by Santaelf | Dec 23, 2018 | Christmas activities, Christmas today
Happy Little Christmas Eve, as they call it in Norway. Ornament calendar The hidden image tonight was cute – Merrit peering at a smiling bauble in a tree! We then made a red and orange bauble to hang on our tree. Lego City The Lego City calendar produced a...
by Santaelf | Dec 22, 2018 | Christmas activities, Christmas today
Only two more flaps to open after tonight – we’re getting very close to Santa’s arrival now! Have you planned your snack to leave out for Santa yet? Ornament calendar We pressed out and created a shooting star for day 22. The picture underneath is...
by Santaelf | Dec 22, 2018 | Christmas activities, Christmas Lights/Decorations, Christmas today
While we don’t go shopping anywhere just to get their gimmicks, we have managed to gather a few of the Woolworths Christmas collectables this year. Have you collected them, too? I decided to keep them aside so we could put them together as a Christmas activity,...
by Santaelf | Dec 21, 2018 | Christmas activities, Christmas today
Well that’s it for the school year – the last schools have now had their final days (yes, state schools in some states have had classes right up to today!) and summer holidays are officially here! I think that makes tonight’s advent calendar opening...
by Santaelf | Dec 20, 2018 | Christmas activities, Christmas today
Wow, we’ve made it to day twenty now. What has happened on the 20th December? Well, in 1699 Peter the Great changed New Year from 1 September to 1 January, Grimm’s Rumpelstiltskin was first published in 1812, It’s a wonderful Life (a classic movie...
by Santaelf | Dec 19, 2018 | Christmas activities, Christmas today
Wednesday, middle of the working week and heading for our last weekend before Christmas… What Christmas cooking have you done this year? Maybe some edible gifts, a gingerbread creation, vanilla wreaths or perhaps some Turron. Ornament calendar Merrit holding a...