snow drifts.  I had a parent use her Cricket! to make the snowflakes and words (and laminate so they will last for now 3 years).  The tree is made with the students hand prints, I have 35 kids and each made 3 handprints.  I wish I had more because it was a short tree, but it still looked good.  I also used different shades of green to give it depth, pick one shade to use for most of it and the rest just here and there.  I added little red bows for December ONLY.  The snowman is rolled white strips of paper, like a paper chain but NOT connected.  Last I decorated the snowman accordingly. 

 For December we had Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer handprints.  The face is their palm and they draw eyes and a mouth, we used glitter glue for the nose.  I added a bow for the girls to wear in their antlers which were stapled onto the board so they stayed tied.  

For December and January the kids used their feet to make snowmen.  I wish I had a close-up of these, but I will do my best to explain.  I used light blue because it reminds me of ice and white paint on the bottom of their feet.  Have them sit in a chair paint their foot and have a bucket of water for them to turn and dip their foot in and clean off.  We had them do the cleaning on their own from 3-6 year olds, remember they can take a bath at home....it doesn't need to be perfectly clean.  They dry their foot with a towel on the carpet while you start the next kid.  I cut out my snowman feet because I wanted it done my way, with blue showing around the edge.  The students put on 3 black dots (hole punch) for buttons.  5 black dots for the mouth and 2 for the eyes (small hole punch) and a carrot nose.  All of these things I had ready for them, I also traced a hat and they cut it out.  I didn't add arms or a scarf because that would have been a lot of extra work and to be honest they looked really cute without it.  The kids made these snowmen on shirts which have arms and a scarf.

When January came I took off the red bows off the tree and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  In the writing center the kids made their own snowflakes and then wrote a story about snow.  They loved making snowflakes; most of them have never done it before.  Surprisingly for never doing it before none of them cut the fold off!!  I don't have a photo of January, but you just put the snowflakes where the reindeer were.