Tiny Tots -- Gingerbread... Tree?

Today's project is actually a cooking project, well, kind of. We are making a Christmas tree out of edible materials. Kind of like making a gingerbread house. This is actually a pretty interesting and easy project. For the cone shaped tree, we used icecream waffle cones. Cover it with some green dyed frosting and use sprinkles and M&M's as the ornaments. The majority of the work was completed by me while Katie snacks on a tiny piece of waffle, but she definitely did the sprinkle part, as proven in the photo. Katie wasn't thrilled about eating the tree, as a matter of fact she didn't even finish eating her tiny piece of cone, I guess not letting her eat sweets still paid off in situations like this. The rest of the class all devoured the entire tree before their moms had a chance to finish the trees. That why she ended up with the best looking tree which mom had plenty of time to work on. :p

Tiny Tots -- Christmas gift bag and photo frame ornament

Katie's Tiny Tots class is making two projects this time. We started out with decorating a Christmas gift bag with a Christmas tree cut out. Katie does her usual bingo bottle dots on it.

The next project is more exciting for Katie because she loves to play with those little knick knacks used to decorate the frame. That frame was quickly destroyed when taken home, because she peels everything off to play with again.

Surprisingly today she asked me to put on her flower shirt for her and actually asked me to take off her favorite Blue's Clues' shirt. She even let me put a skirt on her, what a shock. Of course I have to take a picture of her.

Christmas at Ardenwood

One of the special events in December of Ardenwood Farm is the Christmas at Ardenwood. Some good old fashion music and puppet shows, and tons of arts and crafts project. I definitely had a lot of fun doing many of the arts and crafts, they are a bit too advance for Katie, but she definitely enjoys the end products. I learned how to make a Danish Heart this day, and here is a picture of Katie holding the woolly lamb I made her.

There were also arts and crafts like making cards and ornaments, corn husk angels, and tying your own mistletoe, which by the way after I looked up online, I found out that mistletoes are poisonous and I took it away from Katie, just in case she ingest any.

And we got our picture with Santa:

This is also the first time I toured the inside of Patterson House, it was fully decorated for Christmas.