Tickled Pink: Christmas Craft Fun!

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Christmas Craft Fun!

We moved out to Kyle's parents condo in Stonewall on Nov 23rd. It was a crazy busy day packing up our stuff and getting the girls out here. We are settled in now and are excited to move into our new house this Saturday.

So much concentration

Right handed

Claire and I have been keeping busy with Christmas crafts during the day. On Sunday Evan and Emily were over with Scott and Susie to watch the Grey Cup. They brought with them a package of paints, wooden ornaments and brushes to paint and decorate with. Claire loved painting with the kids while the game was on, Susie and I couldn't believe how quiet they were. She was so proud of her ornaments. Even Kyle and I painted one each. It's very relaxing!

Claire's Finished Ornaments

Last week I started to make a Christmas matching game for Claire to play. I have made them for fall and Halloween. I draw pictures that represent that holiday and write the matching word, cut them out and put them in an envelope or ziplock bag. When she's ready to play we lay them out facing up and she needs to match the word with the picture. She has gotten better at hearing the beginning sound of the word and matching it with the letter. It's a great way to introduce vocabulary, work on letter sounds and letter recognition. I just finished making the rest of the pictures and words today. We played the matching game this morning while Abby was napping, Claire would get so excited when she matched the right word with the picture.

Claire is trying to find the word candy cane

Claire matching the words with the pictures

I just love colouring

After we decided to make snowflake decorations for the window at the condo. I had some leftover paper dolies from Valentine's Day that I thought would make perfect snowflakes. I cut them out and let Claire decorate them with different coloured markers. We tied them with string and hung them up on the front window. They're so pretty!