Twelve Days til Christmas

Craft Time: It's time to make some cookies with your kids. You can either make your own dough from scratch or buy the ready to bake sugar cookie dough from the store. We opted for the ready to bake since I am a big fan of making life easier at this time of year. Even your young kids can help decorate the cookies. I put my 14 month old in her high chair and put the colored sprinkles in the tray. She had fun spreading them around before I gave her the cookies. Then I showed her how if you lay the cookie on the tray, move it around on the sprinkles, when you life it up it is covered in sprinkles. She picked up on it immediately and was incredibly pleased with herself with every cookie she decorated. The picture is of one of her creations.


Art Time: Using finger paints, teach your kids how to make thumbprint people. They can then make them into Santa and his elves. Dip their thumb in red paint for Santa then press on paper. Use green for the elves. After the paint is dried, they can use crayons to color in the rest of the characters features (face, arms, legs, etc.) and the scene - Santa's workshop maybe?


Story Time: Keep reading those Christmas stories. Only twelve more days to go! ;)


Indoor Time: Break out the bubbles and find a room where you don't mind bubbles popping on your floor - most likely your kitchen.


Music Time: Since it is now twelve days til Christmas, teach your kids the Twelve Days of Christmas today. Here is a link with music too, if you need the words.

Twelve Days of Christmas

Outdoor Time: We haven't been able to go outside and play since we got hit with the ice storm. But if my kids could, I would just take them outside and have them run! They opted for running back and forth on the couch this afternoon! If your weather permits, let your kids enjoy the simple art of running. Make it a race, telling them you bet they can't beat you - then let them!