Today Joy opened the box for the last time. only one more box to open. Todays fun activity was to make Merry Mice for our neighbours. this was a tricky one because it turned out Joy and Teo were a bit too young to do much at all.
I traced around the template daddy made last night and let Donald cut it out
He found this quite difficult though so we swapped roles. Donald traced the templates for me.
I cut out the pieces he traced. I had to make 2 slits in the middle though and at one point I wasn't careful enough and slit my finger. I am glad it was me and not any of the children. Scissors are dangerous!
I showed Joy how to slot the ears into the body and let her help with that.
I also let her stick on some eyes and a pom pom nose.
We decided to make 2 per neighbour so we needed 10 in total. I thought Donald would like to assemble one so let him give it a go as well.
While Donald and I created the final Mice Daddy, Joy and Teo took some of the finished ones to our neighbours. Some of our neighbours were not home though so Donald will help to deliver those tomorrow.
There was some extra felt, eyes, pom poms and Candy Canes so we made some more for the kids to keep. Donald loves his!
Our neighbours were delighted with the special presents we made them, even our downstairs neighbour who always complains about us being too noisy appreciated the merry mice!
Thats 23 advent activities completed and only one to go!
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