Jungle Bells Video

we sang Christmas carols on Sunday for our advent project. Liam's favorite is Jingle Bells, so I video'd him singing it. Enjoy!

And More Advent....

Setting up and playing with the Play Mobile Nativity Set:

Christmas Tree Craft:

And the latest, which we did this afternoon, a "gingerbread house" made out of cardboard, construction paper and cotton balls:

P Week

p week:

Color pages:

David had to have his picture taken too:

Liam did so good at his P word search!

Pepper P's:

P is for Prayer! This included a color page and a drawing of something to pray for...
Prayer color page:

And this is the drawing and prayer. At first Liam wanted to pray that Caleb (his best friend who just moved to South Carolina) would come back, but after we talked it over, he decided to pray that Caleb would find a friend where he is now. The writing says "A new friend for Caleb from Liam". He is going to send it to Caleb in the mail:

Pattern Matching...this was a new and fun project that Liam enjoyed. I told him to draw what came next in the pattern in the boxes.

Next is the letter Q!

More Advent Projects...

Over the last couple days we have watched Christmas movies, made chocolate dipped pretzels and a nice long paper chain....
The dipped pretzels were super easy and fun to make, and the boys enjoy eating them. I used this recipe and just tweaked it a little...as in, didn't use a microwave....oh and I made peppermint "dust" (peppermint candies ground up in a mini food processor) to sprinkle over them!

And this years paper chain was extra cool in that we used the fancy paper punches I have to punch the strips with trees, snowflakes and stars before making the chain. It is hanging along the top of the sliding door's blinds and looks very nice!

More Advent fun to come...be sure to come back and take a look!

Advent Projects

Here are a few pictures of some of the projects we've done so far while we count down the days to Christmas!

Clove Oranges...fun to make, and the smell good too!

Advent candle wreath pictures:

Making Christmas cards!

O week

O week got mixed up with my preparations for special december crafts and projects, so we didn't do much...

Color pictures, as usual:

Glue "Oats" to "O"

which led to glue oats to our names....David in particular LOVED this project and didn't want to stop:

And an "O" word search:

Counting the days...

We're doing special things each day to celebrate Christmas! We began by making a special Advent Calendar...

First we painted 24 toilet tissue rolls red:

Then, we stapled one end of each one:

We cut out and attached pretty christmas paper to each roll:

And put in strips of paper that told what we were to do each day:

We strung them on red yarn:

And hung them on the wall!

This was a fun idea for an advent calendar that I got from the Maya Made Blog! I changed some things, like instead of sewing the rolls closed, we just stapled them....and wrapped papers around them instead of just putting the embellishments straight on.... And she has hers on a board, which I think I would like to do actually.

So, come back soon and see what we do while we count down the days to Christmas!