I have to admit that I love Christmas. From when I was a child I enjoyed the beautiful stories about snow, presents and festivity. When you have your own children (or work with them) you get the chance to live through the most beautiful time of the year being enchanted by the children’s enthusiasm and interest.
I am currently trying to spread the Christmas Spirit with the 2 year-old I am currently working with. This afternoon we will do some Baking and maybe also some crafting. Unfortunately all my run around the pound shops earlier was in vain – none of them seemed to stock christmas crafting sets. So normal paper will have to do the job. After all she’s only 2 anyways.
I came across a few pages with some interesting crafting ideas (incl.paper snow flakes), some of them are unfortunately in German but I’ll post everything anyways.
Christmas Cookie Recipes (Basic Dough and Variations)
Snow Picture – why not use some cotton wool to make a snow picture? Take some dark blue or grey construcation paper and maybe paint something on it like a street or some trees and the let the little one stick some cotton wool like little snow flakes on the picture. Add as many things as you like. Maybe you can also craft some clouds and stick them to the top of the contruction paper.
I know these stories are quite long but I tend to read to the little one anyways (mostly while she’s playing) and after the 2nd or 3rd story she will often come over to me and look at the book or webpage I am reading from, (even though there isn’t much to see) and will linger around and listen. Afterwards I usually try to do a quick recap so that she knows what I was brabbling about for the last 10 minutes 
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German Links:
Weihnachtskarten – Christmas Cards ideas
Faltsterne – Paper Stars (similar idea to snow flakes)
If you know anymore pages you think are worth sharing, let me know.
