Cute Hats and Cinnamon Ornaments

I decided to do a little craft with Kayleen while Jackson and Anna were gone to preschool one day this week. I let Kayleen pick a craft from my Christmas board on Pinterest. :) She picked a cotton ball winter hat garland.

I cut out some hat shapes in colors she picked and then she glued the cotton balls on and decorated each hat. She was so cute about them. She picked a hat out for each person in her family (she included Kevin and I since we live in their house. :) She asked me to decorate a couple hats and I helped put the glue down but other than that she did everything.

I taped the hats to a long piece of yarn and we hung it up in their toy room. The kids have loved having it in there. :)

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Anna wanted to make some cinnamon ornaments to put with her gifts to friends this year so that's what we spent our Wednesday morning doing. It was so fun!

Messy hands. :) (I had Kayleen take this picture of my hands and it was hilarious trying to explain what I wanted her to do.)

After the ward Christmas party we came home and finished everything. We put one to two ornaments with each of these cute kitchen towels that my amazing, wonderful, fabulous, incredible Mama Lyman made. YOU ARE AMAZING MAMA!

Such a fun time spent with my sister! The house smelled amazing all day and I only broke two ornaments by the end of the night...I was pretty proud. :)

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Hopefully I get to do a few more Christmas crafts over the next couple weeks before December is over. They are definitely my favorite, especially when I get to do them with family and friends. :)

-Holly-

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