12 Practical Life Christmas Activities: On the 5th day…

Painting a Monet-inspired Christmas tree.

Remember how I raved about the books of James Mayhew (the Katie series)? We'll one of our favourite books is the Katie Meets the Impressionist [aff. link]. We talked about the style of Monet and why he is called an “impressionist” artist.

 

And since its Christmas, we use the Christmas tree as an inspiration.

Below, we work together all the time. His and hers.

We dabbed and smeared our drawing paper with green for the tree. He used a pencil to draw a triangle outline as guide which is not visible in the picture.  Then we added details for the balls, lights, stars and presents under the tree.

 

Here’s my tree.

 

Mavi’s tree.

Now here’s a macro look of our tree…

                        

12 Practical Life Christmas Activities: On the 4th day…

Allowing kids to help you set up your Nativity Set, and offer a little prayer afterwards :)

12 Practical Life Activities: On the 3rd day…

Create window decors just like these snowman window banners! They looked so cute hanging in the kitchen window :)

12 Practical Life Christmas Activities: On the 2nd day…

Writing Christmas cards to family and friends!

Mavi has to prepare at least 10 cards, so we’re doing 2 cards a day and he loves it!  He uses different coloured pens, and would add glitters and stickers too!

Have fun!

12 Practical Life Christmas Activities: On the 1st day..

Helping Mommy putting up the Christmas Tree. 

 

                         

Happy first day of December!