Since I haven't paid to post more pictures and haven't done anything more than download wordpress, I will link to the picture of our "countdown calendar" here.
It is really simple. I googled "free mini envelope template" and chose one I wanted. Then, I printed it out at 60% since even though they all said mini and I unchecked "fit to page", they still were giant. Once printed and cut, I traced 24 on Christmas scrapbook paper. Angelo actually cut most of them out and helped to fold them. After the glue dried, I put in strips of paper (cut from one sheet printed from Word) with an activity that would work for that day. Some are simple and could be done any day and some are days that I will need to be teaching or taking advantage of weekend hours to make gifts and DH will take Angelo out for a while. This was one of my rare moments of planning every day for a month. The last time was this time last year... and I still switched some activities as needed.
So, the list includes:
See holiday trees at the Carnegie art museum
Put up our tree
Make gingerbread houses at the library
Make small crafty gifts
Make cards
See gingerbread houses on display at Market Square
Help make gifts for our baby and baby cousins
Ride Shenley Santa train
Make hot chocolate (from scratch) and read a Xmas book (we checked out a bunch from the library)
Decorate paper grocery bags for gift wrap
Package, address, stamp and mail gifts and cards (he's been getting a big kick out of writing things out for family, so it's not as boring as it may initially sound.)
See "Wreck it Ralf"
Put up lights
Make ornaments
Train ride at Station Square
Science kit (been saving one- he loves them!)
See "The Guardians"
Make cookies
Color and glitter Christmas coloring sheets (tons of free printables out there)
Make a mixed media winter/holiday themed painting
Eat a cookie and read a Xmas book (we'll read these as he's interested too, but the cookie will be a little extra something)
Go to open art studio at the library
See miniature railroad at the Carnegie Science Center
Open one present
Since we have a membership to the Carnegie museums and we have all the materials/ingredients for making things, really only the Shenley Santa train ride (not very expensive at all), the train at Station square (only $1) and the movies (ok, movies are expensive these days) cost anything. But, we will all have fun and spend lots of family focused time together.
Since all this making and fun-having will take up a lot of time and since I'm likely transitioning my blog elsewhere, I'll be taking a bit of a break here. Be sure to check back to see where the Vinegar and Glitter blog ends up! :)
It is really simple. I googled "free mini envelope template" and chose one I wanted. Then, I printed it out at 60% since even though they all said mini and I unchecked "fit to page", they still were giant. Once printed and cut, I traced 24 on Christmas scrapbook paper. Angelo actually cut most of them out and helped to fold them. After the glue dried, I put in strips of paper (cut from one sheet printed from Word) with an activity that would work for that day. Some are simple and could be done any day and some are days that I will need to be teaching or taking advantage of weekend hours to make gifts and DH will take Angelo out for a while. This was one of my rare moments of planning every day for a month. The last time was this time last year... and I still switched some activities as needed.
So, the list includes:
See holiday trees at the Carnegie art museum
Put up our tree
Make gingerbread houses at the library
Make small crafty gifts
Make cards
See gingerbread houses on display at Market Square
Help make gifts for our baby and baby cousins
Ride Shenley Santa train
Make hot chocolate (from scratch) and read a Xmas book (we checked out a bunch from the library)
Decorate paper grocery bags for gift wrap
Package, address, stamp and mail gifts and cards (he's been getting a big kick out of writing things out for family, so it's not as boring as it may initially sound.)
See "Wreck it Ralf"
Put up lights
Make ornaments
Train ride at Station Square
Science kit (been saving one- he loves them!)
See "The Guardians"
Make cookies
Color and glitter Christmas coloring sheets (tons of free printables out there)
Make a mixed media winter/holiday themed painting
Eat a cookie and read a Xmas book (we'll read these as he's interested too, but the cookie will be a little extra something)
Go to open art studio at the library
See miniature railroad at the Carnegie Science Center
Open one present
Since we have a membership to the Carnegie museums and we have all the materials/ingredients for making things, really only the Shenley Santa train ride (not very expensive at all), the train at Station square (only $1) and the movies (ok, movies are expensive these days) cost anything. But, we will all have fun and spend lots of family focused time together.
Since all this making and fun-having will take up a lot of time and since I'm likely transitioning my blog elsewhere, I'll be taking a bit of a break here. Be sure to check back to see where the Vinegar and Glitter blog ends up! :)
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You are the second person who is having problems with posting pictures. I had no idea there was a limit. meh
ReplyDeleteWill be waiting to see your new blog. ;-)
I was surprised to see the notice, but it's been a while since I started this blog. Maybe the initial agreement said something and I forgot. meh indeed!
DeleteThanks for hanging in there with me, Birdie! :)