Tasty Trees

We did another fun little craft today. But this one we got to do it with Laoli! (And even though I didn't get any pictures of her (or me, for that matter) I promise we were both there!)

I mentioned in this post the other day a great book that we have that contains some very fun craft ideas for Christmas. This book is very helpful and encouraging to me because 1. I don't like crafts and 2. I really don't like messes!

So, after a tasty lunch of take-out Chinese at Laoli's house, we got out all the necessary items that we'd brought from our house. (My #1 Tip for a craft-time that won't mess up your house, "Do Said Craft at Someone Else's House. ANYone Else's House!")

Ta-DA! We ended up with these tasty little Christmas trees:

All you need is:

Ice cream cones

Icing (I bought white and dyed it green)

Whatever toppings you want to decorate your trees with

It's as simple - and tasty - as that!

While making these trees today, Laoli and I reminisced about the first time the children made these trees (way back in 2005):

We only had two cuties at that point...and, OH MY, how cute they were!

Elisabeth was 2.5 and Noah was almost 22 months and had only been home for a few weeks. He wasn't yet walking and I don't remember his fine motor skills being good enough to do all this on his own, so he probably had quite a bit of help "decorating."

Elisabeth concentrating real hard

But I don't think Noah's lack of fine motor skills were an issue, because I think they did more eating than decorating that day!

And I'm pretty sure they loved every minute of it...


...just like they did today!