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For our next 12 Days of Christmas activity, kids can enjoy concerts, holiday markets, light shows, and other events! Things are obviously going to be a little different this year, but there are always ways to get into the Christmas spirit. ------------- Pour notre prochaine activité des 12 jours de Noël, les enfants pourront profiter de concerts magiques, marchés de Noël et d'autres événements! La façon dont nous célébrons sera un peu différente cette année, mais il y a toujours moyen de se mettre dans l'esprit de Noël.   This activity is part our 12 Days of Christmas Collection, tied to our new giveaway! Learn more HERE. / Cette activité fait partie de notre collection des 12 jours de Noël, liée à notre nouveau concours! Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ICI.

Chores and fun in the same breath? You bet. Here, some ideas for getting kids to beat you at the cleaning game. Hide treats, stickers, or pennies in, on, or under knickknacks, then ask your child to dust. She gets to enjoy the rewards only when everything is dusted. Post individual lists of chores kids can do (one for each child in your family). Whenever your child accomplishes a task, have her mark it with a sticker. Whoever has the most stickers at the end of the week gets the Helper of the Week award. Play "Go Fish" with a basket of clean socks. Divide the socks among the players, leaving a pile to draw from. Each player, in turn, holds up a sock and asks another player if he has the mate. If not, the asking player must take a sock from the top of the draw pile. When finished, the player with the most pairs wins. Turn any socks that stay single into child-friendly dust mitts. Insert child's hand into clean but dampened sock and use it to remove dust from houseplants and furniture. Have a scavenger hunt. Make a list of everyday items (newspapers, magazine, shoes, etc.). Set a timer for 5 minutes, then have kids collect stray items throughout the house. The winner is the child who picks up the most (and returns them to their rightful spots). After dinner, do a "10-minute Tidy." Set a timer and have family members scatter through the house putting away the day's clutter. Appoint someone to be Inspector D. Clutter. Armed with a laundry basket and plastic police badge from the dress-up box, this person roams the house and puts stray belongings into clutter "jail" (the basket). To set an item free, its owner (Mom and Dad included!) must do a chore. Turn a bucket into a personalized cleaning caddy. Use permanent marker to write your child's name on it and have him decorate its with other drawings. Store supplies such as sponge, dustrag and roll of paper towels, etc. Show them the money? Some experts believe allowance should be reserved for teenagers. School-aged children will easily get behind the idea that chores are something you do as a member of the family — not for money. They'll be excited just to show off their skill at completing a task.

A welcome addition to any holiday table, our delicious Rainbow Christmas Wreath is made from Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ white cake, fluffy white frosting, sprinkles and food coloring. Ingredients 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ white cake mix Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box Red and green food color 1 container (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped fluffy white frosting   Betty Crocker™ Decorating Decors® red, green and white candy sprinkles   Steps Heat oven to 325°F. Generously grease 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with shortening or cooking spray. Make cake mix as directed on box, using water, oil and eggs. Pour half of the batter into medium bowl; set aside. Divide the other half of batter equally between 2 small bowls. (You will be left with 3 bowls of batter.) Add red food color to 1 of the small bowls and mix well. Add green food color to the second small bowl and mix well. Pour half of the white batter from medium bowl into cake pan. Carefully pour red batter over white batter in pan. Carefully pour green batter over red batter. Then pour remaining white batter from medium bowl over the top. Do not mix the colors. Bake as directed on box until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack placed over a cookie sheet; remove pan. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Place cake on serving plate. Divide frosting between 2 small microwavable bowls. Microwave 1 bowl on High about 5 to 10 seconds; mix well with spoon until smooth enough to drizzle. With the spoon, drizzle white frosting back and forth around the whole cake in a striping pattern until you use all of the frosting (allow some frosting to drip down onto plate in middle of cake, if desired). Microwave second bowl of frosting; stir in a few drops of green food color. Drizzle over cake, scattering back and forth in the same type of striping pattern. Decorate with sprinkles. Let stand until frosting is set before serving.

