Candy Canes & Christmas Trees!

Marble-painting a candy cane - a smaller box/tray would probably work better!

Carlie had fun with some container painting!  We used a large, plastic Christmas ornament instead of a marble inside hers!

Haddy's candy cane (sorry so blurry!)

Carlie's candy cane (sorry so blurry!)

Similar to something I saw on pinterest, we used a marker to color foil to make a Christmas tree.

Instead of bending it into a triangle, we fluted them up like trumpets and stacked the layers.  H had fun re-stacking them!

This was a fun tree made using coffee filters.  I showed H how to color colored circles on the coffee filters & then I helped her scribble over the whole thing in green.  We sprayed with a water bottle & laid out on towels to dry before folding & taping them down (and adding stars and other stickers for decoration)!

Thumbprint Christmas lights cards!

H painted her salt-dough ornaments all by herself!

A popsicle stick Christmas tree!

We used a bingo-type dabber to paint them (she did this all herself!)

We added star and smiley face stickers for decoration!

A special card for the girls' special librarian!  Haddy helped by putting the yarn on the glue in the manger!

Both girls liked watching the plastic Christmas ornaments wiggle and jiggle inside the muffin tin!

This has been a favorite pastime of Carlie's for the last couple weeks: She loves to watch the balls roll around inside the metal bowl & then bang them on the side!  She also likes to look at herself in it when it's turned upside-down!

We painted the bottom of the paper plate green & then added dots of other colors for decorations.  I cut it out in a spiral and...

voila!

Christmastime is here!

Sorry for the lapse in posts again! No real reason, the little one has just felt like building with blocks and her kitchen rather than doing any crafts!

This is a build-your-own-snowman that I printed off of this website - Even though it says you can print right from their site, I found that the pic was much too small! I copied the pic and enlarged it in a Word document first! I laminated the pieces with lamination

Bathroom door snowman!

Moved the arms to look a bit more realistic! He still needs a hat, though!

Making (and throwing) snowballs from paper! Great fine-motor work!

Carlie likes to make snowballs, too (though she was more interested in trying to eat it!)

Tortilla snowflakes - I used the small (soft taco) size tortillas and folded them in fourths.  I used a cheese spreader to make small cuts in the shapes that H told me to!  I tried to get her to try also, but she wasn't interested!

We sprayed them with cooking spray then H sprinkled on the cinnamon sugar.  We baked at 300 degrees for 15 minutes and they were baked to crunchy perfection!  Great "cookie" activity for non-bakers!