Well, I was feeling brave after my mom had 6 kids over to her house to make gingerbread houses. I was really wanting to do this with Haines and some of his friends from his Sunday school class. I wanted to keep the group small because I was not sure how it would go and plus our house is super small. Hudson Reed, Caroline Powell, and Caroline Draney came over. Margaret had a friend in town and her little boy came too, Warner. We had a great time and they did WONDERFUL!
The first thing we did was make either a handprint reindeer hand towel or a footprint Christmas tree hand towel. It was not bad because they involved minimal paint usage so the kids did not have too much exposure to allow for any messes. All of the towels turned out super cute!
Next we made candy cane cookies with red died cookie dough and also made sugar cookies with the cookie cutters. We had plenty of sprinkles so the kids went to town on decorating them. We don’t have many pictures because as you can imagine it was a busy action packed 1.5 hours. I did not even get a chance to get my camera out, thanks Mindy for the pics!
Our last activity was to make gingerbread houses and I assembled them all by myself that Friday night before. I was pretty impressed with how they turned out! They were soooooo cute after the kids decorated them. Each kid brought a bag or two of candy so we would have an assortment. I think Haines was more concerned with eating his than decorating it.
The first picture on this post was the best attempt at getting a group picture of all of them. Corralling a bunch of 2 1/2 to almost 3 year olds is a challenge in itself! We had so much fun we are going to try to make this an annual get together!
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