Christmas Fun

Last night we decided to try some Christmas crafts with Noah. On Pinterest I saw a craft that was supposed to be a Christmas tree and it was simple, waffle cone turned upside down, covered with green icing and decorated with candy.  I thought it may be something he would enjoy so I bought  the stuff and decided to be lazy and bought store icing as well.  I was going to dye it green but as young as he is, knew he wouldn't know the difference and decided to skip that part and left it white to keep the mess minimal! 

Aunt Kate, icing the first cone and Noah wondering what the heck we were doing. 

 Ornery aunt Kate put icing on his nose and Mr. Picky about anything being on him didn't even notice because he was really paying attention.

 Just started and did not like once he got the icing on his fingers.....

 That didn't last long and he started putting the candy on the tree, then taking it right back off to eat it.  Apparently candy is much better with icing....

Next I found this cheap little gingerbread man kit so we did that after the cones.  Basically all it was, was stickers you could put on the foam gingerbread man.  Noah loves stickers so this was right up his alley!

 Carson didn't think craft time was too exciting, he fell asleep on me

 Our finished products!

Matthew and I have always decorated a gingerbread house each year since we have been dating and always thought we would have that be one of our holiday traditions but this year decided to do something a little easier.  Maybe next year we will try with Noah, but it will be a few years before Carson would get into it.  I've been trying to think of some more neat traditions to start with our kids, anyone have any neat ideas they want to share?