Christmas crafts 2013

Some days are left before Christmas and New Year 2014. As I already mentioned before preparations with Karolina this year were amazing and here are the crafts which we made with her:

So, as you can see we made a big family of Reindeers-) Karolina wanted to make the family which consists of mum, dad and 2 kids like by us. She gave them even our names-))) and that one which is with a bow - is of course our Karolina.

This 3D Christmas tree craft was done for Karolina's great grandfather which she decorated again with her favourite Minnie Mouse image. She also added some decorations in different geometric forms as we repeat them again. So this tree is already in the envelope somewhere on the way to her greatgrandfather.

And this snowman which was made from cotton discs and xmas tree was a present for her grandmom. It is together with 3D tree travelling to its final destination.

We also made some decoration from pipe cleaners and this craft was inspired by Martha Stewart. Now the hang on the lamp and some go to our Xmas tree.  

    

                                              
An angel appeared in our decor as well. It was her handprint angel activity where the face we tried to pain together, with supervision of mum of course.

One of the longest mini Christmas projects was to make a girlanda from Xmas associations of Karolina and her cousine.
And of the last but not the least crafts was again a Christmas tree but already done in another way:





So, this is a little summary of our productive work with my little girl and now we are going to decorate our Christmas tree. We wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!

Foil SNOWBALLS activity

Winter crafts do not stop...It brings so much fun and joy to Karolina. Especially she likes when we need to decorate sth, like it was with Xmas decorations for the flat. She wanted to hang all lights only in her room. Everytime she took out anything from the box, what she found more beautiful, she said immediately: "Mummy, let's hang it there as well...", adding "I will do it myself..."

Yeah, this year is really different, Karolina's understanding and expectations of Holidays make it more interesting for us as parents. I love New Year and Xmas but with Karolina I feel it even more.

Her dad promised her to make a snowman as soon as the snow will come...So, Karolina is waiting and meanwhile, like today for example, we played with her fake snowballs....which were made from the alu foil.

We made a shape of balls, and the main idea of snowballs games was the following:
1) to make them, which is good for motoric skills
2) to count them
3) to compare them by size
4) to throw them into each other, pretend play with snowballs
5) to throw them into a bowl or basket
6) to take them with chinese sticks and put in the bowl (which was quite difficult when she did it from the floor, thats why  a TIPP: let the child do it from the table, on the same high level) - for motoric skills

Time is for bed already. It is quite warm in the flat, but our snowballs will wait for us till tomorrow, to play again. 
Take care and don't get cold-)))

Painting afternoon- a doll with Karolina's height in 1m

One afternoon we made a playdate for our kids and the idea behind was to create a doll or a princess, or a ballerina with a height of a child. My karolina chose a doll.

So, we roll out a paper, and asked a child to lie down in order to be drawn around. 

After that we offered them to colour it and make some dresses or skirts, accessories, in one word - everything what they want their dolls to be dressed up with.

My Karolina was quite creative with a choice of colours for doll's skin-))) but anyway, it was very nice experience for girls.

After that they continued painting and this is the result of their activity:

After that playdate Karolina was sooooooooo exhausted that hardly could she go till her bed. So, dear mummies, i recommend you to do the same to have your time after that-)))

Face painting

I think I will start from the favourite things of Karolina which are in our photo archive - painting, especially on the face. She LOVES it! As soon as I bought her that palette of paints for the face, she asked me almost everyday to draw sth on her face. Of course i didn't make anything complicated for the beginning and it was simple patterns like flowers, butterflies, indiana pattern, etc.

Then Karolina was the main "visagist". She liked the idea of painting on dolls' faces or on parents' faces. The pictures with the models of the latter we will not post-)))

Later the painting was bigger and bigger...

So, and how often do you paint on the face of yr little one?