Better hurry up and eat them! These sugar cookies are melting away…Transform your favorite sugar cookies into melting snowmen in just a few minutes. Ingredients 1 pouch Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix 1 pouch each Betty Crocker™ Cookie Icing in white, red, blue, and green 1 tube Betty Crocker™ black Decorating Gel 1 pouch Betty Crocker™ Candy Shop decors rainbow chips 1 bottle Betty Crocker™ Chocolate Sprinkles 12 marshmallows Steps Follow baking directions on sugar cookie pouch, dividing dough evenly into 12 round cookies. On cooled cookies, draw a “snow puddle” with Betty Crocker™ White Cookie Icing. TIP: Draw the outline of the puddle, then go back and fill in the shape. While the icing is still wet, immediately place a marshmallow to one side of the cookie. MAKE THE ARMS: Once the icing and marshmallow have set, pipe two “branches” onto each cookie using black gel. Add fingers with chocolate sprinkles. MAKE THE FACE: Using a small dot of white cookie icing, stick two “coal” eyes and a nose onto the marshmallow with Rainbow Chips. Pipe a small dot for the mouth with black gel. MAKE THE SCARF AND BUTTONS: Using blue, red, or green cookie icing; carefully draw scarves around the base of the marshmallow. Using a small dot of white cookie icing, stick three “coal” buttons beneath the scarf with Rainbow Chips. Allow cookies to set for at least one hour before serving.

Here's a holiday sugar cookie that doesn't need rolling. Just four ingredients and simple candies make creating snowmen faces super fun and frosty. Ingredients 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ sugar cookie mix 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 egg 1 container (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped fluffy white frosting Red string licorice Assorted candies

Take the mess and stress out of holiday baking with these Easy Christmas Cookies! Here's a traditional family recipe for Christmas cookies requires batter being refrigerated overnight, kneading, lots of flour… then pounds of powdered sugar to make icing that never comes out to quite the right consistency.  With the help of Pillsbury™ Funfetti® Holiday Cake Mix, Holiday Vanilla Flavored Frosting, M&M’s® White Peppermint and M&M’s® Holiday Milk Chocolate, the girls and I mixed, baked and decorated a batch of these Easy Christmas Cookies in just two hours.

For today's activity, it's time to get some milk and cookies ready for Santa! Check out some great recipes! -------- Pour l'activité d'aujourd'hui, il est temps de préparer du lait et des biscuits pour le Père Noël! Découvrez quelques bonnes recettes! Santa's Cookies by Delicious Table Santa's Cookies by Food Network   This activity is part of our 12 Days of Christmas Collection, tied to our new giveaway! Find out how you can win Habs tickets OR a $50 gift certificate to an exciting family activity by clicking HERE. -------- Cette activité fait partie de notre collection des 12 jours de Noël, liée à notre nouveau concours! Découvrez comment vous pouvez gagner des billets des Canadiens ou une carte-cadeau (50$) pour une activité familiale passionnante en cliquant ICI.

Time to get your hands dirty! For today’s activity, kids will work on their baking and decorating skills by making delicious holiday treats. From elaborate gingerbread houses to simple cookies, we’ve got a bunch of different options at varying degrees of difficulty! --------- Préparez votre tablier! Pour l'activité d'aujourd'hui, les enfants peuvent travailler leurs talents de pâtissiers et de décorateurs en préparant des gâteries de Noël. Des maisons en pain d'épices élaborées aux simples biscuits, nous avons un tas d'options différentes à divers degrés de difficulté !

Yayatopia is happy to present our brand-new Greeting Card Creator! Kids can make their own custom holiday cards by choosing from a host of backgrounds and images. Make as many as you want, personalize them, add text, and send them directly to loved ones by email! And remember, you can make and send as many as you want! Try it on desktop for the best experience. A brief history Did you know that the first holiday card was made by Sir Henry Cole in Victorian England? Overwhelmed by the unanswered letters sent to him by his many friends, Cole came up with the idea out of pure necessity: he had no time to write back to every letter, so he needed an alternative! He partnered with illustrator JC Horsley to bring his idea to life, later printing out a thousand copies of an illustrated card that simply read, “A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year To You,” along with the salutation “TO: _____” allowing Cole to quickly personalize his responses. Giveaway This activity is part of our 12 Days of Christmas Collection, tied to our new giveaway! Find out how you can win Habs tickets OR a $50 gift certificate to an exciting family activity by clicking HERE.

It’s game time! From Monopoly to charades, every family has their own holiday favorites, but kids can also play some fun web games featured in the links below for today’s activity! -------------- C'est l'heure du jeu! Du Monopoly aux charades, chaque famille a ses jeux préférés à jouer ensemble pendant les fêtes, mais les enfants peuvent aussi jouer certains jeux en ligne présentés dans les liens ci-dessous!   This activity is part our 12 Days of Christmas Collection, tied to our Habs ticket giveaway! Learn more HERE. / Cette activité fait partie de notre collection des 12 jours de Noël, liée à notre concours de billets pour les Canadiens! Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ICI.

