• CHRISTMAS ART,  LITTLE PUZZLE ART

    How do children make Christmas trees from pine cones?

    “Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us”. – Roy Adzak My little puzzles and I took a trip to the forest to collect nature’s beautiful gifts – pine cones, for our Christmas projects. Then we went with my son to his favorite decorating store. We bought everything we needed to make our DIY art: more glues, paints, glitters, strings, pom poms, and colored paper. When my son picks glitter colors, I notice a lot of Christmas stuff around. I stopped next to the shelf with front door decorations. These door decorations are made of plastic, green Christmas tree branches with plastic bells and…

  • LITTLE PUZZLE ART

    How do children make a chocolate-free Santa countdown calendar? 

    “Christmas doesn’t come from the store. Christmas is family and a lot more time together”. There are signs of approaching winter in my village. Drivers struggle with frosted car windows, it gets slippery underfoot, and excited children look out for the first snow every day.My little puzzles slowly change autumn DIY projects into winter ones. And since winter is associated with the celebration of Christmas, we will start with a very simple, cheap but very meaningful craft which is The Advent Calendar. Being a parent myself, I know what the stories of having an advent calendar with sweets look like. My kids wanted chocolate every morning because a new day…