Ten things to do with your kids this season… Day 2
December 8, 2006
Here’s two more things to do this winter break. Enjoy your holidays! (Whatever they may be).
Activity
Make wrapping paper!
You’ll need some poster paint, some inexpensive sponges, and some craft paper. We like the brown packaging kind of wrapping paper because it goes so well with raffia, but any kind will do. Take your sponges and cut them up into shapes. You can use a cookie cutter as a template, or draw a pattern out with a permanent marker. We usually have a Fir tree, a snowman and a stocking shape, but you can use your imagination. Here are a few examples, to get you started.
When you have your sponges cut out, dress your younger kids up in your old t-shirts or smocks. Lay out the paper and stamp it with the poster paint and the sponge. You can be as fussy as you want; or just let them go to town. If you “happen” to get some hands and feet on the paper too— grandparents will love it even more. Rip off the paper and let it dry flat before you roll it up to store it until you have something to wrap.
Event
Don’t go to Alpenrose Dairy; their Santa House and Storybook Lane is closed this year (sadly). But you can go to the Zoolights! Most of the animals will be sleeping, but a few will be stirring in their pens. You can wander around part of the zoo, and then when you’re ready, hop on the train ( if you buy the entrance and the zoo train raid together, you’ll save money. Here are the prices).
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- Author :russ
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