Oops, we’re falling behind on the stocking thing…

#14 “Create a candle wax painting of the star that led the wise men to Jesus.”  We didn’t ever quite capture the star but we had a good time first pouring hot wax on our paper in some random design then painting over the wax with watercolor.  And since we had hot wax available we talked about letters and how people used to seal them with wax.  Then we sealed some of our own imaginary invitations.  Brother, obviously too young to be using hot wax seemed content to blow our candles out for us and make charcoal drawings with leftover (cooled) match stubs.

#15 “Color something together.”  We decided to skip this one in favor of making Sister a new piggy bank instead.  She has been racking up quite a stash of cash lately but has been keeping it in a plastic baggy.  Grandma started this saving business a couple of months ago by giving each of the grandkids a memory verse and telling them when they could say it perfectly she would not only give them a quarter but also a dog bank to keep it in.  Sister was so proud the day she got hers.  She couldn’t help playing with it and wanted to take it everywhere.  Rushed little hands holding too many things and ”Crash!”  The poor little dog never had a chance.  The new bank is fashioned from an old peanut can covered in pretty paper.  Simple and relatively unbreakable.