Friday, December 5, 2008

Advent crafts

In preparation of Christmas this year, I created an Advent tree with various activities planned for each day. So I hit Hobby Lobby last week for craft supplies, and discovered the greatness of foam. I love that stuff!

So the first four days were spent creating Christmas mobiles, made of these foam pieces. Day one was the base of the mobile, day two was the tree, day three was the ornaments, and day four was the gift box. The letters were pre-cut and pre-stickered, so that was super easy. The ornament balls on the tree were strips of foam run through my Xyron, and then hole-punched. The ornaments just have marker drawings on them. For the gifts, I ran wrapping paper scraps and ribbon through the Xyron, and stuck them to foam scraps. I think they turned out great!




Snowmen that we made last week:



Poor Quentin - he's too little to be involved in any of this, and I'm not making stuff for him. I will when we make dough ornaments, though.