Here are a few ideas to accomplish today's activity / Voici quelques idées pour réaliser l'activité d'aujoud'hui:  Santa letter program / Programme de lettres au père Noël | Canada Post Letter from Santa Claus! This activity is part our 12 Days of Christmas Collection, tied to our Habs ticket giveaway! Learn more HERE. / Cette activité fait partie de notre collection des 12 jours de Noël, liée à notre concours de billets pour les Canadiens! Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ICI.

7 Indoor Snowball Games & Activities These snowball games will keep my kids active and engaged (indoors!) for quite a while.  Here is our list of snowball games, but you and your little ones could probably think of many more! Snowball Fight Game: This one is obvious, right?  You may as well do this one first because your kids are dying to throw these things at each other anyway.  We have a few ground rules at our house such as always aim below the chest (no head shots).   On Target:  Print out or draw a target that can be taped up on a door, wall or window.  Have the kids throw the snowballs to try to hit the target.  How many times can they do it?  Throw a little learning into the mix for younger children by having them count out loud or have one child draw tally marks on a chalkboard while another is throwing.   Bucket Toss:  Pretty much the same thing, only have them toss the snowballs into a bucket or bowl.  You can use masking tape or painter’s tape on the floor to mark off a line a few feet away.  See who can make the shot from all the way across the room!   Stack ‘em Up: Try to make a snowball tower.  You can mention a few engineering principles, like a pyramid shape with a wide base will probably work best.  The kids can use a ruler to measure their creations once they’re done.   Knock ‘em down: Build a pyramid out of light-weight plastic cups, then roll or toss the snowballs to knock them all down.  Bonus points if your kids can do it with just one snowball.   Relay Race:  Grab a couple of wooden spoons and have a good ‘ol relay race.  This is just like an egg race, but uses the snowballs instead.  And if these snowballs fall on the floor, there’s no mess to clean up!   Pile On:  Have the kids pile as many snowballs as they can onto an overturned Frisbee or plastic plate.  How many can they load up?  And can they carry it across the room without losing any? How to make the snow balls:  Pick up several sets of white stockings from your local dollar store.  Then, you’ll need some scraps of batting and a pair of scissors.     Cut of a good-sized piece of batting and stuff it in the toe of a sock almost all the way to the heel.     Then, hold the toe of the sock in one hand and with the other pull the open end of the sock so that the stocking is stretched as much as possible.     Keep pulling and wrap the cuff part of the sock around the stuffed part of the sock. Then, fold the cuff back over on itself so that the stocking will stay folded into a ball. This is what it looks like on one side of the snowball.     A whole flock of snowballs made in less than 5 minutes!      Grab the snowballs and let the snowball fight begin! How to Make Fluffy DIY Indoor Snowballs 1. Cut a notch of on short side of your cardboard. The notch should be about an inch wide and a couple inches deep. 2. Wrap yarn around the cardboard over the notched end. The number of times will depend on the thickness of your yarn. Our thick and fussy baby yarn needed to be wrapped about 55 times for the right end result, although if we’d wrapped more yarn the snowballs would have been even more dense which is great. Cut the end once you’ve wrapped your yarn around the cardboard enough. 3. Cut a length of yarn from the main roll to use as a tie, about 8 inches or so should work just fine. Using the notched area of your cardboard wrap the string around the center of the bunch of yarn a few times cinching it down into an hourglass shape. Make sure to cinch it tightly and tie a knot. 4. Once your tie is in place slide the looped yarn from your cardboard. Once it’s off it will look a little like a bow. 5. Cut through the looped yarn on both ends. Cut down the center of the loops as best as you can. Cutting the looped ends will give you a rough pom pom or ball shape. 6. After the loops are all cut down the center fluff the ball a bit to help set the yarn in place and then trim the ends to give your snowball a nice evenly round shape.  

The “ugly” sweater project you guys have all been waiting for is here!!! And we went TROPICAL! I’m all about unconventional Holiday traditions, so wrapping a palm tree in Christmas lights seemed right up my alley. Plus, this post gave me an excuse to bust out my pineapple drink cups again. Ha! You can make this sweater in less than an hour, so I expect to see all of you wearing and gifting tropical palm tree sweaters to all of your friends soon! SweaterGreen and brown yarnSize J crochet hookTapestry needleFelt in pink, lilac, orange, yellow, brown, blue, and greenBrown embroidery threadHot glue gun   1. To make the palm trees, we followed this crochet pattern. Double the stitches for the larger palm tree. If you don’t want to crochet the palm trees, cut palm leaves out of green felt and a trunk out of brown felt. 2. To make the Christmas lights, cut teardrop shapes out of different colors of felt. Put a brown felt cap on the top of them. Hot glue all of the lights together on a string of brown embroidery thread. 3. Using pink felt, cut out a silhouette of a flamingo. Add brown felt legs and a small felt santa hat. Hot glue everything together. 4. To assemble the sweater, use fabric glue to attach felt “sand” pieces to the bottom of the sweater. With a tapestry needle, sew the crochet pieces onto the sweater. If you’re using felt for the palm trees, glue them on with fabric glue. 5. Glue the flamingo in place. Drape the Christmas lights over the palm tree trunks and glue them in place. We also placed a string of lights around the neck of the sweater, so glue that in place if you want that addition as well. Allow everything to dry for 24 hours before wearing.  

