Last week I was skyping with the best of the besties, Renee', when she randomly held up a pop-sickle stick mummy that she and the girls made as their Halloween craft. I thought it was really cute and I thought to myself, "Self? Why don't you and the kids craft more??"
The truth is that I am a very crafty gal, but I don't like mess. So with a 2 year old who likes to destroy everything in her path, and a 3 year old who doesn't like when he gets a smudge of dirt on his fingers, anything other than paper and crayons is a little bit much for our household. But here we are in the UK, thousands of miles away from my surplus of Christmas decorations, so I decided I needed to take our normal afternoon coloring session to the next level. Thus began our month long
Christmas Craft Brigade!!!
We are doing a Christmasy craft everyday after naptime. We started on Thursday December first, and will go for as long as I have the supplies and patience to do so!
Day One:
Wreaths!
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Mommy's wreath. :o)
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Getting Started |
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She got a good start... |
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Yikes...someone needs a manicure! |
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That's not where they go, silly! |
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Proud of her "finished" wreath! |
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Proud and shy guy...he did a great job, I think!!! |
Day Two:
Snowmen Coloring (Maxwell was pretty sick, so back to coloring we go!)
We have a door leading into the living room that needed some holiday sprucing up.
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Maxwell loves writing his name! |
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Is she going to be our "righty?" |
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Maxwell helped Daddy color one when he got home from work! |
Day Three:
Paper Chain
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Ballerina girl? Daddy was about to drop her, I think!! |
We went to Tesco this morning to get an artificial tree. Just something inexpensive and little for our time here in the UK. I only brought the kid's ornaments along, so we only had about 6 pieces to hang. So I bought a box of silver bells for £1 to fill in the holes, but that still left the tinsel! Today's craft was a lovely chain to drape across the tree!
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Ta-Da!! |
So far we are having a lot of fun with these projects and I keep thinking of more and more to do. I am either going to A) run out of days before Christmas gets here or B) get in trouble for spending too much money at HobbyCraft. :o)
What will tomorrow bring? Keep checking back to see!! Happy Holidays!!!
1 comment:
What a great idea!! =)
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