When the kids were little and I was trying to fill our days with fun things to keep them occupied, you remember those days before kindy, part time or full time work and school, one of my favourite things to do was get the kids making our yearly christmas cards to be posted off around the world.
I used to buy heaps of stickers and foam shapes, glitter glue pens and shiny pretty things to decorate with. I would put it in a big pile in the middle of the table and let them go nuts!!!! They used to love it and that kind of describes my parenting style. As a teacher I saw way too many kids who struggled to make their own creative choices and so I was determined that my little peeps were going to be organically creative and independent. Mind you I have not had a tidy house since!!! Still to this day there is always some kind of art or craft mess spread all over the place. Including mine!!!! LOL! My husband david is ever so patient with the whole thing.
So I have been cruising around pinterest! What a surprise! It is one of my favourite virtual places to be and I have found some great ideas to help you enlist the help of your little or big peeps in making your family christmas cards this year!!! Yes I am going to do it too this year. We have not done it for a few years and I think it is time we started it again!
I just love these fingerprint picture ideas. We will be doing these this year I think. You can use ink pads or paint on coloured cardstock or paper. I just love them!!!!
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