Logan and I got crafty for the holidays. Logan enjoyed decorating the gingerbread house and creating holiday sun catchers. He changed the salt ornament activity into a pouring and mixing fest. Two activities I thought he would dive into turned out to be flops (stained glass nativity scene and decorating paper plate christmas trees.) Nevertheless, the craftiness filled the house with the holiday spirit.
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| Assembling and decorating the gingerbread house. |
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| The finished product. |
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| For the salt ornament activity, we used food coloring to color epsom salts (the jars in the foreground are the result). But Logan just really wanted to color water, dump, and pour. So that's what we did, |
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| After dressing as a superman firefighter, Logan was ready to tackle the task of making the salt ornaments. |
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| A flop activity. I thought Logan would love using his fine motor skills to place colored tissue paper onto the sticky part of the nativity scene. (Seriously, he really likes to pick up small things and put them in place). After three tries, he was onto reading about Santa. |
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| Our finished "stained glass" nativity scene (with a lot of promoting and helping from mom). |
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| Here Logan is using his fine motor skills to place beads in the cookie cutters. |
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| Pouring glue into the cookie cutters was a lots of fun! |
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| Holiday Sun Catchers |
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| The other flop activity. Painting the paper plates green, to create christmas trees, |
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| Again, I thought Logan would enjoy glueing beads or small pieces of pipe cleaners onto the tree for decoration. He managed to put lots of glue dots on the tree, but not very many decorations. |
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