Winter fun

Lots of fun here at our house lately! Monday we went ice skating. It was the little ones first time on skates. They did great! There were a few falls (including one for me) but no tears or anything life threatening! LOL!

A couple days later we made marshmallow snowmen. We melted white chocolate, then put 3 jet-puffed marshmallows on wooden skewers and dipped them in the chocolate. After the chocolate cools and hardens we used gel frosting to put on faces. That then became our afternoon snack.

Today we made snowscenes. We cut out circles from cardboard, and then mixed up Ivory Snow with some water and pour it on our cardboard by spoonfuls. We then pressed pinecones, acorns, small pine branches, and driftwood sticks and shells into the wet soap mixture. After they were arranged to satisfaction we made little tiny beeswax birds to mount on our stick. Now they are drying on my dining room table. After craft time the children all bundled up and went outside to sled on our big snowmound. I didnt take pictures of that though as I stayed inside and cleaned up the living room.:-)Until another time!!