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Kids on the Go! – Crossroad Village & Huckleberry Railroad, Flint, MI
It’s a bit late to catch this wonderful holiday time activity, but I wanted to share how much fun we (PlayDrMom) had at Christmas at Crossroads this year. Christmas at Crossroads is the holiday celebration at Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad, part of the Genesee County Parks in Flint, Michigan. Crossroads Village is “an authentic Great Lakes from the turn of last century with more than 34 historic structures and a thriving community to welcome you.” Different fun family activities are offered throughout the … Read entire article »
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Egg carton Christmas tree ornament
I was clearing the recycling stuff I have kept for crafting the other day and I had a bunch of egg cartons, I thought ok, I’ll get rid of them, we won’t make anything with them, but I felt sad to throw them out and decided to think for a few days until the recycling truck passed, if I had not found an idea they would have gone out, but I did find an idea! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home
Year round Christmas goodness (50+ recipes from around the world)
‘Tis the season to be…hungry? Yes, what would Christmas without home-baked cookies? Still Christmas, yes, but just less tasty! So we rallied up some of our favourite blogs and have collected 50+ of the yummiest Christmas cookie recipes around! To help you browse through the calories cookies, we did not only put them alphabetically, but a click on the photo will bring you directly to the respective blog post! In this Christmas season, where we take time … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home
Christmas Crescent Cookies
A few years ago we saw a recipe on the Pillsbury website for a really simple cookie recipe made out of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls. We made them for the first time at Nico’s first Christmas, but we wanted him to help us with them and so far he had not been old enough to do so. Now of course can’t find the recipe anywhere anymore, so we figured to go by memory and other than … Read entire article »
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Snowman pancakes
(Nov 27, 2012) Asked Nico what he felt like for dinner, he said pancakes! Couldn’t come up with another idea so we made some. It was snowing lightly so I thought why not snowman pancakes! Nico loves shape pancakes, so I did our pancake recipe and just free handed the pouring. I did two models, full snowman and just the head. I sprinkled powered sugar and used chocolate chips (you could use raisins) for the … Read entire article »
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Christmas sensory bin (small things)
(Nov 27, 2012) I knew I wanted to make him a Christmas sensory bin, maybe two, we’ll see So for this one we put together small Christmas themed things over white rice and silver glitter. Here is what we put in there: Small bells (so small the rice won’t get in), small ornaments, small silver balls, small jewel stars, red berries on a branch, blue clear plastic snowflakes, Christmas pompoms, glittery foam shapes (santas, trees, … Read entire article »
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Christmas Around the World – Germany
Germany is a country in the centre of Europe and the most populated of the continent. It has a rich history going back centuries, starting with different states and peoples that in the end would be united as Germany. Its history is as rich as it has been tumultuous with two World Wars, a split into West and communist East Germany and finally the reunion in 1990. It is composed of 16 states and while … Read entire article »
German metal foil star Christmas ornaments
Today we have a very special post for you – a guest post by my mom from Germany, Marina. She used to make a lot of Christmas ornaments herself and today she is sharing how to do some Metal foil star ornaments! To start, here is what you will need: ruler protractor pencil scissors aluminum/metal foil in different colours, gold, silver, red with gold, blue with gold, green with gold (as in one side gold, the other side the other colour). … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home
Christmas Around the World – Quebec
Our family photo from last year, we “hijacked” Santa’s place at the mall Quebec is the largest province of Canada by area and second most populated. It also is the only fully Francophone province and with that has a lot of its own traditions that differ from the rest of the country. The two main cities are Montreal and Quebec City, both on the banks of the St-Lawrence River, whose history goes back hundreds … Read entire article »
DIY cone advent calendar
Last year, pre-blog era (explains lack of pics), we needed a specific calendar size for Nico since we were putting letters we made in them, so we made it. Since you need to do this 24 times I didn’t want it to be hard or long to do, had to be doable in an hour max with the two of us (Alex and I). So I got the different rolls of Christmas paper we accumulated … Read entire article »
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