Giggles and Grace

{25 Days of Christmas: Day 19}

Today's books were... Christmas in the Manger by Nola Buck and Who is Coming to Our House by Joseph Slate.

Our activities for the day were supposed to be either nativity blocks or a felt nativity set. Needless to say with how busy we've been traveling, etc. I didn't get either of those things made. Instead we decorated a foam Christmas tree that Christopher got at our playdate gift exchange from his buddy Owen. Since he loves "stickies" right now I knew this would be a perfect fill in.

He also got a paint set, foam number puzzle, mini felt Christmas tree and ornaments and finger puppets/ornaments to decorate. We've played with all of these things so far and he loves to tell me who each of the gifts are from!

In case you are just joining us, here is the post with all the Christmas books.

{25 Days of Christmas: Day 18}

Our book for today was The Gingerbread Man by Catherine McCafferty.

Our activity for the day was to make Gingerbread playdough. Since this was Christopher's gift to all of his playdate buddies we had to do this Sunday evening so today we just played with some of the other activities we've done in the past few weeks. We also played with Christopher's gingerbread playdough which is the first playdough he's really gotten into, maybe because it smells so yummy?

Mixing it up!

Knead it and let it cool!

We packaged the dough in these cute containers from the Dollar Tree and included a 6 pack of Christmas cookie cutters, from the Dollar Tree, as well.

The playdough recipe can be found here.

In case you are just joining us, here is the post with all the Christmas books.

{25 Days of Christmas: Day 17}

Today's book was Jingle Bells by Veronica Vasylenko.

Our activity for the day was to make jingle bell bracelets, although I think Christopher could have just played with the container of bells all day. I gave him some pipe cleaners and let him string on as many bells as he wanted to. It turned more into putting bells on the pipe cleaner and shaking it than making a bracelet but we all had fun!

Having fun making some noise

Our "bracelet" now decorating the kitchen cabinets

In case you are just joining us, here is the post with all the Christmas books.

{25 Days of Christmas: Day 16}

Our books for the day were The Hat & The Mitten, both by Jan Brett.

Our activity for the day was matching felt mittens. I cut out twelve little mittens from felt, two of each color. When we got done reading the books I had Christopher match the mittens, although he just wanted to stick them to his felt tree, but that worked too.

In case you are just joining us, here is the post with all the Christmas books.

{25 Days of Christmas: Day 15}

Our book for the day was That's Not My Snowman by Fiona Watt.

Christopher loves, loves, loves all the books in the "That's Not My..." series. We have quite a few now thanks to yardsales and consignment shops and I was excited to find this one a few months ago at a yardsale. So far, just like the others, it's a hit!

Our activity for the day was to play with "snow" playdough (aka white playdough) and I gave him a snowman cookie cutter to explore with. He loved when Daddy came to help and they cut out seven snowman from his playdough!