Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 18- Snowflakes

For day 18 of our christmas calendar countdown we made a snowflakes out of popsicle stick craft!

As you can see the “craft sticks” here are actually Starbucks’ stir sticks. I grab a few when we had our bonding time.
I just love how long and delicate these stir sticks are; perfect for snowflakes! You could certainly use regular craft sticks to make these ornaments though.

These snowflakes are fun, easy, and so inexpensive to make. You could also coat them in glitter or whatever art supplies you have on hand. Buttons will be a neat addition too. You could hang them in your window, over a door instead of a wreath. And why stop with ornaments you can add it to your presents as embelishment.

Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 17 – Make wrapping paper

Have you been wrapping up presents?
Maybe your kids would like to help. They’ll love giving a present that they made look beautiful.

Today the Christmas activity is:
Make Wrapping Paper!

Instead of using store bought wrapping paper I encourage kuya A to made some using my nativity cookie cutter set and paint.

I love how simple this easy Christmas craft is, it let him explore with colors and create something fun to give to his friends.

Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 15- Christmas Card Making

Ever so simple, and ever so pretty: here’s how to make a Christmas card that can be gift for teachers or grandparents.

For Day 15 – it’s time for giving so we made a handmade Christmas card.

This version is very easy to make using simple craft supplies.

Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 14- Watch Ice Age Show

For the past 3 years we have been bringing Kuya A to the Sharjah Water Festival to see what’s new.

Every year kasi iba-iba ang pakulo nila. And this year one of the entertainment is the all time favorite of the children, Sid’s Ice Age Adventure Camp, a 25-minute interactive show where kids are encouraged to shout out responses, get involved in all the activities.

Children may also laugh at the performances of the roaming clowns and play on the Climbing Wall and Bungee Trampoline, and take part at the Skate Park, Bag Jump Show, Heritage Area, Roaming Musicians Shows.

Sharjah Water Festival will be open from December 11 – 21, 2013. Park timing is 4pm till 11pm.Entrance fee to the park is Dh10.

Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 13- A world of fun @ MBC show

As part of our countdown every year we always make a note in our diary to include MBC show.

For our Day 13 – We visited the world of fun at Mother, Baby and Child Show.

Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 10- Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

15 days before christmas and today’s activity is one of the most popular Christmas characters for children.

December 10 – we made a cute little reindeer craft.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer hat!

Materials needed:

Construction paper
Googly eyes
Brown tempera paint
Paintbrush
Glue
Stapler

We used little A’s handprints as Rudolph’s antlers and they turned out adorable.

We didn’t have brown paint so we mixed green and red paint that worked just fine! Lastly, add the googly eyes and draw a nose using red paint.

I think this is a fun christmas activities to do with your children.

Presenting…A happy little reindeer ready for Christmas!

Christmas Calendar Countdown: Day 7 – Little Gingerbread Man

Hello Darlings!

December 7th – this is a fun little activity to do over the weekend.

For the past whole week we’be been doing activities that is christmas related and I must say that as the day went on the little man is getting more excited!

Today the Christmas activity is:

Gingerbread Man Clay

But warning this is not a neat idea especially if your assistant is so thrilled! Expect for a challenging mess!

If your curious how to make homemade clay, it just like any other version. But the only difference is the pretty brown color and the rich enticing aroma.

The good thing about this gingerbread recipe is we wont be needing to turn on the oven.But the fragrance of the spices,your home will smell as if you are baking a real gingerbread cookies except for the taste!! hehe

And because the little man is a fan of Ben 10, he started to create one of Ben 10 monster.

Meet the funny face of Humungousaur..

Day 9 – Baked Snow Balls

I am down with flu and colds. Thank God i have the best nurses ever. Raquiza came along all the way to Dubai just to checked me and hubby brought Beef and Mushroom soup from Chowking with my favorite Siopao Asado of course.

Since I can’t do the activity with little A the ever dependable sister came to the rescue.

For day 9 of our 25 days of cheerful christmas we baked snow balls or simply known as coconut macaroons.

