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From gift giving and service to decorating & creating the Christmas atmosphere in our home to the true meaning and story of Christmas. I love Christmas for so many reasons, and I want her to experience the joy of the season. This year I really want to do a lot of Christmas activities with Talia leading up to Christmas. We got a chocolate advent calendar and had fun opening all of the doors in one shot, to get the chocolates out and put them in our own calendar :) She folded the names & put them in the cups.ħ. We printed the page, I cut the names out.

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I told her how to spell their names, she typed them out. We took some computer time and we decided who she wanted to make Christmas cards for this year. We decorated with some of our previously made paper snowflakes (we took turns gluing- she was getting tired of it, but wanted to direct my placement ).Ħ. I cut a piece of blue construction paper, Talia covered one side with glue, I stuck it to our shiny board.Ĥ. I cut a piece of tinfoil for Talia to wrap around a piece of cardboard.ģ.

Over the last couple of days, we've been making paper snowflakes.ġ. On Saturday, Talia & I went to a local restaurant supply store and picked up some plastic shot glasses. I got the idea from Filth Wizardry, and posted about it in my Christmas Ideas post a few days ago. Today we made ourselves an advent calendar!! I'm also planning to make a larger version of it with her as we get closer to Christmas. I have a feeling that cardboard tree will continue to get more and more decorated as the days go on. she loved using pom poms because she saw them days ago & has been waiting for her chance to use them! Here's what Katrina got to do while Talia was painting (I tried letting her at the finger paint at first, but it went in her mouth so fast, I quickly changed the plan & let her at some babyfood instead! :) I also made a little green paper cone out of construction paper for her (I got the idea from Ikat, through The Crafty Crow, where you can find a bunch of cute advent ideas here) and let her decorate it realized mixing red with green made brown, and experimented - decorated the tree with stickers and sequins I cut out a Christmas Tree shape from a cereal box-type of cardboard, and Talia Talia made a couple of Christmas trees today: I would definitely recommend using ribbon with some good wire on the edges, to keep the shape of the bow! not sure how much was on each one! (And I didn't get the back corner of the tree completed, but you can't tell anyway )

Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to how much ribbon I bought- just that I got two spools. I was really happy with the result! I think I may have to buy some nice Christmas ribbon for the tree during Christmas time, because I really like the way bows look on the tree! Then I threaded a twist tie through the back of each bow, to secure it onto the tree. (It's funny- I can tie a nice bow in a sash, but when the ribbon wasn't already attached to something, I had to google the right method, to get it right!). I looked up how to tie a simple bow, on the Martha Stewart website, here. We'll have a pink tree for a week or so, until her birthday, and then we'll start decorating it for Christmas :) This way, I can get Christmas decorations up early without feeling like it's 'taking over' her birthday. We're going to make this a tradition since her birthday is in early December. In honour of Katrina's 1st Birthday, I decided to make pink bows for our Christmas tree.