Our homeschool group had a Brunch get together on the First Friday of December. In addition to sharing a pot-luck breakfast after Mass, we had crafts for the kids to make. I brought these wooden cigar boxes that I bought for a dollar a piece at a yard sale. I had 14 of them. Fancy decorative paper, old Christmas cards and pictures of religious subjects were available for the kids to decorate their boxes, both inside and out with.
Modge Podge is a product that I was introduced to here and is used as a glue and smoothing agent to make a decoupage effect, securing the pictures to the box with a varnish like surface.
Everyone brought something to share and there was plenty of food.
This year, our group has taken advantage of coffee to go from Dunkin Donuts. We get a couple boxes of coffee and 2 boxes of hot chocolate for the kids. It's delicious and so easy.
Our next craft was making ornaments by pinning colored buttons onto styrofoam balls with decorative straightpins.
This activity was delightfully time consuming allowing everyone to stand around the table talking and working to create something beautiful.
Five minutes before we left for the church hall, I thought to invite Meg and the kids to see if they wanted to join us. They met us there and had a great time making Christmas crafts and having breakfast with so many nice families.
