My friend Amy gave me the idea to do a storybook countdown and because my little man loves to be artsy I though it would be fun to do a story and a craft. I found 12 'Christmas' or 'winter' type books and came up with cute crafts to go with each book.
We have NOT started our countdown yet so our crafts are not actually done but I wanted to post this to give others ideas in case they wanted to do something similar.
so here we go!
12 days till x-mas:
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| Book: White Snow Bright Snow Craft: Shaving cream art |
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| Book: Clifford's First Christmas Craft: stocking with scrap pieces of paper or fabric |
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| Book: Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear Craft: decorate tree with home made puffy paint: equal parts salt, flour and water and a few squirts of food coloring or tempera paint. Put in ziplock bag (close tight) and mix by squishing bag. cut tip of bag and squirt. |
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| Book: Clifford's Christmas Craft: pull apart and glue cotton balls |
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| Book: Penguin's Big Surprise Craft: glue and color penguin |
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| Book: There was an old lady who swallowed some snow! Craft: Glue and color snowman |
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Book: There was an old lady who swallowed a bell Craft: paint child's hands brown, make handprints at the top of the reindeer head as antlers, glue on googly eyes and a red pom pom ball at the bottom.....makes a super cute Rudolph! (similar to the one shown here.....) |
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Book: The Penguin ho wanted to be different Craft: Foot print penguin!!  |
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| Book: A Charlie Brown Christmas Craft: decorate ice skate, tin foil and string for laces. and of course watch the movie!!! |
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| Book: The Snowy Day Craft: Homemade snow dough: Mix the 1 cup cornflour and 1/2 cup water together in a bowl. Heat 2 cups salt and 2/3 cup of water in a saucepan. As it begins to boil mix in the cornflour and water mix. Continue to cook over a low heat, stirring continuously (for awhile.) The mixture will eventually form a dough. It will be sticky at first, let cool and knead. (optional:add glitter for a fun effect) |
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Book: Olivia helps with Christmas Craft: decorate gingerbread man craft and  Trader Joes Really BIG Gingerbread man kit! |
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| Book: The Night Before Christmas Craft: make cookies to put out for SANTA!!! |
Happy Holiday's
Let me know if you are doing anything similar, I would love to hear your ideas too!!!!!!
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