Category Archives: Christmas
Merry Christmas
Wishing you a gentle Christmas
To all my readers, Thank you for following my blog over the last year. I hope that your Christmas will be as nice a one as it can be. Lots of love to those of you I know who will find Christmas this year to be a difficult one – wishing you a peaceful festive… Read More
Christmas crafts: Nativity crafts for kids
We love doing crafts in the run-up to Christmas. Over the years we’ve made a few different nativity-themed crafts, ranging from simple preschool crafts, such as the ‘Baby Jesus in the manger’ craft through to more involved craft projects, like our shoebox nativity scene. They’ve all been a lot of fun to make and some… Read More
Our Christmas traditions – creating a book advent calendar
One of our Christmas traditions is to have a book advent calendar. Each evening in December, in the run-up to Christmas, the children get to unwrap that day’s Christmassy book, which we then read together. It’s a lovely way of making sure we take time to relax and snuggle up together with a story each… Read More
Merry Christmas
I’ll be stepping away from the blog from now until the end of December. Wishing all my readers a peaceful and gentle Christmas. Hope that you all stay safe and well over the festive period and are able to find moments of joy in amongst what is going to be a very difficult Christmas for… Read More
Crafting with kids: Tissue paper ‘stained-glass’ Nativity scene
Small squares of tissue paper stuck on to sticky-back plastic is a great way of creating ‘stained-glass’ decorations to go on windows. We still have the Christmas tree and star that the girls made a few years ago which come out each year to decorate our living room windows. Now that Sophie’s older, I thought… Read More