Christmas Gifts: Christmas Balls Made by Children, or the Fourth Meeting of the Children’s Art-group

Merry Christmas, our dear readers!

Last Sunday meeting of the children’s art-group was devoted to Christmas.

By the way, we have prepared for you an illustrated story about Jesus Christ’s birth for children which you can download here or in the section of this blog “Material for Kids”.

Last Sunday, there were 4 children at the art meeting. First, we sang songs. Due to it, the children’s attention was established (as well as the atmosphere of our today’s meeting). Then a little theoretical and practical episode followed: I asked the kids how one can make other people happy?… The children were smiling but keeping silence. When finally the voice of an adult was heard, “You can give someone a present”, I took a bag where each child found a parcel with toy cats and dogs . I wanted to show the children not only the theory how one should act but also its practical use (and also to illustrate the idea that presents can be given not only for something but also at any time without any special reason ).

At the art&craft part of the meeting the children were decorating Christmas balls first with plasticine and then with acrylic spangles.

We are moving to cooking. Each child had got a plate. First, the children were mixing butter with flour with their hands. What joy they got from such a simple activity!

Then they added sugar, baking powder, oat flakes, cinnamon, an egg, raisins and nuts.

Have you guessed what we were cooking? Right! Oatmeal cookies.

The Recipe of Oatmeal cookies

100 g butter, 1/2 glass sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 glass flour , 1,5 glass of oat flakes, raisins, cinnamon, baking powder, nuts.

The cookies turned out to be very tasty!

The last part of our meeting was a substantial dinner. And when the kids had run to another room top play and we, adults, were still sitting at table, I felt such a great feeling of content and joy in my heart: it was cold outside, and there was a Christmas tree in front of us and everyone felt that he/she was at home, at the place where he/she should be! And everything is so joyous and great!

Anastasia

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Photos by the author

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