2011 Christmas Calendar Countdown – Day 13 – Day 25

A very merry month to all of us. Remember the festive season brings along with it the time to relax with family and a perfect opportunity to create your own tradition to double the dose of cheer and fun this year’s festive season..

As the second part of our 2011 Christmas Countdown.Here’s the second part of our 2011 Christmas Countdown Calendar.

13. Rudolp the Red Nose Reindeer – Hands and Foot Reindeer craft.

Gather your materials. Brown paper,red and black pen plus glue. Then, trace both hands and foot of your kiddo. Cut and paste lng..

the most tantalizing reindeer I’ve ever seen..

14. Decorating gingerman and gingerhouse using corrugated box and DIY color paint

What you need: condiments plastic bottles, glitters, gingerman and house cut- outs at isang batang mkulit!

Gingerhouse decorating

gingerman decorating

gingerman and his gingerhouse..

15. Double the fun party! Meet- up with playmates again

16. Bonding with Tita K and Tobit at Dubai Festival City

enjoying the huge christmas tree

17. Visiting Santa Claus

Santa..Santa..Ho!Ho!Ho!

18. Sharjah Water Festival

enjoying the ride alone..such a brave boy!

19. Decorating Christmas Mittens

he likes glitters so much..

20. Watching and Enjoying the Pet Show

bonding moment ng mag-ama

21. Build your own Snow Man using the free printable from disneyfunfamily.com

the supposed to be scarf was used as belt. clever boy!

22. Counting and Sorting – What’s inside: Candy cane, bells, balls and angel

Simplest way of learning math..

23. New pet because the little boy loves fish

Frank the Fish meet little A

24. Noche Buena – singing the Happy Birthday song to Papa Jesus

25. Opening of Christmas presents

because the little boy behaved well sandamakmak na regalo galing sa mommy and daddy plus tito’s and tita’s

2011 Christmas Calendar Countdown – Day 1- Day 12

Ahhh it’s finally here! Summer vacation is now over, hoping you had a great time with your loved ones. New season and amazing weather are just around the corner, now it is time to feel that Christmas is fast approaching.

I must say that we had a crazy and fun August month.When the BER months hits the calendar almost all of us are getting excited.I started thinking about September always seems to be a fresh start of months. . Last year we started our Christmas Calendar Countdown.But since I was in despair over the lack of ideas and time simply I downloaded the template from disneyfamily.com and customized it according to the stash I have with me.

It took me overnight to finished little A’s christmas tree countdown. I didn’t know that listing 25 activities to do before christmas would spend so much time. I scoured over the internet to check age appropriate arts and crafts and found some interesting ideas and tutorials. I had not anticipated the fun I would have while making christmas countdown calendar and I certainly didn’t anticipate that little A would be excited as the days went on. But the thing that made me most excited, was when I learned that this year we opted to continue the tradition and wanting to do it again and again and again.

Here’s our 25 list of activities for 2011 Christmas Countdown.

1. Hit the beach with friends

2. Playdate with friends

3. Treat to Fun City – our first ever carousel ride (di ko na uulitin..kakahilo!)

4. Swim..Swim..Swim at our homemad bubble bath

5. Qanat Al Qasba visit –

Last year seems our firsts for adventurous activities with little A – our first ferris wheel ride..

6. Ice cream treat

7. Movie date with his favorite mouse –

his all time christmas movie treat – watching Twice Upon a Christmas..

8. C is for Christmas (Christmas puzzle and Candy cane lacing)

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seeing his favorite dinosaur for the first time

10. Finger paintings – (Christmas tree and lights art activities) – Using his fingers we created the christmas lights.We used red,yellow, green and blue colors.Then he started to mixed the colors.Lastly using sharpie, we connected all the colors.

 

Using green tempera we did the hand painting christmas tree. I assisted little A to draw the stand.

little A’s small hands.

11. Santa Claus face using paper plate and cotton

trying to assemble santa’s face

our own version of Santa Claus – Ho!Ho!Ho!

12. Sensory bin (Christmas theme )

scooping and pouring with cotton,christmas ornaments,corn kernels and measuring spoon.