Mr. B's first Christmas Program (and dress shirt)

Mr. B. is growing up, as evidenced by his very first "dress shirt" for his very first preschool Christmas program. Once he was dressed (and already feeling very grown up), we noticed that he and Jeff (still dressed from work) had on the exact same outfit. But Mr. B was quick to point out it wasn't quite the same - he needed a pen in his pocket!

Then we were off to his first Christmas program (without pen). If you watch the video, after a few seconds you will hear one very loud, slightly flat singing voice -- that's my grandson! He was all about the singing - until his jingle bell broke towards the end, then he was all about fixing it.

If you don't have Christmas spirit yet, go attend a school Christmas program... or watch this one. The school was very smart to keep the 3 and 4 yr olds to a quick 10 minute program, but it's 10 minutes of sweetness and Christmas spirit!

My grandson is in the light blue shirt, back row, second one in - and the loudest voice. Of course.

Easy Christmas Craft for Preschoolers

I am trying to do at least one Christmas craft project a week with Mr. B. when he's here, and this week we did a fun project - a "stained glass window" decoration.

I found the original idea at Midwest Mom's blog. We did it slightly different because Mr. B. didn't have the patience to gently place individual squares of tissue paper. He's got another cold and wasn't feeling all that great, so we did the speedy version.

I cut out two candles and surrounding circles (cut as one piece) from black construction paper, then layed one on top of clear contact paper, and cut the contact paper the same size as the outer circle. Mr. B. used a shaker to sprinkle silver glitter (I would have used gold, but didn't have any handy). Then we tore up white and green tissue paper and Mr. B. simply dumped it on top of the contact paper and pressed it down with his hand. When the contact paper was covered, I placed the second construction paper candle with matching contact paper on top, and voila! We have the prettiest window decoration!