December 14, 2010

5 FUN HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS (& PARENTS TOO!)

Oh (Yummy) Christmas Tree!
Make this easy and yummy Christmas Tree (from ice cream cones) this year instead of a Gingerbread House!



Ingredients
-Ice Cream Cones (sugar cones)
-Frosting (Green or White)
-Sprinkles and Candy

Build Your Tree
1. Flip ice cream cone upside down
2. Decorate with green frosting or white if you'd like a snowy Christmas tree
3. Add sprinkles or candies to create ornaments for your tree
4. Top tree with special candy!
5. Yum!

Thank You to Nora Singer, Mistress of Science, for her creative and delicious Christmas Tree recipe

Holiday Trains! All Aboard!
Enjoy the magic of Christmas aboard a decorated Holiday Train. Kids love the lights and sounds of Holiday trains.
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, try out the Vasona Park Holiday Train in Los Gatos. Ride this holiday train through a fantasy world of Christmas light displays set up throughout the park. Or if you're in Wasatch Mountains in Utah, check out the Heber Valley Railroad's North Pole Express. Check your local listings for fun and festive holiday trains in your neck of the woods! 

Choo Choo!

Donate a Dinner 
Take your little one to the grocery store and pick out a meal for a family in need.
Have your child choose:
  • canned meat
  • vegetable
  • dried pasta 
  • or other non-perishable foods
Our Petite Lemon Founder took her 3 year old and 1 year old to the local Grocery and they loved picking out a meal for someone else! What a great way to show them the true meaning of the Season, by donating to your local food pantry.

Turn Your Pancakes Into Snowflakes!
Sprinkle the magic of the holidays on your little one's breakfast.

Gently place a snowflake cut out or doily (don't have one? simply fold paper and cut out a snowflake) to a cooked pancake and allow your little one to sprinkle power sugar over the snowflake cut out. 


Remove the cut out to reveal snowy snowflake cheer on your pancakes!


Snowy Strikeout!
Cooped up inside? Little ones getting antsy? Let's go bowling!
Save empty bottles or cans and use them as bowling pins.
Wrap a ball in gift wrap or white paper.
Bowl Away!


1 comments:

Randy and Susan Landon said...

I like this idea. Thank You.