Christmas Cheer

Every store, radio station and channel you turn to seems to be buzzing with Christmas cheer.  I'm not quite there yet.  I am starting to make some Christmas plans for my family, but am holding off on going into Christmas mode until after my birthday and Thanksgiving.  We've RSVP'd to breakfast with Santa and his reindeer, started our Christmas shopping and are already mapping out our holiday plans, but it still looks like Fall at my house.  We're establishing family traditions of our own and always the holidays with plenty of special things in the works.

I have seen lots of clever new Christmas ideas this year 

and I thought I'd share some cute options with you today.

My mom used to make these cinnamon ornaments for our tree 

and I'd love to give it a try with Olive this year.  They smell SO good!!

via thriftystories

Find some fun ORNAMENTS that Olive and I can make together.

I think I could hot glue this tree together and then she could color it and glue on the ornaments.

via happyhooligans

 

Practice our COLORS with Christmas themed activities.

via  mydeliciousambiguity

Make some DIY SNOW PAINT out of koolaid.  I think I'd put it in bowls for Olive 

instead of squirt bottles, but it looks like so much fun.

via thesitsgirls

Make some type of felt Christmas tree for Olive to DECORATE

via cheriebobbins

 I'd love to do some HAND PRINT art

via mimosdeinfancia

I'm also gathering our Christmas BOOKS and adding a few new ones to our collection.

I got the book Song of the Stars: A Christmas Story by Sally Lloyd-Jones to review for Christmas.  It's a board book with lovely illustrations to go along with the Christmas story.  The animals spread th word and share the real Christmas story.  The pages have the perfect amount of wording for a board book and tons of animals for your child to point out on each page.  You can tell that everyone is excited to meet God's great gift.

*I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review of it.