52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 23

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 23 – Ever heard of the French nursery rhyme called “Ah les Crocodiles“?  Me neither, but they sing it at my daughter’s daycare.  When they get to the chorus, all 15 kids start bouncing around the room like a toddler mosh pit.  Some day I’ll have to get a video of it. Anyways, crocodiles are popular around here, so I made a quick one out of the last of the card stock we had.

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 22

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 22 – Saw some paper lanterns on the interweeb and couldn’t resist.  They are super simple to make but look great (and I had a ton of scraps left over from the Princess Hat).  Hung them up in the window with some string to add even more decor to our small apartment.

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 18

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 18 – Can’t decide if this is a cool picture or just a bad idea, let’s go with cool.  Today we made a bird and a pegasus.  Do pegasus have a unicorn? No probably not, but my 2 year old doesn’t know the difference.  She did some colouring on both and then we hung them from the kitchen light.

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 15

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

 

Day 15 – Every once in a while someone gives my daughter a little candy in a wrapper.  She doesn’t seem to understand there is a candy inside, but loves carrying it around.  She loves it so much that she often asks for “little treats” which means we have to take some tin foil and paper and make a fake candy for her to put in her pocket.  The two I made today for her are more like Christmas Crackers, but I’m sure she’ll enjoy them just the same.  They won’t fit in any pockets though…

 

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 14

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 14 – Let me start by saying that as a kid, I royally sucked at bubble letters, my big brother on the other hand was awesome at it.  It was likely this way because I tried it once and sucked and gave up on it, whereas my brother probably practiced a bit, or maybe he was born awesome, who knows.  All this to say my bubble letters haven’t gotten much better, but I digress….  My daughter loves colouring books, but having the motor skills of a two year old means she can colour a page in about 10 seconds with some excellent scribbles.  Because of this she goes through colouring books like crazy.  Today I made her a quick little holiday themed colouring book.  It has 12 pages with 11 different pictures to colour.  Now to go and find a free stapler to stick it all together….

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 13

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 13 – Today I decided we need a wreath for our door.  If I were to buy one from the store in Paris it would probably cost a small fortune, so I made this paper version.  I’d like to say my daughter helped me, but in actual fact it was all me, can’t always be an artistic genius I guess.  I’m sure she’ll love it, but it does look a bit like a 2 year old made it…

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 12

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 12 – I’ve been saving toilet paper rolls for a while now, had a few craft ideas for them but have never got around to using them.  Had an idea this morning for a little santa claus, and here it is!  It’s pretty sturdy, but the hat is only held on with some tape so I don’t think it’ll last too long with my little turkey.  The trees are back from Day 2

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 11

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

 

Day 11 – While a lot of these advent crafts have been Christmas related, that was never a requirement, so today I made my daughter some Origami stars.  They are quite small (bout 3cm tall) which always seems to be more fun for little kids.  They are also quite sturdy so will likely last through playtime a bit longer than some of the other crafts.

 

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 10

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 10 – Grandma sent a Christmas tree wall decal, so today we made some paper presents to stick underneath the tree.  I cut them out and then we both coloured and stickered them.  Pretty quick little craft but we both had a great time doing it.

 

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52 Create – Craftvent Calendar, Day 7

52 Create, my weekly creative output for 2011.  Continuing along with my “Craftvent” calendar for my 2 year old daughter.  Simply put, it’s an advent calendar filled with crafts, all home made, many will be joint projects so she gets some fun of making stuff as well.

Day 7 – Today I made an origami swan.  Pretty simple craft that I made while she watched me intently.  With each fold she got more and more excited on what I was making.  I didn’t have any origami paper so I just used some plain paper we had lying around.

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