For our next activity, uglier = better. Go all out and make the ugliest Christmas sweater you can imagine! Just grab some glitter, tinsel, a couple of cheap ornaments, and some glue to Frankenstein together some fashion-backwards goodness. We’ll give you guys some pics as inspiration along with some how-tos! Stick some candy and decorations onto a sweater and voila: a wonderfully ugly work of art has been created. You can also rummage through your closets to find some tacky, vintage gold! --------------- Pour notre prochaine activité, plus moche = meilleur. Faites le plus laid des chandails de Noël que vous pouvez imaginer! Prenez des paillettes, des guirlandes, quelques ornements et de la colle pour créer quelque chose de vraiment hideux. Nous vous donnerons quelques photos pour vous inspirer, ainsi que des conseils pratiques! Collez des bonbons et des décorations sur un pull et voilà: une œuvre d'art merveilleusement laide a été créée. Vous pouvez aussi fouiller dans vos placards pour trouver de l'or ancien et de mauvais goût!   This activity is part our 12 Days of Christmas Collection, tied to our brand new giveaway! Learn more HERE. / Cette activité fait partie de notre collection des 12 jours de Noël, liée à notre nouveau concours! Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ICI.

Enjoy some easy DIY Christmas photo booth props printables for your Christmas party fun. 

Make a lasting memory for today’s Advent activity. Christmas is right around the corner, and if you haven’t taken any family pictures yet, we’ve got you covered!  Grab the little ones to take some fun holiday photos, and don’t be afraid to get creative! Sure, you can always snap a bunch of pics during the lead-up to Christmas and make a cute collage, but we’ve also got some more elaborate ideas for you in case you want to go all out! __________ Faites de l'activité de l'Avent d'aujourd'hui un souvenir durable. Noël approche à grands pas et si vous n'avez pas encore pris de photos de famille, nous avons quelques idées pour vous! Prenez les petits pour prendre des photos de fêtes amusantes, et n'ayez pas peur d'être créatifs! Bien sûr, vous pouvez toujours prendre un tas de photos juste avant Noël et faire un joli collage, mais nous avons aussi des idées bien plus élaborées!

Make this year's annual family christmas photos fun and excited, enough to make people smile or laugh out loud. Be ready for some calls asking (1) what brand duct tape is this (ha!) and (2) how the heck did you do this?? And, not to worry, this photo doesn’t actually involve taping your kids to the wall. Which means the answer to question #1 isn’t all too important – but it’s just good ol’ Duck Tape if you’re still curious.  Sorry to disappoint the duct tape aficionados with you – the tape we use would never hold up a 35-pounder with just a few pieces (not that I want to try). This is all thanks to good ol’ Photoshop and a white backdrop that I place on the ground for the kids to lie on. Best of all, this whole session will only take 15 minutes! 

A homemade snow globe is a childhood must! The best part about these snow globes is that they give you the perfect opportunity to get rid of some of those pesky plastic figurines lying around the house. Another idea is to use LEGOs -- if your child can part with them! Materials Small glass jar A plastic figurine or Lego Glycerin (optional: while it's not necessary, it makes the glitter float better) Glitter Sequins Water Spoon Superglue or a hot glue gun Directions 1. Ask your child if he can find the perfect plastic figurine or Lego piece to use in his snow globe. No sense in buying a new one, if there’s already something at home! 2. Put glue on the inside of the jar’s lid. Place and stick your child’s plastic figurine on it. 3. Fill the jar with cold water. 4. Add 1-2 teaspoons of glitter and stir. 5. Add a few drops of glycerin. 6. Screw the lid on the jar -- you can glue it if you're concerned about your child trying to open it. 7. That's it! Have your child shake the jar or tip it upside down to make it "snow."

Create this handmade snowman snow globe on a snowy winter day. It's easy to assemble and you can personalize the clay snowman however you like.