Merry Christmas Part #1

 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

How does the time get away from me.  I'm so far behind in posting.

It's been a fabulous Christmas season with my little ones.

I love, love, love their excitement and anticipation of the big day.

So, here's what we did the past few weeks before Christmas.

Large Paper Strip Wreath

Paper Christmas Tree

Paper Strip Ornament

Paper Cutting Practice Santa

Santa and his Bag of Toys

Sandpaper Gingerbread Men

I cut the men from sandpaper and then we rubbed a cinnamon stick over them to make them smell and decorated them.

Gingerbread

Advent Calendar

Jolly Snowmen

Paper Garlands

Pom Pom Christmas Trees

Jingle Bell Ornaments

I put bells inside before we glued them together and decorated.

Cone Santa

Gluing Presents

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Keeping Little Hands Busy Before Christmas

 Welcome

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Christmas holiday.

It's such a busy time of year and I put all of my time into celebrating with my littles and creating.  

I took some time off, hence my late post.

Here are some of the things we did before Christmas.

Cone Christmas Trees

I made a cone shape and glued it onto an old CD for stability.

The kids glued on lots of coloured circles.  

Rocking Rudolph

These cute little guys are a PRINTABLE.

Bottle Cap Tree

Keeping it simple for my very young little ones.

I glued bottle caps to the sheet of green paper and my little ones glued coloured circles into the lids.

Christmas Stockings

Cone Santa

This is a cute PRINTABLE

Ornaments

A friend of mine gave me a bag of silk covered ornaments.  I added a sparkly pipe cleaner to the top as a hanger and the kids used lots of coloured pieces of tape to decorate them.

Angels

Another cute PRINTABLE

Christmas Tree

PRINTABLE

Mr. Snowman

This fun printable gets folded to add a tea light in the middle

Gingerbread House Decoration

PRINTABLE

Candy Cane

Simple circle candy cane.  

We talked about patterns when we made these...red, white, red, white etc.

I will be making another post showing all the fun gifts we made for the parents and all the yummy snacks we had.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Gingerbread

 Hello and Welcome.

Gingerbread...what a fun theme to work on as the kids get more excited for Christmas.

So here's what we created this week.

Gingerbread Houses

I found this adorable idea on Pinterest and just had to make it with the kids.  

It is so super simple but turned out great. 

here is the link:

Gingerbread House

Baking Gingerbread

I printed off some paper gingerbread men, the kids coloured them and we glued them onto a piece of cardboard covered with Aluminum Foil.

They played with them for hours!

Gingerbread Garland

A simple garland made with some colouring gingerbread men.

Gingerbread Men

I bought these simple little men at the Dollar Store.  

We decorated them with some fun sequins.

Colouring of course.

Finally, we made a fun little snack.

It was a simple one and they loved it.

I took a graham wafer cracker and cut the top to look like the roof.

We added some candies, marshmallows and a few raisins to decorate.

You should have seen their faces when they were done and I said...

'Ok, now go ahead and eat them!'

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Christmas Greetings

As the big day gets closer, we continue to work on some great holiday gifts and surprises.

The kids just love the idea of creating to give to their moms and dads.  Lots more of that coming after next week as we don't want to spoil the surprise for the parents.

So here's what we did this week.

The Stockings were hung.

I cut a simple stocking shape and the kids sewed it together.  We decorated them and hung them up.

I added their names at the top after the pic was taken.

Little Reindeer puppets were made from a piece of brown construction paper.

I added some twine and bells after.  They loved shaking their little puppets to hear the bells.

And....a big red pom pom for the nose!

Elf Windsock

Just a piece of rolled up paper decorated with elf features.

 We did a gingerbread day.

Above were made using a paper towel roll.  These are cute as they can sit on a shelf.

Puppets made with a kit I bought at the Dollar Store.

Gingerbread houses.

I searched for 'printable gingerbread houses' and found these easy ones.

I printed them onto some heavy white cardstock, the kids coloured them and we put them together for the tree.

Colouring of course.

Grinch Day

So every year we do a 'Grinch Day'.

This year is was on Friday.

So very fun!!

We all wore green and watched the Grinch movie.

We played 'Pin the Heart on the Grinch'.

I printed this off in parts and laminated it.

Grinch Puppet.

I cute a small paper plate into the Grinch's head shape and we added details.

Happy Grinchmas.  Simple wall hanging of the Grinch going down the chimney.

Food we ate:

Green Grinchy popcorn.

I tinted the butter with some green food colouring.

When we ate the popcorn, our tongues turned green!!  Boy, did we laugh.

Heart sandwiches for the Grinch's heart growing big.

Green cucumbers with a slice of banana and a strawberry snack held together with a pretzel stick,

(I have sugar free kids so this was a great alternative)

And lastly, this cute tree.  

Here's the link:

http://krokotak.com/2019/12/christmas-tree-3/