Christmas Craft Fun!

On Saturday, we headed to the library where they had some fun Christmas crafts to make. You could also see Santa! So, for the second time that day, the kids took a picture with Santa. (The other time was at Lily's recital.)


We just took a group picture this time. =)
After a yummy snack, the kids headed to the craft tables. The first craft they made was an igloo out of a cup, cotton, and marshmallows.

I don't have any other pictures of this craft. =(

After that one, we got stuff to make snowmen.

It was 3 small paper plates hooked together with white pipe cleaners. There were tiny holes already punched out to put the pipe cleaners in. The arms were black pipe cleaners, and you could choose either red or green pipe cleaners for the headband part of the ear muffs. Then they had white puff balls for the rest of the ear muffs. The nose & boots were constructions paper, and they had pre-cut fabric for scarves.

They turned out really cute!

On Monday, we had craft day with Lily's preschool age cousins. We made Rudolph out of tracings of their hands and one foot on construction paper. We also decorated foam gingerbread men.

They used puff paint, wiggly eyes, and Christmas beads to decorate the gingerbread men.

They did a good job & they all turned out really cute!

Christmas Crafts

On Monday last week, Camden came over to play with Lily.
Since he doesn't always get to come over for craft day, we decided to squeeze in a craft with our playing.
We made Christmas trees!
I let them put glue dots all over their trees.
Lily likes to say, "Just a dot, not a lot!"
It is pretty cute to hear her say that over and over. =)
Then they added glitter to their glue.

They had a lot of fun with that.
They were surprisingly careful with the glitter too.
Then we added foam sticky candy canes and stars.


I think they had fun making their trees.

Then on Friday, we had our regular craft day.

Johnny couldn't come, but Camden's big brothers did!

Cooper & Carson were out of school for Christmas break already, so they got to come over too!

The first craft we made was gingerbread men.

We used foil tissue paper, glitter glue, and puff balls.
I like how each one is different!
Good job kids!!

By this time, Camden had lost interested in craft day and went off in search of trains.

But the other three got ready to make wreaths!

We used cut paper, glitter glue, & puff balls.

They did a great job!

Thanks Cooper, Carson, and Camden for coming over to do crafts with Lily!!

Christmas Art Projects

Yesterday, my nephew Ares came over, so we had Art Day with him!
We started out making handprint trees.
We painted our hands green and put three handprints on the bottom, two in the middle, and one on the top.


We added a yellow puff ball to make the star.
Then Lily added paint (using bingo markers) to make decorations to her tree.
(Ares liked his tree plain) =)

Here are their cute trees!

Then we made hand & foot print reindeer.

First we traced our hands and one foot.

After I cut out their prints for them, they glued their antlers (hands) to their heads (foot).

Then added googly eyes & a red puff ball for a red nose.

Lily had fun doing crafts with Ares!

We are looking forward to doing lots of Christmas crafts in the next few weeks!!