Fun Christmas crafts

Here's some pics of our fun craft times we've been having. These are pics of the stockings we made. I found this neat craft foam kit at Hobby Lobby that had foam stickers the kids were able to put on the stockings (with a little help). They loved it and we've had them proudly displayed.

We also made Christmas ornaments last week. I got this idea from the Santa Day that we went to for Steve's work. The kids loved it, though it was pretty messy as you can see. Anything involving glue usually goes over well with them though. We tried to make three, one for each set of grandparents and one for home, though some of them got bored before they got all three made.

Santa Day 2008

Steve's work has a Santa Day every year for the employees and their kids. We have gone every year since Grace was born. This was probably the best year because she was old enough to actually do the crafts and enjoy it. She had a blast and I think Steve did too. He kept shuttling us from one craft to another. When we were done we went up to see Santa but weren't able to get very close to him. The first year we went was the only year we have been able to get a picture and it was of her reaching for me and screaming. Oh, well, maybe she will be more open to sitting on his lap next year!

Holiday fun with the daycare kiddos

We made cookies yesterday. So much fun, and so messy. I wish I had thought to take some pics, but at the time I was too busy going from one kiddo to the next, rolling dough and showing them how to use the cookie cutters. Grace had already made cookies with Nana Glenda last year and both Nanas this year, so she didn't need much help, but the others seemed to think that the dough was Playdough, so they kept trying to make shapes with it and using the cutters wrong. It was pretty cute. I showed them how to use them, but they didn't really care, they were having their own fun doing it their own way. You have to love the creativity that 3 year olds display. I took a video of them singing Christmas carols too, I will figure out how to post them and put it on-too cute!