The month of December is always filled with fun activities for our family. We take a break from our usual routine & “school” work and focus on the holiday season. I always plan to do so many things, but we usually only get in just a few. Here’s what we’ve been up to the past few weeks.
I made a Countdown Chain with one family fun activity to do each day. Numbers on the chains help the kids to see how many days are left. (Thankfully, they can’t yet read, so I have the liberty to change the activity if I don’t feel like doing what I had planned that day!)
We were in the Newton Grove Christmas Parade again this year with our church. We didn’t work on the float at all, but our family got to ride in the little sleigh on the back. (You can’t see the whole float well since it was so long, but we were on a sleigh behind a reindeer.) Everyone thought Abigail was a little doll since she was all bundled up! The float won first place overall in the parade, it was so cute! And Leah & Andrew had so much fun throwing candy to everyone.
We made this Gingerbread Tree last year and did it again this year. They helped me cut out the star shapes, then decorate, although they must have eaten twice as much candy as they put on the cookies.
We also made Christmas-shaped pizzas. I’ve recently started making homemade pizzas & they’re really good. Basically, Leah & Andrew just played with the dough. I made the shapes out of cookie cutters and then let them help me put the cheese on.
We did some painting. Andrew loves to paint, but has a tantrum when we have to put it away, so we don’t do it often. Look how focused he is! (And how much water he put in his painting!)
We decorated Christmas trees with stickers.
And, after we watched The Grinch movie, we colored masks of the Grinch!
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