Day #3 of our Lego Friends Advent Calendar is coming your way! Door #3 is in the upper left hand corner of the box.
Drum roll, please, as we open today’s door!
Hahaha! I have to admit that I was a little surprised to see what was hiding behind door #3! It’s a tiny little puppy and…you guessed it…some doggie poop and a shovel to clean it up! 🙂
Let’s put this adorable little puppy into our Lego Christmas scene.
Be sure to stop back tomorrow for our next reveal! 🙂
It’s Day #2 of our Lego Friends Advent calendar reveal! Let’s find door #2! 🙂
What surprise awaits us…? Open the door!
Here’s all the pieces…
To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what this is? Maybe an archway? What’s your take on it? There are 3 extra pieces with this set.
Maybe it’s an archway where you take pictures? It’s cute and festive!
See you tomorrow for Day #3! 🙂
Welcome to December! It’s time once again to share a Lego Advent Calendar with you! 🙂 I hope you’ll join me each day as we open a door and find a surprise inside. There are a few different kinds of Lego Advent calendars…we’ll be doing the Friends version. Let’s get started! Here’s what the front of the box looks like…
And the back of the box…
There is an extra flap on the box which you can open and it makes the box into a cute background for all the treasures you will find inside the box.
Ok, so we open one door each day from December 1st through December 24th. Today is the first so we start with the door that has a number 1 on it.
Opening the door…
Pull out the plastic bag and open it. Let’s take a second here and make a note that if the pieces in the plastic bag don’t match up with the picture on the door, you probably need to take the inner box out and turn it around and put it back into the outer box. This happened to me last year and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong. Haha! Hopefully your advent calendar was put together correctly and the picture you see on the door will help you put the little set together each day.
Here is today’s set! The figure can wear her hair or the blue helmet for when she’s playing in the snow! (And yes, she is missing one hand, but that’s how she’s made.)
So this is the first set to start off the advent calendar! 🙂
See you tomorrow for door #2! 🙂
Greetings once again! I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend! 🙂
Do you find it hard to make edible gingerbread houses, but you think gingerbread houses are just so cute? (Am I the only one?! I can’t tell you how many gingerbread houses have ended in failure at our house!) How would you like to make a simple gingerbread house out of foam pieces that’s easy enough for the kids to make mostly on their own? While it’s not edible, it’s very cute and totally mess free! 😉 I found this adorable kit at our Target store for $3.00.
The foam sheets are already cut and some designs have been printed on the foam shapes.
The pre-printed shapes punch out very easily.
There are some instructions provided in the box, but our 10 year-old granddaughter didn’t even look at them. 😉 It goes together quite nicely. First she did the house part…
…and then added the roof pieces.
The Disney characters have stands so they will stay upright on their own. Stickers are included and you can decorate your gingerbread house as much or as little as you like.
So simple and yet so cute and festive! 🙂
It’s less than a week now until Thanksgiving! Are you ready? We aren’t, but we are working on it! Do you need a few more decorations to make your house look festive? Here is an age old craft that you’ve likely seen…and done…many times before but this can serve as a reminder for you. We’ll call it the trace-around-your-hand-turkey. 🙂 All we need for this craft is a piece of paper, a pencil and something to color with. I used markers for my example.
Place your (or your child’s) hand on the sheet of paper.
Trace around your hand using the pencil.
Lift your hand off after you finish tracing around it and then add a line at the bottom to close up the hand.
You have the outline of your turkey! Great job! Draw the turkey’s eye, beak, feet and wattles. (Wattles on the turkey are the parts done in red on top of and underneath his head.)
I probably should have turned my paper the other direction since my hand is rather big and there isn’t much room for his legs and feet. But maybe this guy is just short! haha! The fingers of the hand will serve as the turkey’s feathers, so go ahead and color them whatever color you like.
Now you can draw on a wing and then color the turkey’s body.
I chose to add the words “Happy Thanksgiving!” to my picture. You could also draw and color in the background with things like grass, blue sky, a barn, a tree, etc.
And you did it! How do you like your Thanksgiving turkey? I’m sure he looks great! Now for a little Thanksgiving turkey humor… 😉
I just found out that today is World Kindness Day! Wouldn’t it be great if each one of us could do something nice for someone today, just because? Maybe you could set a new goal that you will do something nice for someone else at least once every day! 🙂
I received an email from the Crayola company today and I wanted to share some of their information with you to help you make this a great World Kindness Day.
