Upcycled Nativity {Virtual Fridge}

This Week

It's that time of the year again where little people get excited and we look for things to point them to Jesus. This Upcycled Nativity scene is super easy to make and all you need is some crayons, paper and toilet rolls.  It was so much fun to make. 

Featured This Week

This weeks feature is from over at Homeschool Coffee Break and features Retablo Art. Pop on over and see how to make this beautiful form of Peruvian art.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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Blessings
Chareen

The Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to co-host this weekly meme.

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Creating Christmas Traditions

Here is a sneak peak of my guest post over at the Crew Blog.  I'm sharing on Creating Christmas Traditions.A tradition is something that can change over time or be created with a sense of purpose. Special moments need to be created they do not occur by accident or without planning.  

Psalm 77: 11—12 I will remember the deeds of the Lord, I will remember your miracles of long ago.  I will meditate on all your works, and consider all your mighty deeds. I am sharing some ideas to remember the miracles and mighty deeds of the Lord at Christmas with our families.

• Nativity Trek.
• Setting up the tree
• Advent
• Jesse Tree
• Up-cycled Nativity

Blessings

Creating Christmas Traditions {Schoolhouse Review Crew}

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Blessings
Chareen

2012 Melbourne Town Hall Christmas Projections

We normally never go anywhere on Christmas day other than to whom ever is hosting Christmas.  This year however we went into Melbourne to see Christmas Fantastic at Crown and the laser light show at the Melbourne Town Hall. This was our third trip in to see the lights as we missed them the first two times we went in.  We had to go in on Christmas day because that was the last day for the show. Sir N thoroughly enjoyed it.

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We watched it twice and took some video.  We have watched it a few times now and each time we watch it we see something different. This is the official Melbourne Town Council Video of the show.


We took a video with some close up footage of the detail that was put into the show.  Each time we watch it we find something new.

I do hope they make this an annual tradition as it was so spectacular and special. Did you do anything new or unique this Christmas ?

Blessings

12 Days of Christmas at Crown

We had a wonderful day yesterday with family who came over to help us celebrate the birth of our Saviour.

Last night we decided to go into Melbourne and enjoy two of the Christmas shows together with Sir N.  We went to Crown Casino where they are currently running Christmas Fantastic {The Twelve Days of Christmas}.  It runs every 15 min and is free to the public. You can watch a 3 min YouTube clip on the making of Christmas Fantastic.

The Twelve days of Christmas begin on Christmas day and end on Twelfth Night — January 5th, the night before Epiphany.

12 Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas
My true love-......... God
gave to me-......... any person in Christ

A Partridge in a pear tree ....... Jesus on a cross

2 Turtle Doves .......... Old and New Testament

3 French hens ......... faith, hope and charity

4 Calling birds ........ the 4 gospels

5 Golden Rings ......... the first 5 books of the old Testament

6 geese a laying .......... 6 days of Creation

7 Swans a Swimming .......... 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit

8 maids a milking ......... 8 beatitudes

9 Ladies Dancing ......... 9 fruits of the Hold Spirit

10 Lords a leaping ........ 10 Commandments

11 Pipers Piping ......... 11 Faithful Disciples

12 Drummers Drumming ......... 12 Points of belief in the Apostles Creed.

Blessings

Twelve Days of Homeschool

A friend recently shared this with me and I really enjoyed it.  Be encouraged and make sure you watch it all the way to the end.



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Upcycled Nativity

Thanks to Pinterest I discovered this wonderful up-cycled activity which was first showcased on Catholic Icing in December 2009.

It's a printable DIY Nativity for Kids. One word of caution this is not an hour long activity, it took us six hours to colour and glue onto the toilet rolls on Wednesday. In future I will definitely plan to do this over a few weeks rather than one day as Sir N found it a lot of colouring in. Needless to say Mom had the pleasure of colouring in most of the pieces and together we enjoyed constructing the set.

We printed the pages and coloured in.

It took us over 3 hours to colour in the pieces

Our pieces ready to be applied to toilet rolls.

Glitter Glue
I really wanted to use the glitter that's been sitting in the cupboard but did not want glitter everywhere. I decided to make our own version of glitter glue.

• I used a water based PVA glue.
• Add a generous amount of glitter in a container. This is the holder for roll on deodrant from the local store. When ever I do my shopping if I see empty ones on the shelf I bring them home for glue / painting projects.
• Next I added around 3 ml of glue to each one and mixed. I then used a paintbrush and added two drops of water to each. Do NOT make it runny. If it's runny then it spreads too thin and you don't get a solid glitter look.
• Use a paint brush and apply glitter mix where you want it to be.

Our Nativity Up Close

This in turn has inspired Sir N to design his own take of the nativity using toilet rolls.

Elsewhere on the www

• One of my blog friends son has also made an up-cycled Nativity pop on over to see how Jude created his Nativity after reading This is a Stable.
• Mary and Joseph Toilet Paper Tube Puppets at Make Learning Fun.com
• Nativity Week at Katherine Maries
• Amy's Free Ideas has a comprehensive step by step How to make a Toilet Paper Tube Nativity Set
• Cardboard Box and Toilet Roll Nativity Scene over at Create with your hands 
• Christmas Crafts for Toddlers over at Rhyme Time 

What are some Nativity projects have you done this season ?

Blessings


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