As I’m sure you all have noticed, it seems as though as soon as November 1st comes around, it’s out with the Halloween decorations and in with the Christmas decorations. Ridiculous, right?! Well, Hillwood and I decided to succumb to this and get the kids to construct their very own Christmas Village! Each week the kids make a different part of the village and, by Christmas time, it should all come together to create a very festive piece! For the first part of this project, the kids were all aboard and constructed a very vital part of any Christmas village…the Polar Express. Each one of them was able to help build and decorate one car and everyone was thrilled with the outcome!
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| Decorating the sides of the Polar Express. |
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| A very festive looking train. |
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| All Aboard! |
Last week, the kids were very hands-on with the continuation of our Christmas Village. We decided the village needed some greenery, and what is Christmas without a Christmas tree? They started out by creating a giant tree for the centre of the village using cut-outs of their hands for the branches. The kids, of course, started to get really excited about things they find under their trees at home and so we decided to write a Christmas wish on one of their hand cut-outs that wasn’t a present. “I wish for it to not rain on Christmas so Santa won’t get wet!” was Logan’s instant response. After the big tree was finished, they each made a smaller freestanding tree to bring the feeling of the outdoors to the village. The kids were already asking to build the stores and houses, but we’ll have to save that for another week.
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| Getting messy with some glitter and glue. |
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| The final product. |
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| Tada! |
Kirsten
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