Parachuting

Since we’ve just had a lot of rain, Master D got out his little umbrella and was ‘parachuting’ off the dining table. Mmmm I know, what was his mother thinking?! But he was having a great time 🙂 After a couple of jumps I thought I’d better direct the play to something else 🙂

So I got two of his hankies and made him a little parachute man. First I made the head with a bit of filling and tying it off.

 Then I tied up some arms and legs.

Before tying on the parachute.

To launch the parachute man however, Master D assured me that doing so from the top of the table was best! Sadly *ahem* I wasn’t able to get good photo evidence 😉

Warm wishes, Kelly

December 3, 2011 by

An Advent Calendar

This year we have a new family tradition – a homemade advent calendar. In past years we have done the store bought chocolate advent, and last year Master D was over it in about 4 days (and did I mention, it was chocolate?!).

For our new advent calendar I found some cute lil envelopes and stenciled on the numbers.

Next we drew pictures incorporating the numbers (or tried to anyway!). We were inspired to try this by some of the beautiful Waldorf alphabets we have seen.

Husband of mine drew some lovely pictures, but sort of forgot about the whole – Christmas themed thing??? Well they look lovely anyway!

In each envelope there is a slip of paper, mostly cut from Christmas cards from last year, with an activity.

We’ve included things like writing to Santa, Christmas crafts & baking, making our gingerbread house and many others.

To put it all together I strung up some wool in the shape of a Christmas tree and pegged the envelopes on.

We are so looking forward to our Christmas countdown!

Warm wishes, Kelly

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