Well, today was one of those days =) We had just gotten in at midnight, and Serenity woke up sick at her stomach in the middle of the night. Needless to say, I didn’t manage to fill the advent calendar before we got up. On the plus side, Serenity was feeling much better by morning, and ran right to it saying, “We need to check my advent calendar!!!!!” So I used the, “look, there’s a monkey!” tactic while sneakily slipping an activity into the calendar. The activity was Craft! I have a looong list of ideas for crafts that I’d love to do this season. We’ll see how far we get, but today we did a handprint reindeer. I saw the idea here at Oopsey Daisy.
It turned out super cute, but I do have a few notes to add on the process. First, she says to angle the hands more than she did, and so I angled the paper sharply because trying to position a toddler’s hand is easier said than done. Second, I noticed that it’s important to put the heel of the foot slightly under the top of the handprints, so that it looks like the antlers are on top of the head. Otherwise it ends up looking a little bit like Krusty the Clown, a very scary prospect. Serenity was delighted with her Rudolphs! She did insist that the reindeers be red, which is why our handprints are red instead of green like the example. Everything must match in Serenity’s world!
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