Having set myself the rather ambitious task of doing an advent activity a day with The Boy, I then needed to find a good selection of activities to do with him that wouldn't require copious amounts of glitter and images of Father Christmas (or I'd go mad!).
Luckily, I was sent a copy of this book by Sarah Goldschadt:
Inside 'Craft-A-Day' is a craft activity for every day of the year, but it's very cleverly split into weeks featuring crafts surrounding one image or theme. And at the beginning of each week, a template is provided for that theme so it becomes even easier to do simple and effective craft with your children.
Next week's craft theme is 'Gingerbread Men':
It's a brilliant idea to enable parents to do crafts with their children, and I'm really looking forward to dipping into it with The Boy and choosing some great activities to complete.
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We made 'melt and pour' soaps with little animals embedded in them – Christmas presents for his little friends!
The last thing we made was some beautiful twig decorations for our Christmas tree.
I don't think they'd appreciate being called little ones…but we have all been making felt Christmas decorations this week. The book looks like a great place to find templates to make more felt goodies.
Reindeer handprints
Jewellery
Today we made Pop-up Angels from paper plates
A snowman puppet
A cake! we make lots of cake! lol. going to be making saltdough tree decorations tomorrow!
christmas cards
We made some decorations for the xmas tree x
Christmas cards for the Grandparents and neighbours
A sock puppet, great fun!
crimbly decs
Dinner! (And if you're interested, it was Spag Bol!)
A Christmas card for Grandma and Grandad!
Clothes for my daughter's Sylvanian family figures, some were more stylish than others!!
today we have been making an advent wreath for my son's school 🙂
Cookies 🙂 x
A mega block tower skyscraper…look out designers in Dubai!
Christmas cards to everyone!
We made paper Christmas lanterns 🙂
We made handprint calendars at toddlers this morning.
Cakes.
We made some salt dough Christmas decorations
we made a pirate hat the other day, not done any xmassy crafts so far actually! i dont think i do enough crafts but this book sounds great and hopefully would help us do a bit more
We are currently in the middle of making gifts for Aly's teachers
we made angels at playgroup for the church ! we are going to the church to hang them up n friday ! im not very crafty i just need some inspiration to get me going this book looks amazing !
salt dough hand print robins 🙂
Salt dough Santa decorations x
Christmas cards
Gingerbread and gingerbread lattes for Daddy!
salt dough xmas tree decorations x
its been a while here but we last made cards together x
Christmas wreaths for the school Christmas Fayre.
Fingerpainted Christmas cards for all our friends and family
A tiger sculpture
Cookies!
A pen castle
Christmas cards
Mini Snow Angels and Christmas trees yesterday.x
We made an angel for the top of our Christmas Tree xx
Christmas cards
We made some Christmas ornaments for the tree 🙂
Christmas paper chains x
Play dough 🙂
Handprint tree decorations!
we've just finished decorating a 'christmas jumper' for a competition at my sons school
Thank you cards this afternoon – for my twins crafty birthday presents
xmas paper chains
Moshi Monster cookies. Great fun and tasty!
we made bracelets. this book looks fab!
snoflakes out of paper
I made some paper snowflakes whilst D tried to eat them! Bit young to help out yet 🙂
christmas cards
snowmen from toilet rolls and cotton wool
I work in a school – so we made pirate maps for the children. They buried treasure on a square and had to write directions. (they all got a little gift at the end if they could find it) 🙂 Loved it. They sound like brilliant activities you can do with any age too 🙂 xx
Last night we made macaroni cheese and before that we made a panda pencil case because she loves pandas so much x
my big one ( 15 ) showed me how to make some christmas decoration
This year's Christmas cards – we always make our own. It's great fun thinking up the theme and getting all the craft materials out.
PomPoms
christmas tree decorations in the shape of their hands
We made Christmas decorations, the ones where you cut strips of coloured paper & make chains.
It was something we always did as kids & made us feel already for Christmas
A snake, made from all sorts of odds and ends 🙂
salt dough christmas decorations
A spongebob cake!
paperchains, and an advent calender
Fairy Cakes
The last thing we made was paper chains using pretty vintage paper, they look really stylish and were simple and mess free which is always a bonus
A christmas card.
Last thing we made were canvas foot prints but will be making the christmas tree decorations this week.
Melting Moments biscuits. I used to make them with my mum and am continuing the tradition
Christmas cards – still finding bits of glitter everywhere!
Some papr angels to hang at their window 🙂
They are making paper chains as I type this
Christmas cards
We made giant paperchains to decorate the house
We made a OTT, heavily decorated crown for my little dressing up fiend. After our conversation the other day this could provide some much needed inspiration!
we made a ginger house but failed terriblely!
Christmas Cards!!
Little Christmas stockings
We made special Christmas cards on canvas using hand and foot prints from the little ones to make reindeer then Daddy and I did thumb print red noses!
A gingerbread house!
We made melted bead ornaments!
The last thing we made were some decorations for the christmas tree sewn using felt and embroidery threads.
cakes 🙂
today we did a Christmas tree painting, I drew the outline with a marker and she painted the rest.
We made Rock Cakes 🙂
We made cupcakes and decorated with Christmas sprinkles! 🙂 x
Christmas cards.
We made glittery Christmas cards 😉