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This evening we decorated our Christmas tree. As I was putting the lights on the tree two of my daughters emptied the the stockings that were filled with our ornaments. They both started playing with the ornaments acting out each character. I was reminded of my childhood when we would play with ornaments as my mom put the lights on the tree. We would then help her decorate the tree which always ended up with thick patches of ornaments, mostly toward the bottom. The next morning when we woke up the ornaments were magically spread evenly throughout the tree!
I am going to keep a few of the ornament clusters in place on our tree. Once I put the popcorn and cranberry garland on it should even out the uneven distribution of ornaments. We made the garland this afternoon. I threaded red embroidery floss with an embroidery needle for each child. Pushing the needle through the popcorn was not as difficult for them as I had expected. Both girls accidentally poked their finger a few times but there were no tears. Next time I will have thimbles for them to use. My oldest daughter, age 5, was able to string the popcorn and cranberries quickly and created a pattern; popcorn, popcorn, cranberry, popcorn popcorn, cranberry.... The 3 year old started stringing a popcorn then a cranberry, every other one. After three pieces of popcorn she started eating the popcorn and just threading the cranberries! Her string is so cute, my oldest daughter told us she thought her sister's was the best and we should put it on the front of the tree! We had so much fun with the easy project I am inspired to try to make more ornaments with the girls.
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