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| Little snowflake people from here |
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| air dry clay decorations |
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| duct tape flowers |
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| Totoro under the christmas tree keeping company with some wise men and other clay characters |
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Advent Calendar part 2
Lots of crafty activities on our advent calendar this year, like air dry clay decorations, duct tape flowers, and felt softies. We finally put up the Christmas tree and decorated it with all our newly made treasures. Another day we baked a huge batch of gingerbread cookies which we ate non stop all day. Other days saw us donating bags of toys and clothes to Savers, doing The Hour of Code, visiting the Gingerbread Village at the Melbourne Town Hall, and seeing the film Nativity! at ACMI,
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Advent Calendar 2014
Our advent calendar this year is big and bold, made on a budget and takes up lots of space in the kitchen.
I have reused the little envelopes I made for last year's calendar; the frame is an old one we've had for years and the decorations were leftovers from Dr P's year 9 class. Total cost: $0!! I have more baubles to add as we progress through the calendar. Each morning we'll cover up that day's date so we'll always know what day we're up to.
Yesterday's activity was a day out at Funfields with loads of other homeschoolers to celebrate the end of another year. An awesome day out complete with all kinds of Melbourne weather - cool winds to start with then an almost thunderstorm, some rain, sudden humidity and then scorching sun. All that in just five hours!
Day two - Make beaded bubble wands.
We made a pile of these as presents for Moomintroll's birthday party guests.
With the bowlful of leftover beads we also made some sparkly new decorations for our tree.
The girls are desperate to put the tree up now, but we'll have to wait until the Advent Calendar says it's the right time. I've actually forgotten which day it will be so hopefully I'll get a surprise that day too!
I have reused the little envelopes I made for last year's calendar; the frame is an old one we've had for years and the decorations were leftovers from Dr P's year 9 class. Total cost: $0!! I have more baubles to add as we progress through the calendar. Each morning we'll cover up that day's date so we'll always know what day we're up to.
Yesterday's activity was a day out at Funfields with loads of other homeschoolers to celebrate the end of another year. An awesome day out complete with all kinds of Melbourne weather - cool winds to start with then an almost thunderstorm, some rain, sudden humidity and then scorching sun. All that in just five hours!
Day two - Make beaded bubble wands.
We made a pile of these as presents for Moomintroll's birthday party guests.
With the bowlful of leftover beads we also made some sparkly new decorations for our tree.
The girls are desperate to put the tree up now, but we'll have to wait until the Advent Calendar says it's the right time. I've actually forgotten which day it will be so hopefully I'll get a surprise that day too!
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