I've got a super simple Christmas idea for you today. You don't need to be able to cook. You don't need to be able to craft. You just need to be able to use a knife to slice an orange and turn your oven on low. Today, I'm going to tell you how to make dried citrus slices. Thinly slice oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, satsumas, tangerines or clementines (yep, any citrus fruit. I'm sure you get ...
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Day 18 Blogger Advent Calendar: Christmas Tree Numbers
I love thinking up learning opportunities at Christmas because it is so easy to get children interested just by making it about baubles and presents. There are so many learning activities which children don't even realise are teaching them something, from writing a list to Santa, to follow instructions to making mince pies. My twins are three and they are really interested in learning about ...
Day 17 Blogger Advent Calendar: Gift Tag Printables
Mammsaurus here, live and loose on Mummy Alarm, wreaking havoc and throwing great handfuls of festive cheer about the place like a mad woman. I hope you’ve been enjoying reading the Blogger Advent Calendar series as much as I have – now it’s my turn to be your festive prank monkey! I’ve ummed and ahhed about what to do but I’ve opted for something simple that’s also a really handy way of using up ...
Day 15 Blogger Advent Calendar: Christmas Bauble Craft
This Christmas, my little boy will have just turned three and is now beginning to grasp the concept of Santa…and presents! So, for the first time, we sat down together and I wrote out his wish-list in a letter to Santa with the promise that he has been, and will be, a good boy. This was just so sweet, and pretty funny, that it seemed a shame that it would be posted and never seen again. I ...
Day 10 Blogger Advent Calendar: Reindeer Crafts
Reindeer – Christmas wouldn’t be the same without them now would it? I mean there is just no way Father Christmas could fly all around the World in time to deliver the presents without them now is there? The reindeer names come from the poem The Night before Christmas – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and then Rudolph the red nose reindeer was added. If you can visit ...
Day 5 Blogger Advent Calendar: Hama bead Christmas cards
We love making things with Hama beads in our house, and I really like trying to come up with a Hama bead craft that is also useful. Christmas crafting is the perfect opportunity, because you can use Hama beads to make lovely Christmas decorations which can be enjoyed every year. These Hama bead Christmas decorations are presented on a card which the recipient can keep as it is, or remove the ...
