Oranges and Sticks

Yesterday I cooked and dried some orange slices...

...and Papa drilled some holes in some sticks.  

Sounds like an odd day...

...but we did it so the children could make these cute Christmas decorations today!  They even have little bells on and they smell awesome too.

And then we used ribbons and the remaining sticks to decorate a tree in the garden.

This afternoon we took out 50 library books, took our car to the garage to watch our two front tyres get changed, Ballet Girl wrote a beautiful Christmas story, Monkey Girl read for hours and this evening Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl have gone rock climbing. All in a day's work :)

Advent Fun

The children have been designing these sweet mini stockings

I can't remember where I picked this up last year but it's a lovely, simple daily task sheet to prepare for Christmas

 I dug out our Reasons to Be Thankful poster from last year and we have started a new one for this Advent too.  Monkey Girl is thankful be getting to be alive and I love that!  

Spray painting.

Learning how to make play-do with Mummy

The children then used sweet wrappers (kindly donated by chocolate fan, Mummy) to make their own sweets with the play-do.  The Boy opened his own sweet shop and made a fortune I believe.

Mummy and The Boy made a massive bauble.

The Boy made this adorable sheep....

...and everybody had a go at making a beautiful moon for Santa silhouettes.  

Today The Boy finished his first ever book.  He was utterly thrilled!

Panda Girl received this wonderful gift for her Birthday so we chose a Jack Frost poem from it for our poetry work today.

After trampolining class today the children discovered an enormous pile of leaves...  Monkey Girl accidentally brought an awful lot home in her hair. :)

Nanny Mo's Surprise Birthday Gathering & Trip to a Children's Concert

Panda Girl's Mad Scientist Party

This was months in the making but what fun we had!