Over the weekend, we actually had a day where we had nothing on the agenda. I knew what that meant....Christmas crafts! It actually started on Friday night. Grandma and Grandpa came over so that I could run to Walmart and get some grocery shopping done. It turns out that when Frankenstein returned to our house this year, she brought with her oodles of Christmas crafts (gotta love the dollar store). First up, we paintd some Christmas ornaments. Actually I think they might be sun catchers but the kids had fun doing it.
I have some of these from a few years ago when Gracie painted them.
Presley was relly into it.
So was Evie. They are both starting to get into crafting.
The next night, Frankenstein left us a gingerbread house kit! She even brought some frosting and sprinkles.
Well we had hardly finished breakfast before the kids were asking to make it.
Turns out this kit came with 4 little houses. That was perfect when you have 3 kids.
Mommy built the houses and we let the frosting set in on the houses before we emptied the candy into bowls and took turns passing them around to decorate our houses.
Presley decorated his house carefully. One piece of candy at a time.
This girl did a little bit with the gumdrops but I think most of them ended up in her tummy.
I also had some old waffle cones up in the cabinet so we turned them upside down and turned some frosting green and made them into Christmas trees. We added them to our little village. They looked so cute.
Here we are with our finished projects. These two really worked hard at their creations. Evie is not in the picture probably because she had a tummy ache from eating too much candy while decorating her house.
Turns out that Daddy was off this weekend too so in between crafting and baking, (I made some yummy holiday snack mix and some peppermint puppy chow. Chuck made gooey butter cake), Daddy set up the train! The kids love this train and know how to drive it well. It is a nice set (from Menards and we have had it for a couple of years now.) You can even press a button to blow the whistle and steam comes out! Look at my little goofy conductor.
Then he begged me to take some silly pictures of him.
What a goofball!
Then throughout the day, I was working on this creation. Every season I like to do a handprint craft with the kids and hang it up. Last Christms we took our handprints and turned them into Christmas trees. This year (thanks to the plethra of idea on Pinterest), I decided to use our footprints to make snowmen! That way we could keep it up for all of winter too. The kids were excited about me painting their feet white. Chuck was thrilled too. First though I had to paint my canvas blue. I let it dry, and then we did our footprints. After that dried, I painted our index fingers and our thumbs so that we could make the hats. They look a little like sombreros but it still turned out. After that dried, I cut ribbon to make scarves and added the faces and arms. I took some letters from my scrapbook stash and spelled out "There's snow place like home." I even added some buttons for snowflakes. I think it turned out cute.
We also made these ornaments too. After Christmas last year, I bought these cheap balls. I had the kids pick their color and put their handprints on them.
On the other side I wrote their names, year, and 3 things that they wanted for Christmas. Again, I saw this on Pinterest. Gracie wants a princess Barbie castle, a guitar, and a game called Pop the Pig. Presley wants a red bow and arrow, a Hawkeye outfit, and boots. Evie wants a Dora dollhouse, a princess doll, and a princess castle. I think this is something we might start doing every year. What a great keepsake to have when they get older.
We also made handprint wreaths with our thumbprints as the berries. There is a poem that goes with this too (I just have to check Pinterest). When these are finished, I will post the finished project.
So we have been busy but I have a few more crafts and fun things up my sleeve before Christmas gets here.
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