The SC & more n°300: Notebook

This week is the 300's edition of the SC & more, isn't that a great number? Isabelle is taking part in a Creativity Fair and asked us to prepare blank notebooks to make notes and drawings on our visit. Unfortunately I am nowhere near Paris and cannot visit this amazing looking fair. I also don't need a notebook as I have several already.

Christmas time is coming soon though, so I thought of making my children a notebook each for Mass on Sundays.

The drawing on the right is from Tante Menoue

A blank notebook would not make sense for my almost 3yo and my 4yo, they have one each already, a second one would be useless. Instead I alternated coloring pages with blanks pages. I found the drawings online, the very last one is from Tante Menoue who does amazing religious drawings and objects.

In our family Christmas isn't just about the presents, and there is no Santa coming. We celebrate the birth of Jesus and I am rather keen on presenting the children with religious images and stories. That does not mean we avoid non-religious stories, far from it! We have books about Santa, but for the children they remain stories.

I hope you like my little booklets. Go and have a look at the others' creations, there are some really nice ones!

Labels

I've decided to label the drawers of my children's wardrobe, as well as their toys boxes. It helps them tidying their toys as well as finding what they want to play with. They are proud when I send them to pick out their clothes by themselves. I hope to encourage them to be a little more independent. So far it seems to work.

 

Open-day at the Opera

We live in a beautiful german town: Dresden. It has many advantage: beautiful buildings, landscapes, many museums, great transports etc. On Sunday the 7th, the Opera (Semperoper) opened its door to visitors for free. We could visit the opera, listen to music, watch rehearsals, visit the workshops and many more things.

With T., 19mo, and N., 3yo, we didn't want to sit listening to a concert, so we chose the workshops option. A choice we did not regret! It was great! We visited where they make the decors and where the costumes are designed and sewn. 

Here are a few pictures of our visit and of what N. made:

It was a very exciting visit for the children and they were both exhausted afterwards. The next day, N. did chat again about it, still remembering the pretty tutus she had seen ^^

Summer calendar

In a month N. will turn 3. She is such a big girl now, it is amazing how time flies. In September she will be going to the Kindergarten and spend her days there instead of staying home with T. and me. It will be a drastic change, but she seems keen on the idea. Last week I told her about her birthday AND the Kindergarten. I also got her a book:

Since then, every single morning she wants to read that book and she asks if today she is having her birthday and whether tomorrow she is going to the Kindergarten. When I tell her that no, we still have a while to go, she asks if instead she can go to school then - she knows about school because her uncles are still young and going to school ;) .

This was driving me mad, so after talking with my mother about it, I decided to make her a calendar. She would be able to cross every day off the calendar. While browsing the web a little bit, I got onto a blog "Idées à nous" which has a lot of activities to offer for pre-schoolers. The one I picked was the Summer 2014 Calendar. I printed the stuff and got N. to work on it. She was over the moon. She loves drawing, colouring and DIYing ^^

Ever since we finished the calendar, she is less insistent about what is happening when. It is definitely good for my nerves ;)
We have included the different summer birthdays as well as our trip to the grand-parents (symbolized by two planes since I will be flying with the children).

What do you think of it?