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The holidays can be boring to most children, especially when they are not doing anything unusual. The usual diversions such as the television, the video games, and the board games are getting tiresome. Moreover, studies have found out that too much tv watching can lead to early obesity for children.
But because you’re saving on gas, you do not want to take your kids to the mall and do nothing but walk around. They’ll just get hungry and badger you to buy some snacks and junk food for them. So you’ll tow your kids to the kitchen and let them help you bake cookies and cupcakes that you are planning to give as holiday gifts. Let them decorate with different color of icing, candy bits, candied flowers, chocolate nips, and marshmallows.
When given a free hand on decorating, children are quite artistic. Those little hands and imaginative young minds can turn simple cookies and cupcakes into mini-gardens, flower arrangements, funny faces, geometric arts, and abstract paintings.
So, why not let them be in-charged with the gift packing, too? See what they can do with your glass jars, paper plates, and ribbons, too. The idea is to decorate the gift containers. You’ll have to supervise your little artists because some of the projects require using a pair of scissors. Children have a short attention span so they need to be reminded on tasks to be done from time to time.
Materials needed:
Steps for the Jar Project:
1. Let the children draw their pattern on a draft paper. You do the cutting of the colored paper using these patterns. Give each one a glass jar for them to glue on their different shapes.
2. Cut the ribbons in different lengths. Show them how to tie a ribbon around the jar’s neck.
Steps for the Mini-Box Project:
1. Create mini-boxes using the paper plate to protect the designs on the cupcakes.
2. Secure the corners with the stapler. Give the mini-boxes to the children so that they can stick the scraps of colored paper on the outside.
3. Cut the cellophane into squares or sizes appropriate to cover the top of the mini-box.
4. Seal with strips of adhesive tape on all sides after you place a cupcake inside.
Let the children fill their jars with cookies. Ask them to write the recipient’s name on a scrap of paper and glue it on the jar cover. Let them do the same with the mini-boxes.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stay at the Ice Hotel? Most of you may have heard about this wonderful bit of architecture, but for those of you who have not, let me explain. The Ice Hotel is located in the north of Sweden in the Arctic Circle. Every year, a new hotel is constructed out of the surrounding ice and then melts away in the spring. (more…)
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