We’ve been doing quite a few Christmas crafts this month – mainly stolen from Pinterest I will admit – but this one I just thought up when I bought some eggs in a green box. Egg box Christmas trees! (Obviously with a plain egg box they would need painting too). It does involve a little adult help for cutting the cones from the egg box and possibly putting the glue on them, but the sticking allows children to be creative with their trees and makes a very simple enjoyable activity. This is suitable for pre-schoolers and toddlers, as even Noah …
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Our Easter Plans – Family, Chocolate, and Crafts!
Before we had children, hubby & I didn’t really celebrate Easter or do anything for it – apart from buy each other lots of chocolate and stuff ourselves silly with it! When J arrived in the world, he was only a few weeks old when his first Easter came around, so yet again we didn’t really ‘celebrate’. It was only last year that I decided to make our own celebration of it, and I prepared him an Easter basket; N had arrived in the world a few weeks before too, so we had to dress him as a bunny, of …
Our Easter 2014
Since little man J arrived, he has actually seen two Easter holidays. The first year, he was only a few weeks old, so he received nothing at all, and last year, he had just turned one, so he received a couple of eggs from family and some clothes from us. This year, I wanted to make it a bit more fun, so I made him a special basket full of goodies (he had no big eggs from us, as he got them from family again). (Next year, though, we will probably have an egg hunt as there will be both …
Christmas crafts – Salt dough decorations
I decided this year that I wanted my Christmas tree to consist of more handmade/homemade and traditional decorations, rather than my usual modern pink & silver look. I was looking around Pinterest for some decoration ideas and there was a lot of salt dough – I’ve never tackled it before so thought I would give it a go with little man. I especially wanted to make hand print Santa’s – turns out little man didn’t and he just kept trying to eat it! I figured that he wasn’t going to cooperate this year so I did them all myself in …