I have found a moment to sit down and put my feet up. The Christmas tree is twinkling, winter sunshine is streaming through the window and I have a cup of tea by my side. The house smells divine as I found a last miniature candle in my cupboard which I’d been saving and forgotten about. It’s my absolute favourite Yankee Candle “Christmas Cookie”. My large ones burnt down so soon I’m going to have to fork out for a new replacement one.
So we’ve been doing all sorts of Christmas crafting the last few weeks. The house has looked like a bomb has gone off, a glitter bomb to be precise! We are finding shiny sparkly bits on most surfaces, in most of our food, and it has spread into almost every room!
There are a few crafting bits that are for other people, so we won’t mention those here yet. We can mention a few though…
Salt Dough – We tried to make salt dough when I was with my sister last year but they didn’t work. I think we blamed her oven at the time, but the microwave recipe was a disaster too. I think this put me off having another go, but as an impromptu activity with my boy, I thought I’d try again. I used this recipe this time (1 cup of flour, 1 cup of salt, 1/2 cup of water – baked at 100oC for 2 hours or so). My little man loved emptying the cups into the bowl, and armed with wooden spoons we mixed and mixed until we could get our hands in to squidge it altogether. A fantastic sensory experience for little ones – although he pulled the funniest face when he tried to eat some!
We had a little problem with the dough…when rolled out and cut when I attempted to lift onto the tray they all broke, so we had to do them thicker. Maybe next time I’ll cut them out onto greaseproof so that they are easier to remove. We cut out a lot of shapes…
They had to have quite a while in the oven to dry out as they were so thick. I think thinner ones would look nicer.
Another day we spent painting some of them. Someone likes to mix the colours to make a browney/green gloop…I won’t tell you who that is!
I then decorated a few further…
They really need to be varnished to seal them properly…but I think I will scrap these ones and make some new ones next year. I started to lose patience with them as I wasn’t really in the mood for painting them. I have hung a few in the tree…
Snowman – I felt we needed a few more home made items to brighten up our Christmas displays. So we made our Snowman! There was a lot of glueing and fluffing…but slowly our Snowman came to life! I love this one…it was fun to make.
Craft Room – I forgot to blog about my lovely home made birthday present made by my friend. She has made me a lovely sign for my craft room. She felted it by hand and I think it it is one of the best presents I’ve had!
How cool is that eh!!!?!!!
I’ve got a little sneak peek for you too… This fellow has been used in something I am soon to reveal!
Hope you are all getting festive!!!!
Love from me and my little man x
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