We made these cute little name snowmen to hang on the door. An easy, fun, even somewhat educational craft. I think we made it through this one with no panic attacks from our daughter. I wrote the letters of their name in pencil and they traced over it with marker. They really enjoyed handing them to me in order to hang on the wall. Mackenna thinks it is pretty cool that she gets to be so tall.
We also did this fairly failed craft:
I saw it on Pinterest. It was a mixture of half glue and half shaving cream - it was supposed to dry puffy. I think it might have worked better if they would have been willing to paint it on think. However, they wanted to smooth it out. She also got really frustrated when she didn't make it perfect. She wants her abilities to be higher than anyone else expects them to be, that is for sure. Needless to say, it looks a little more like a melted Florida snowman than anything else.
Tonight we made salt dough ornaments. We used the recipe from here. It was basically flour, salt, and water mixed and kneaded for quite a while. We did handprints for each of the kids and then they each got to cut out some cookie cutter shapes as well.
They looked like this after they were baked.
Tonight we painted the handprints. The twins painted the white and red parts of Santa. Curt added the faces and lines.
I like the way they turned out. You can see the three year old aspect to the art; I didn't want to take away from that. But the added lines and details make them something the kids will really be excited to have on the tree.
We had also done an extra handprint of Jocelyn, and Curt made this family ornament to celebrate our first Christmas as a family of five.
I love having an artist for a husband!
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