Kids crafty post.

Since I just started this I will go back to the beginning of December and post what we have done so far! One little hint when working with little kids is to take and put a tiny little X where you want them to put glue and put the object. If I do that and Abby still ends up with an upside down object it doesn't bother me as much so long as it is in the general vicinity of where it should be!
This is just a paperplate with the center cut out. I traced Abbys hands before and cut them all out for her. Then I put them in a little craft bowl and give her a glue stick and let her go to town gluing them on. I told her she just had to try to make sure that we see no white. When that was done we did a dot of regular glue and she put the pom poms on. And lastly she added a little more glue for the ribbon.For this one I traced Abby's foot for the face of the reindeer (her heel is where the nose is!). Then her hands for the antlers. Gave her a glue stick and let her glue on the antlers and the eyes. Then we used real glue for the nose!
In our house Grandma is Jewish so we try to teach Abby a little bit about other holidays too! I cut out all of the little pieces prior to her doing it and put little X's in where the candles should go and she did the rest with her glue stick!
What Christmas would not be complete without doing a cotton ball Santa? So I had her color a paper plate and I actually let her pick the crayon and told her to match it to her skin. I cut out the nose, mouth, and hat. I had her glue on the hat first. Then made the little x's for the glue for her eyes, nose, and mouth. After that I let her use regular glue for the cotton and told her to just squish it around for Santas beard. For the cotton on the hat I put x's and had her use her regular glue and squish it around.

For this one I took a toilet paper tube and wrapped it in white paper the day before. Then I cut out a head and a set of Abby's hands. First she used glitter glue to decorate the hands. Then while they were drying we did the rest of the angel. She used regular glue for the yarn hair. Glue stick for the eyes and the sparkle mouth. She used glue stick for her gems on the angel. Then regular glue for the pipe cleaner halo and hands. This one had to dry over night because it used a lot of regular glue.
AND lastly we did a Christmas tree using foam stickers!

First I had her glue the tree down. Then I wrote the directions out, and while I would love to say she can read them she is 2 and that is not going to happen. So I gave her the bag of her foam stickers and read the directions to her. So she had to find the right shape, color, and count them out. She then stuck them on and we hung it up!
Next time the post won't have as many pictures and crafts, I will try to stick to one at a time! :o)