Today when we awoke we had 2 surprises waiting for us. The first was that our Elf Gus had made a little bit of mischief while we were sleeping by spilling a white powder across our hall table and making snow angels in it! The kids decided that he really must miss the snow at the North Pole.
He must have been very proud of himself because we found him perched in the Chrismas swag just above his masterpiece just waiting to see our reactions!
Our second surprise of the morning was finding that our Christmas trees had grown beautiful crystals on them while we were sleeping!
*Recipe for growing crystal trees: Mix 1 Tbs water, 1 Tbs bluing, 1 Tbs salt and 1/2 Tbs ammonia together in a jar with a tight fitting lid and shake until mixed. Pour the solution into a dish and set your little cardstock or thin cardboard Christmas tree inside (we found that thin cardboard works much better and holds up longer!) Then just wait for the magic to happen : )
After examining our little crystal Christmas trees we finally got down to the business of scratching off the days advent card.
Although we did not get around to cutting out snowflakes until long after Daddy had gone to work and Tiny was fast asleep, the 3 big kids and I enjoyed the time spent together. Addie had a hard time cutting through all of the layers of paper so I cut hers out for her and then she got to open them up and see what kind of a design had been made! The boys enjoyed trying to out-do one another with more and more elaborate designs. When we were finished I taped the snowflakes to our French doors to be enjoyed by all and kept safe from litte fingers : )
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