Bentley, Jake, and Viva made a number of different ornaments with me. Since beaded ornaments were a big hit with them, we made them a number of times.
One evening when Viva was with Grandma Karen, the boys made beaded necklaces.
Viva produced a felt and sequin tree ornament.
Bentley came up with an idea for an ornament. Earlier in December we used cookie cutters to make mock stained glass ornaments to decorate the windows. Bentley suggested we use the same idea (cookie cutters) to cut out shapes from paper to decorate the walls. I remembered (due to my recent inventorying of all the craft supplies!) that we had some very glittery foam board so I offered that to him. He liked it. The children went to work creating decorations for the walls.
Last year the trio really liked the magic scratch Christmas trees, so I brought them back out. They scratched away. Instead of using the magic scratch trees as ornaments, I had the children make them into thank you cards. They fancied the cards up with holiday stickers that Grandma Vicki sent them. Lincoln made a card with just stickers. (In the photo below Lincoln's card is row 1, Viva's cards row 2, Bentley's cards row 3, and Jake's cards row 4.)
And, of course, we continued to read Christmas books from our ever growing collection. Grandma Vicki sent us a couple of new ones, Kara purchased one (two?), and I added two. Next year we are going to have start reading the collection before December 1st!
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