Santa and all were very good to Riley and Reese this year. From Santa Reese got Bullseye from Toy Story 3 and Riley got a Nerf Rifle. The favorite game for the Wii that everyone got into playing was Top Shot Arcade, and everyone also loved Reese's stuffed animal, Dewdrop.
Reese decided that she wanted to leave a card for Santa this year. We didn't have any cookies on hand so we left Santa white chocolate pretzels and Rice Krispies Treats. Santa are half of one Rice Krispies Treat and most of the pretzels. He also took the beautiful card that Reese made.
I thought I had the pictures of the Christmas cards on my camera, but the ones I took were actually from my phone. Tonight, I finally got around to taking the pictures to post. Reese has done a wonderful job and has bugged me every night to do Christmas cards. This project is right up her alley.
The first time I tried this project with Riley, Reese's had was the size on the left. I believe that Reese may have been over a year old then. The hand on the right is Reese's present day hand with her own decorations.
These cards are additional designs we came up with to use with the handprints. Reese has decorated these on her own. The penguins came out especially well. The Christmas trees are a favorite for her to decorate. The reindeer, we made just a few, were a bit challenging to decorate. Reese got confused as to where his collar should be!
After some research on handprint penguins online, we finished up the penguins tonight. Reese decided that she wanted large googly eyes, a beak, and feet for her penguins. She painted the bellies white and then added black fins. The fins were her own idea and they turned out very nice.
Pics tomorrow.
When Riley was four or five years old, I tried to get him to make handprint Chirstmas cards. We got through about ten cards before he got bored. I gave up on the project and went with something else.
Reese is five this Christmas, and since she likes to draw and do crafty things so much, I thought that I would get out the stuff and try again. She was all gung ho. On Sunday we did hands in green, red, white, brown, and black. My original intention was to only do green, brown, and white. The other colors were for details. She wanted red hands for stockings and then we had to come up with something for black hands; they will be penguins.
Every night she has pushed me to do these Christmas cards and I usually give in. The white hands were made into Santas (Family Fun Magazine idea), and they are all complete. The green hands are Christmas trees, and she has four left to decorate. Tonight's project is the reindeer (another Family Fun Magazine idea). There were only five brown hands so she is doing all the reindeer tonight.
Once all the hands are complete, we will probably have to do some more because she has so many friends that she wants to give cards to now. If she takes mine, I will not have enough, so we will make more for everyone!
