crafty kids

It always surprises me that some of my children are so crafty when I am craft impaired. On Wednesday they not only made Christmas decorations by hand and computer art but also made a Mexican flower craft with our Spanish and did a few parts for their Christmas Symbols Lapbooks.

Here are a few of the Mexican Flowers. They made quite a lot of these. Hayley's came out best but I didn't get a photo. the boys did great too though! Tristan stuck a bow in the middle of his since he was going to give it as a gift.


We started the Christmas symbols lapbook. We made and added the Christmas tree and also the draw a tree activity. We learned the history or legends of Christmas trees, lights, glass ball decorations, tinsel, adding food to decorate trees and a few others.



I don't know how well this will show up below but Colin wayyyyy over did the glue and his took hours to dry!


All ready for next time. (below)
I got some of the lapbook components ready ahead of time. It's a lot more low stress that way. The kids do the decorating and writing yet don't have to look for the right parts or do the cutting or have me say where is that raffia (or other needed yet unusual item),then spend an hour looking or having to change to a different lapbook part.