I got this idea from a craft book I took out from the library: Best Christmas Crafts Ever!
This was fun and pretty easy. We did cut the facial circles a bit big, which made our Santa look like a muppet, but he was cute anyway!
(Amanda is making a crazy face in this photo...she has started making weird faces when we bring the camera out, so it's often hard to get a nice picture of her with a normal smile on her face!)
Usually we really do make fancy hot chocolate for this activity, but this year we were running short on time and decided to pick up treats from Starbucks instead. Yum!
I had an appointment to go to, so my Mom took Amanda for the afternoon and they had a great time together doing lots of baking! They made gingerbread cookies, some no-cook chocolate balls, and a gingerbread house. The balls especially were very delicious!
I love this photo of their creations:
...yes, we've fallen so far behind again...the craziness of the holidays really got to us this year and we weren't able to keep up with posting regularly! It's such a bad cycle; I always want to wait until I can get caught up on things when I post, but then it takes so much time and meanwhile more things are happening and it gets impossible to catch up.
So I'm going to post a few highlights from the remainder of our "24 Days of Christmas", as well as some updates of what we've been up to, and then hopefully we can resume posting on a more regular schedule!
