Making Christmas Decorations...

Every year we make these Christmas
decorations. It is really fun for the kids and they can do the entire project pretty independently. First they put applesauce and Cinnamon in a zip lock bag. Then they squish it around to mix it together. Then we place the mixture in between sheets of wax paper and roll it flat. Then we use gingerbread men and girl cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes. The we let them dry, tie on a ribbon and they can be hung on the Christmas tree at home or just put out somewhere because these little decorations smell amazing and keep their smell for a very long time. It is one of my favorite Christmas activities!

Treasury Hunts

Tiandra has been taking the kids on treasure hunts.
It has become their favorite outside game! Everyday
Someone is asking when we will do our hunt. It is

really cute, we have these colored plastic coins that get hidden all over the backyard. While T hides the "treasure" the kids all sing a song and look away. The when the song is over she says go and the kids all run like crazy hoping to find some treasure. They get so excited and just want to do it over and over again.

Just some fun pictures!

Christmas Trees

We painted our Christmas trees, but we wanted to do something different. So, we made special paint brushes out of left over branches from the real Christmas tree. We each selected a few small branches and taped them together to make a "handle". We simply dipped the untaped end into the paint and looked at all of the fun patterns and designs we could make with these different brushes. They turned out great and gave the children great stories to tell.

Rock Stars

Introducing the Jibber Jabber Rock Stars! We ordered some inflatable guitars and microphones. The kids came in and found them and just went crazy

with it. They spent hours coming up with rock star dances and their original songs. So great to watch all that imagination going to good use :)

Sorry for not keeping up for a while. You know how it is with the holidays, everything is go, go, go. But let me try to catch everyone up. This is the kids making Thanksgiving lunch. It was fabulous! All of the parents chipped in small contributions for food. We had turkey sandwiches, cranberry sauce, dressing, rolls, all the Thanksgiving favorites including mashed potatoes which the kids all got to help us make from scratch. I of course peeled and boiled the potatoes, but the kids did the rest. They loved mashing them, we had different kinds of mashers for them to try out. Each of them got to add an ingredient, milk, butter, etc. It was a very long but fun process. And they like eating it so much more if they brought it or if they were able to help make it.