"Magic Snow"

More Spaghetti, I Say!

Baby Lane LOVES Spaghetti!

Rylee is wrapped up like a burrito!  She starts at one end of the blanket and holds onto it and rolls and rolls!  It's hilarious to watch!

Trying to figure out how to get the toys out of the box!

Winter Fun

Pajamas, Popcorn, Presents, and Polar Express

Our Last Day Before Christmas Break

Rylee and Lane in their jammies

Making popcorn

Opening Presents

Gingerbread Day

Gingerbread Day

 Gingerbread Tracing

 Gingerbread Puzzle

 Gingerbread Letter Matching

 Gg or Other Letters
(Notice the cute little dress Reegan wore for gingerbread day)

Making Gingerbread Cookies

These activites came from

http://www.thoughtsofesme.blogspot.com/

Handprint in salt dough

Could she possibly be any cuter?

Green Gak!

Recipe for Gak:

1 cup glue
1 cup liquid starch
food coloring

Mix together in a bowl.  There will look like there is a lot of extra liquid.  Knead the mixture with your hand and the liquid will eventally soak in.

Playing in the snow!

The Elf on the Shelf

 We had a special visitor on December 1st.  It's the Elf on the Shelf!  Nicholas gave him a name....Gilbert.  He was hired by Santa to watch you all day long and then at night he flies back to the North Pole to give Santa a report!  He is a great listener but he is under strict orders never to talk.  His only rule is that he can not be touched or he will lose his Christmas magic!  Each day he hides in a different place.  These are some of the places that we have found him:

Five Little Cookies

Five little cookies sitting on a plate,

Waiting for Santa, he was running late.

Along came a reindeer and guess what he ate?

CRUNCH

(Countdown cookies until you empty the plate!)

Christmas Cookies

Making Christmas Cookies

 Luke is a professional at cutting out cookies!

 This is the table all set up for them to frost and sprinkle as much as they want!  Imagine being three years old and seeing this.......HEAVEN!

 They LOVED decorating their cookies!  It kept them busy for an hour!  You would think there would be a huge mess, but it wasn't.  There was nothing on the floor, believe it or not! 

The finished product!

Christmas Aprons

We made these for all of our Christmas cooking activities!  I used fabric paint for the names and for the cookie cutter shapes!

Christmas Cookie Cutter Art

Cinnamon Ornaments

Recipe for Cinnamon Ornaments

You will need:

applesauce

cinnamon

Mix 1 cup cinnamon to 1/2 cup applesauce in a large bowl.  Gradually add cinnamon until it is a dough.  Spread cinnamon on the surface where you will be rolling the ornaments.  Cut shapes out and use a straw to put a hole in the top.  Heat oven to 250 degrees and put them in the oven for 60 minutes, 30 minutes on each side.  Your house will smell wonderful!  Put a ribbon on the top and hang on your tree!

Snow Castles

 We brought snow inside and made snow castles!

Baby Lane loved the snow!

 Baby Rylee hamming it up!

Rylee practicing sitting up!  She's getting pretty good!

Snowmen Ornament

Books About Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas  by Hilary Knights

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies  by Laura Numeroff

The Very Best Christmas Present  by Jim Razzi

Auntie Claus  by Elise Primavera

Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear  by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Laura's Christmas Star  by Klaus Baumgart

The Christmas Cub  by Justine Fontes

Laura's Star  by Klaus Baumgart

The Crocodile Christmas  by Bonny Becker

Room For a Little One  by Martin Waddell

Merry Christmas Curious George  by H.A. Rey

Little Critter Night Before Christmas  by Mercer Mayer

Harold and the North Pole  by Crockett Johnson

Winnie the Pooh's Christmas  by Bruce Talkington

Arthur's Perfect Christmas  by Marc Brown

Pooh's Jingle Bells  by Kathleen Zoehfeld

Wipe Your Feet, Santa Claus  by Konrad Richter

The Night Before Christmas  by Jan Brett

Bear's First Christmas  by Robert Kinerk

The Mouse Before Christmas  by Michael Garland

This is the Stable  by Cynthia Cotten

Snowmen at Christmas  by Caralyn Buehner

The Christmas Blizzard  by Helen Ketteman

The Polar Express  by Chris Van Allsburg

Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear  by Don &Audrey Wood

Clifford's Christmas Wishes  by Gail Herman

Mooseltoe  by Margie Palatini

Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Christmas  by Joy Cowley

Santa's Stuck  by Rhonda Greene

Maisy Makes Gingerbread  by Lucy Cousins

Hurry, Santa!  by Julie Sykes

Clifford's Christms  by Norman Bridwell

Clifford's First Christmas  by Norman Bridwell

Merry Christmas, Stinky Face  by Lisa McCourt

Clifford Christmas Angel  by Quinlan B. Lee

Merry Christmas Mom and Dad  by Mercer Mayer

Mouse's First Christmas  by Lauren Thompson

The Very Snowy Christmas  by Diana Hendry

The Gingerbread Man  (Scholastic)

Franklin's Christmas Gift  by Paulette Bourgeois

Santa's Noisy Night  by Julie Sykes

The Gingerbread Baby  by Jan Brett

Painting our Turkeys

Handprint Turkeys