Winter Wonderland - Kids Night In Review
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What a busy time of year! Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and birthday planning, it seems we haven't had time to stop. We've also had family in and out for the last 2 months, and my parents came to stay over Christmas. This was great because I had some help with our December Kids Night In box! The theme I am reviewing is Winter Wonderland. Did you get yours?! January's theme is Stand Tall, which is geared towards teaching kids confidence! The order cutoff is January 13th!
What's Included:
Night In Itinerary
Included book - Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Art Paper
Water color tissue paper
Pipe cleaners
beads
Black marker
Glitter
Glue
Dancing snowflake cards
Juice mix
Pipe cleaners
beads
Black marker
Glitter
Glue
Dancing snowflake cards
Juice mix
Winter Wonderland Themed Menu:
The menu involved a favorite breakfast food around here....french toast! Except you cut them into circles to make snowmen. How fun! We actually have french toast at least twice a month on the weekends, so it worked out perfectly. We didn't make the topping for them, but I have super picky kids anyways so they were fine with the usual butter, powered sugar, and syrup!
Activities:
One of the activities was acting out how a snowflake moves. What does a snowflake look like if it's floating? Or twirling? My son got a kick out of this and tucked the cards away for playing another time.
We also worked on our fine motor skills by making a snowflake using pipe cleaners and beads. After forming the snowflake with the pipe cleaners, my son had to carefully place the beads on each end. Once it was finished and the ends were secure, we could bend and reshape the snowflake to any shape. After all, all snowflakes are different!
My favorite activity (and this is surprising because I usually put off the drawing activities from this box, ha!) was drawing and creating a sparkly snowflake. Most months, the drawing instructions are laid out in the itinerary and I end up drawing most of it. This month was different, we had to watch a step by step video in order to draw the snowflake and it went better than I had imagined. My son listened so well and followed every step so wonderfully, I didn't have to help at all with the exception of pausing the video every once in a while to allow him to finish the step.
After drawing the snowflake, we put the watercolor tissue paper around the paper, brushed on some water, and let it dry. Once dry, we removed the tissue paper and revealed a super colorful snowflake. The next step was to add the glitter to the flake. I really loved how it turned out and how great my son did. It showed me how helpful it is for young ones to have step by step directions rather than all at once.
We also worked on our fine motor skills by making a snowflake using pipe cleaners and beads. After forming the snowflake with the pipe cleaners, my son had to carefully place the beads on each end. Once it was finished and the ends were secure, we could bend and reshape the snowflake to any shape. After all, all snowflakes are different!
My favorite activity (and this is surprising because I usually put off the drawing activities from this box, ha!) was drawing and creating a sparkly snowflake. Most months, the drawing instructions are laid out in the itinerary and I end up drawing most of it. This month was different, we had to watch a step by step video in order to draw the snowflake and it went better than I had imagined. My son listened so well and followed every step so wonderfully, I didn't have to help at all with the exception of pausing the video every once in a while to allow him to finish the step.
After drawing the snowflake, we put the watercolor tissue paper around the paper, brushed on some water, and let it dry. Once dry, we removed the tissue paper and revealed a super colorful snowflake. The next step was to add the glitter to the flake. I really loved how it turned out and how great my son did. It showed me how helpful it is for young ones to have step by step directions rather than all at once.
The included book was Snowflake Bentley Jacqueline Briggs Martin. The book was rather long and a little to deep for my little guy, but he still enjoyed the pictures. The focus of the story is that all snowflakes are beautiful no matter how different, which relates to all living things. We may look different, but we are all beautiful in our own ways. It would be a great story for older children.
If this sounds like something right up your alley and want to try out the January box, you have until the 13th to get yours in time, so click my affiliate link here: Stand Tall.
*This post does contain affiliate links. I do make commission when any purchases are made using these links.
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