There are things that become a part of your families Christmas traditions, some with purpose, and some quite by accident. One of the 'accidental' traditions for our family is the Annual Santa Fest at Green Mountain Elementary (where Ben attends, and where Paige used to attend). The first time we went, Paige was in Kindergarden. The following year we went because we had so much fun the past year and Ben was now old enough to really enjoy it. And the rest, as they say, is History! We look forward to going every year and it has become one of the 'things we do' to usher in the Holidays. It starts at 9am with breakfast-this year it was cinnamon buns, bacon, fruit and hot chocolate/coffee. The cost was four dollars a person but if you brought a non perishable food item, the cost was three dollars per person, so after scrounging through our cupboards for things that we thought would make a nice addition to someones holiday dinner, we spent a total of 12 dollars for breakfast for the four of us...not bad I'd say. In past years, breakfast has always been pancakes instead of the cinnamon buns and I thought our 'hates any type of change' kid would NOT be happy with the replacement of pancakes with cinnamon buns, especially as he (you guessed it..BEN) doesn't even like cinnamon buns -or so we thought! He ate TWO of them....as Ben said "My tastebuds have changed". While we ate, the choir from one of the high schools serenaded us with Christmas Carols...they did a wonderful job!
Mark and Paige having breakfast...Ben has already headed to the craft activities by this point...
After breakfast, the kids go around the gym to different 'stations' and do a variety of crafts, all with a christmas theme. They made snowflake ornaments....
and metal ball ornaments with glitter...
clothespins were turned into Santas, and I think we got more glitter on our clothes than anywhere else! Santa showed up at 11 and Paige actually sat on his lap, which is only the second time in her whole life!
After the kids had their fill of 'crafting' we headed out to do our weekend grocery shop and then back home to get ready for our NEXT event of the day! It was a very busy Saturday!!
Hugs to all,
Jaye
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