This year is the first year my daughter is into Christmas. And I mean INTO Christmas. She is obsessed with Santa and reindeer and lights and snowmen and snowflakes and decorations....all of that. She even wrote her first letter to Santa this year...
Cute, right? She doesn't quite get the point, but it's still one of my all time favorite pictures.
She tells me nearly every day "I'm so excited for Christmas, Mommy!" I put up our very first Christmas decoration a week or so ago. It's an unexciting, non-sparkly, non-shiny paper chain type advent calendar we were given at church. After I hung it up, Sofia stared at it in awe for a few moments. Then she ran to me and gave me a hug, whispering "Thank you, Mommy" in my ear. I'm almost afraid of what she'll do when I put up the tree.
I know I've only got a couple years of this and I plan to take full advantage. I'm going full in to Crazy Christmas Mommy mode. I want to cram in as many Christmas activities as I can without blowing our budget or losing our minds. Besides the local NWA events I have in our lineup, I also want to do some age-appropriate holiday crafts. I want some keepsakes so that when all she wants for Christmas is an envelope of cash as she heads out the door to meet her friends (yeah, dream on, Sofia, it's not happening) I will remember this magic age.
Below is a list of crafts I plan to try this year. She's 3 and I've tried to pick things I think she can actually do. I think kid's crafts should be done by the kid, as much as possible - the exception being handprints/footprints. There's really no rhyme or reason to the list I've assembled. It's just a list of things I want to try to do with my daughter. I'll post follow-up posts for things we do and let you know how it goes! If you've got any other ideas for crafts I must try, tell me in the comments and maybe we'll add that to our list!
No Cook Cinnamon Ornaments
Peppermint Candy Christmas Ornaments
Handprint Snowmen
Pompom Ornaments (scroll down towards the bottom)
Snowflake Art
Fingerprint Christmas Lights
Marshmallow Snowman
Melted Crayon Ornaments
