Preparing for Christmas : Snowman

We started our 3-series Christmas preparation. The first was an gentle introduction to snowman!!! It was more cultural than religious and I thought there was no harm to doing that.
For a change, Daddy got the materials. It was to be a Family Time.

Then we collected hard cardboard together that Saturday morning from a nearby grocery store, using a piece of the hard cardboard as backing

I looked at the stickers available and developed a picture to show where the stickers should go. I also pre-cut two snow-capped mountains, complete with snow on the top of the mountains. Then I used cellophane paper to wrap the cardboard and glued the snow-capped mountain together to create a scenic backdrop. Cellophane is good for use as stickers can be peeled off easily and does not stick stubbornly compared to paper. So it is child-friendly and they can put it anywhere and peel off easily.

The instruction was for Theo to look at the pre-drawn picture I did and identify where each of the objects should go.

We let Theo pick out what he like to stick and then assign the rest of the roles to ourselves. I think we played for about 30mins and Theo had fun peeling the stickers of Christmas trees and sticking the pressies and stars. Then he reminded me to put up the lights which he thought looked like Strawberries! He told me, "there are 2 , we forgot to put it on, there are 2" And pointed at the picture and laughed. Here's the completed picture which now hangs in our living room.
















Part II

We did a snowman craft which was really just peeling the stickers and pasting them onto the snowman, pretty much the same skillset as the snow-capped picture but this is more funtional. It hangs nicely on the doorknob! Theo did everything by himself. I love his polka-dot scarf and how cool his snowman wears it. :)




















Part III - Nativity scene (Jesus was born in the manger)

This is the real stuff Christmas is made of. We read the Bible on the birth of Jesus and proceeded to construct the birth place of Jesus. This was really easy to build, like a 3D puzzle, so it was fun! The only thing was that it needed the help of an adult because of the glue that was needed to hold the pieces in place. Theo had fun putting "Joseph", "Mary" and "Baby Jesus" in the manger.