On the Crayola website, at crayola.com, you can find so many fun things to do! Lots of crafting ideas, gift ideas, coloring pages and more! There’s a special coloring page today for World Kindness Day.
Did you know there are Colors of Kindness crayons which would be perfect for doing some coloring today?
On the Crayola website, there is also a Clothespin Kindness Art Project! These fun clothespins would be great for any day and any time of year.
So what can you do for World Kindness Day? How about helping mom or dad with some household chores? You could color a nice picture and share it with someone. You could be the first one to share your beautiful smile with someone you meet or be the first to say “hello!”. Maybe you could hold the door open for someone, share a hug, give someone an honest compliment, call someone on the phone just to say “I was thinking about you!” and so many more things! I bet if you put on your thinking cap, you could think of MANY, MANY nice things you could do!
If you are reading this post, then I think YOU are awesome! 🙂 Happy World Kindness Day from me to you! 🙂
Yep, I found some more Lego sets with the price marked down! This is true for our local Walmart, but I can’t guarantee that you will find the same sets on sale near you, but it’s worth a look, right? So here we go!
Lego Disney “Up” House #43217. Regular price $60.00, on sale for $48.00.
Lego City Custom Car Garage #60389. Regular price $60.00, on sale for $48.00.
Lego Gabby’s Dollhouse Kitty Fairy’s Garden Party #10787. Regular price $34.97, on sale for $28.00.
Lego Marvel The New Guardians’ Ship #76255. Regular price $100.00, on sale for $80.00.
Lego Harry Potter 12 Grimmauld Place #76408. Regular price $120.00, on sale for $100.00.
There were a few more sets on sale for just a few dollars off. Also this tag was on display and you can get a free Lego Masters Mini Trophy set when you spend over $50 on Lego building sets.
Happy Lego Shopping!! 🙂
Happy Halloween, all you ghosts and goblins and witches and cupcakes and vampires and…you get the idea! 🙂 How about finishing off your Halloween with some silly Halloween riddles?
#1.) Why do ghosts never lie?
Answer: Because you can see right through them!
#2.) What kind of music do mummies like?
Answer: Wrap music!
#3.) What do you call a skeleton who sleeps all day?
Answer: Lazybones!
#4.) What fruit does Dracula like?
Answer: Neck-tarines!
#5.) What musical instrument do skeletons play?
Answer: A trom-bone!
#6.) What kind of pants do ghosts wear?
Answer: BOO jeans!
#7.) How do you fix a broken jack-o-lantern?
Answer: With a pumpkin patch!
#8.) How are vampires like false teeth?
Answer: They both come out at night!
#9.) What do you call a ghost that gets too close to a fire?
Answer: A toasty ghosty!
#10.) When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
Answer: When you are a mouse!
Hope you’ve had a great Halloween! 🙂
Greetings, everyone! Wow, sometimes life gets a little crazy and it’s certainly been that way for us! There’s been so much to do outside before winter sets in here. And things have been breaking down…like our well, our furnace, my computer acted up and on and on. But I’m hoping I can get things back on track now and share some fun things with you.
Welcome to the fall season! For today let’s share some giggles…ready? Here we go!
#1.) What do you call a lamb who dances?
Answer: A Baaa-lerina!
#2.) What do you call a messy hippo?
Answer: A hippopota-mess!
#3.) What do you call a chick that goes on an ocean voyage?
Answer: An egg-splorer!
#4.) What’s big and gray and goes up and down?
Answer: An elephant on a pogo stick!
#5.) What do you call a grumpy cow?
Answer: Mooo-dy!
#6.) Where did Captain Hook buy his hook?
Answer: At a secondhand store!
Now let’s try some tongue twisters! 🙂 Can you say these 5 times fast?
#7.) Crisp crusts crackle and crunch.
#8.) Six slimy snails slid slowly seaward.
#9.) I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.
#10.) Randy’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
Whew! Is your tongue tired? Do you have the giggles? 🙂 I hope you had fun and now you’re smiling! Thanks for stopping by!
The Kids Niche 