Developing our fine motor skills

We made dried orange slices decorated with cloves and cinnamon; the children used their pincer grip to pick up tiny cloves and place them delicately into their orange slice before drying them in the oven. The smell was incredible.

Concentrating faces

Den building 

Frosty fun making marks

Whittling with potato peelers.

Vegetable peelers are perfect for removing the bark from branches to reveal the bright clean natural colour of each branch. Each whittled branch is tied together to form a big abstract tree which will be on display for our mince pie and mingle.

Magnetic transient art

Mince pie and Mingle