Tagged Christmas Activities

Who doesn’t like to make paper snowflakes? I’ve spent many an afternoon as a child and a nanny making them. Normally we make the flat ones, but this year we have been experimenting with making medallion snowfla...

My family seem to have some sort of competition with each other about which household has the most Scandinavian gnomes at Christmas. It has become slightly ridiculous, my Mum phoned me this week to let me know ...

If there is one thing we have plenty of during this period, it’s cardboard boxes and cardboard packaging. It’s about time I create a new Christmas themed busy bag, so I used a discarded box and turned it into a...

Like our Harry Potter decorations, we always seem to make some sort of snowman decoration each year. This year we have made some really cute wooden bead snowmen ornaments for our tree. YC and I had enjoyable ev...

I really like reproducing some of the Christmas decorations that I had on my Christmas tree growing up. One of my favourite were these pine cone angels that my parents got in South Korea when we lived there. We...

Earlier this year we used did an Easter tissue paper painting activity. The one difficulty with using tissue paper to paint with is that not all tissue paper bleeds its colour out. I was thinking of how to get ...

It is that time again to make some Christmas cards for teachers and friends. Each year I ask my charges how many cards they want to make, and each year that number gets bigger and bigger! This year’s design is ...

Every year we seem to make at least one Harry Potter inspired Christmas tree decoration. At some point I will be able to decorate my whole tree as a Harry Potter themed one. Pretty soon after making last years ...