This is the craft, we made fragrance sachet covers for Great Grandma's Christmas gift, the secret - they are quick, easy to make. The older kids helped the younger ones - it was great fun making them and she loved all 6.
The supplies and instructions are as follows:
Supplies needed:
- one face cloth for each cover
- one packaged fragrance sachet for each cover
- glue gun and glue sticks
- small items for decoration (flowers, insects, animals, etc.)
Instructions:
fold a face cloth in half as shown
the orange stripes and dot indicate areas to be glued; place glue along bottom and approximately 1/2 way up the open side; place a dot of glue on the top right corner of the face cloth then bring that corner over to the left side about half way down. The glued areas should be pressed with your fingers to ensure the glue has penetrated the material allowing it to stick. The children must be made aware of the glue's temperature, if it is hot an adult should do this part to prevent them from getting burned.
Place the sachet in the cover and fold the top half down toward the bottom, now attach your cover decorations - see how easy! I added a card on each with the photo of the Great Grandchild who made the cover and on the other side is written "Made By The Hands Of An Angel"
Dessert for dinner was "Cookie Pizza" the kids had great fun making this - if you haven't tasted one you don't know what you are missing. Nancy came up with this idea and it was a winner.
I have great respect for the "Pillsbury Dough Boy" - We used his chocolate chip cookie dough, flattened it out on a round pizza pan then covered the dough with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, smarties, jelly beans, M & M's and mini marshmallows which are added last. You can go crazy with imagination on this one . The kids all took part in adding the toppings - and sampling of course. Follow cooking temp and time as you would if your cooking the dough in cookies - do not overcook; the only thing that needs to be cooked is the dough. The marshmallows melt and brown nicely while helping to hold the toppings in place.
It was served cold but the next time I will try serving it warm with ice cream.
Christmas celebrations continued with Santa arriving at the Christmas Tree downtown on Christmas Eve. The children were excited to see him arrive on the Fire Truck accompanied by 5 Firefighters. He passed out bags of candy to all then he was quickly whisked away. The children were then treated to hot chocolate as they stood round the tree eating their candy and telling each other of their dreams for Christmas morning. Santa was taken back to the open field beside the Fire Hall where he untethered the reindeer and hurried on his way.
Allan and I spent Christmas Day and Boxing Day with family and friends - by the end we were as stuffed as the Christmas turkey!
" 'T Was A Wonderful Christmas!"
