Holiday Kid Craft Link Up | Week 14

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope your holiday weekend is super wonderful!

Welcome to the Holiday Kid Craft Link Up Week 14,

Next week will be the final week.

The idea of the Holiday Kid Craft Link Up is to link up any Fall, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter, New Years, any holiday or seasonal craft from now until the end of December.

• The craft must be kid friendly
• Do not link up your giveaways
• Submit the url of your post, not the blog's main page
• Include my button if you wish or link to me please
• Visit other blogs, this way we can all learn a new craft for our kids 
• Your kids craft can be a new craft or one from your archives
• Please link to where you found the craft from if it's not your original          

We have been sharing our Advent calender over the last few weeks.

We are now finished, even  though we did not complete last weekend, because

the children are not here. We didn't double up, it's been a busy week.

The Advent Calender has been fun!

Advent Calender Day 19- Make Beaded  Ornaments

 We had a blast with these. So much fun!

 Below, the wreath's were made with Tri-Beads from craftprojectideas.com.

Advent Calender Day 20 - Christmas Picture

Advent Calender Day 21- Our Christmas Party

 I made Reindeer Noses

 and North Pole Cup Cakes for the kiddos.

Advent Calender Day 22 - Ribbon Christmas Tress

Advent Calender Day 23 - Make Christmas Cards for Mom and Dad

These are their hand prints on the front 

and on the inside their Christmas photo we took Tuesday.

Now it's your turn to link up your craftiness,

this link will be open until Thursday at midnight.

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing each week,

Lori

Advent Calender Days 10,11, & 12

Today I'm posting days 10, 11, & 12 of our Advent Calender!

Day 10: Painting Pine Cones

 We gathered the supplies:
pine cones
white paint
paint brushes
paint trays
Glitter Shakers provided to us from craftprojectideas which was perfect for this craft!

 Paint the pine cone

 Shake on the glitter

 Beautiful to display anywhere!

Day 11: Making Simple Snowmen

We gathered our supplies:
white cardstock
black and orange  construction paper
scissors
glue

I used a plate to trace the a circle for the snowman's face
a small top to trace his eyes and I free handed the carrot nose and his mouth

The children glued in place. One child can cut pretty good by his self. I helped the tots.

Very simple for them and they loved it! I found this at School Time Snippets, she used paper plates instead of cutting out cardstock. I just didn't have any paper plates.

Day 12: Making Paper Snowflakes

 Supplies we used:
paper and scissors

 fold paper in half and cut edges, and in center. Continue to fold and cut until you can't cut anymore.

Now I realize this isn't round like a snowflake, but I was trying to show seven children today. Only two could cut really well. So I  am very pleased with the results and so were they. I'm working very hard with the tots on learning to hold the scissors the proper way to be able to cut. We had so much paper on the floor, it looked like it snowed in my house! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the the time to leave a comment! :)
Lori

Advent Calender Day 6 | Little Tree

It's Day 6 of  our Advent Calender. 
Today we had to color a Christmas page.
But first I wanted to read this book called 
Little Tree
By: E.E. Cummings

I just love the illustrations in this book!

It has a wonderful poem at the beginning of the book.  Little Tree dreams of being a Christmas tree someday. One day a little family brought little tree to their little house and hung little lights and little ornaments on Little Tree. Now Little Tree has his own Little Home.

After reading the book I gave the children a picture of Little Tree in the little city to paint with water colors. I drew this last night and made copies for each child. It's the same picture from the front of the book, well almost. :)

 I think they came out great!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Lori

Advent Calender Day 5 | Dream Snow

Today's Advent Calender activity said to read a Christmas Book. 

The book we chose was

Dream Snow

by Eric Carle

This is a musical book about a farmer who celebrates Christmas after the first snowfall. 

After he awakens from a dream he discovers that it really has snowed, puts on his red suit and brings gifts to the animals and places them under the musical tree.

On the last page they show a bare tree with ornaments, tinsel and gifts under the musical tree. For our craft we were to replicate the musical tree. We were going to add gifts, but the tots said "I'm done!" So we were done. :)

To make the tree I traced cut out a bare tree on thin cardboard.

The children colored it brown and added spangles for the ornaments and silver glitter glue for tinsel. Maybe will we gets gifts under the tree later.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Lori

As soon as I can locate this photo, I will replace it! :(

Advent Calender Day 3 and Day 4 | With my Grandson

My grandson is vising this weekend. I introduced him to our Advent Calender. He loved the idea so we completed Day 3 and 4 today. We were busy yesterday and he had pictures made with Santa. So we caught up today.

Advent Calender Day 3-Making a Christmas Paper Chain

Advent Calender Day 4: Making a Bottle Snowman

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Lori

Advent Calender Day 2 | Tree Ornament

Yesterday we posted our first Advent Calender activity, and which almost immediately it was featured on Craft Gossip! Yay, so exciting! Be sure and check out our craft.

For Day 2 the activity was to make a Tree Ornament and watch a Christmas movie. We watch O' Christmas which is about a bear cub who could not sleep through Winter because of his parents snoring. So he decides to go exploring because he has never seen the snow.

Today we made a Tree Ornament for the Christmas tree. I found this craft at Mermaids' Makings, an Egg Carton Christmas Tree.

Gather the supplies:

cardboard egg carton-I used one from a 2 1/2  dozen size
scissors
green tempera paint
paint  brushes
spangles and buttons-not shown
tot trays
ribbon
glue
hot glue

After the carton was cut they began painting all the carton pieces.

 Below I cut holes in some to hang with ribbon. This is the top of tree ornament.

 Next I used the hot glue gun to glue the carton pieces on top of one another. Then the kids began to decorate with buttons and spangles.

And that's it, a Christmas Tree Christmas Ornament.

I did a Guest Post at Cachey Mama's Classroom on how to make a Reindeer Christmas Ornament. Make sure and stop by.

Before you leave enter to Win a Chalk Board Roll Up Mat! Just in time for Christmas giving. Ends Monday the 5th.

Thanks for stopping by,

Advent Calender Day 1| Pine Cone Christmas Tree

This year I made the children an Advent Calender filled with activities to count down to Christmas. Each day is filled out even though they are only here five days a week. We will double up and my grandson is here some weekends and this can be for him to do as well.


Our first craft is a Pine Cone Christmas Tree. They love Pine Cones and this was simple and working on those fine motor skills.




First gather  supplies. 
I received a box of craft supplies from craftprojectideas.com, and this large bag of pom poms were in the box,  all different sizes and colors. Which made it perfect for this craft.

pine cones
pom poms
glue
tot trays

They started by adding glue around the pine cone and placing pom poms on.

End it by adding a large sparkly pom pom on top!

Simple and very enjoyable craft they can take home and display on the mantle, shelf, or in their bedroom.

Make sure to visit Cachey Mama's Classroom to read my Guest post  on how to make a Reindeer Craft.

Before you leave make sure to enter my giveaway for a Chalk Board Roll Up Mat from an Etsy seller. Just in time for Christmas giving.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Lori