december projects

The Thanksgiving Box.

Revamped for Christmas. 

I love it. 

The kids and I got started on a special project that will last until Christmas.  I didn't find it on Pinterest.  I was flying by the seat of my pants on this one.   

My thought was to paint a giant Christmas tree with 25 blank ornaments that we could decorate throughout the month of December.  Kind of a progressive, Advent calendar type Christmas tree.  I knew the kids would think it was cool if I presented them with an already painted, ready to decorate tree, but decided they'd like it even more if they made it themselves.  

So I brought out the giant canvas and explained my plan.  Carter was immediately overwhelmed and decided he'd stick to painting the ornaments and let Grace and I handle the tree.  So we did.  

The tree isn't exactly what I had in mind, but I like the way it turned out.  Grace is absolutely fearless when it comes to creative projects, so I let her run with it and only jumped in  when absolutely necessary. 

I think it will be fun to paint one ornament each day of December, or more likely, a few ornaments every few days.  The kids have already painted their first ornaments and have big plans for their next ornaments.  I have a feeling that the ornaments will get more elaborate as we go along. 

Finally, my early blooming, but amazing, Amaryllises.