Advent: art

As we are nearing the end, I'm finally experiencing some positive adjustments to my own Advent expectations. Just go with the flow Mama!

Some days we don't get to the activity named on the link. Most days we do. Some activities are a poor match for the day we selected it on (i.e. too cold for star-gazing). So we improvise. Somehow we even got a day ahead on our link removal. Now we've got to slow down! Next year, I'll stockpile some Christmas craft ideas and utilize those most frequently in our advent chain/calendar, whichever we do. We both love art projects, and they are a perfect reminder to slow down and calm yourself amongst the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

Yesterday, we drew:



Obviously, I handed Kenzie another magic wand of a glue stick, cut out some body pieces and she glued them down. She named the colors and the body parts for me to create:



She enjoyed the elf so much, that she proceeded on to naming the components of these creations. A snow man complete with a magic hat and bunnies jumping out:



Our house, complete with us and several neighbors playing outside:



Today, after drawing the following:



We decided to convert our previous art pieces into something further with some glitter glue and markers. LOTS of glitter glue.







We also made some crazy looking ornaments out of a kit I picked up at the dollar store. We're going to attach these to blank cards, mail with the artwork shown above...and send them along with our "thank you's" for all the gifts she's received.





Santa got a bit of a make-over. He's wearing blue this year...