Christmas "works"

Loading Santa's sleigh...tongs work

Christmas paint stamping...

Christmas stamping...

Play Doh Christmas tree...

Decorating the Christmas tree...

Storytime.....

This week we are telling the Christmas story.....

Just plain cute.....

Christmas Party....

Punch and Sweet Treats....

Present Time.....

Merry Christmas Tree House Gang.....Mama Sharon loves you all!

I found this cute chef's hat at the Dollar store on the weekend....it inspired a game of restaurant this morning.

Baking Day

Jaramie is home from college...she helped the Tree House Gang make sugar cookies today

Our cookies all ready for the oven...

They made a snow rhino...

Sliding down the big rock...

Peanut and Little Man wanted to do some addition today....

Iish was having fun making designs with the bingo dabbers.

A few sticks and twigs with great imagination equals fun.

Iish and Peanut are pretending to ski...

Little Man is pretending to use a flint to light his campfire....

We are usually pretty careful about what we eat at Tree House but every Friday afternoon we have instant pudding as a treat...the older children love to make it on their own now....Little Man is watching to let Peanut know when the milk is at the 2 cup mark

everyone colouring this morning

We made minestrone soup for our lunch today.....

Play Doh....

I put out lots of Christmas colouring and bingo dabber sheets this morning...

The Play Doh gang

Princess sorted all the pieces of the shape sorter puzzle by colour before she put them all back on the racks.

The children have had a great time today with this bench...first it was the entrance to a cave, then..

a big wave for a dolphin to leap over,

and a horse.

St. Nicholas Day!

New Play Doh Christmas tree work...

Monday is Baking Day

We made Christmas bread today...

Checking to see if St. Nicholas came while we were resting...

St. Nicholas dropped by on his way home from Europe...

We finished of the afternoon with fruit tea and our Christmas Bread.

Peek a Boo Tiger....

Little Man telling a puppet story to his friends.....

A little nook beneath the fir trees...

Doing the Christmas Tree decorating work together...

Princess working with the Christmas tree art tray...

Candlestick work....

Push pin Christmas tree....

Wednesday we sculpt.....

today we used plastercine, first we made M's then our first initials, then spirals.

Sharing a cup of tea with the baby....

King Winter is in the land .....

After two days of rain we are all glad to see the snow return. I am sure our parents are the happiest of all as for the past two days the children went home with a bag of muddy laundry.