She's going to be home for how long???? Christmas break.

If you are anything like me you are both excited and dreading the Christmas holidays. You are sure to hear "I'm bored" at least once a day on any given day. So here are some great ideas to help you entertain your little ones.

1. Make Crayons from all the old broken ones you have laying around. Here are a great set of instructions for doing it http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/02/05/old-broken-crayons-not-anymore/

2. Wait til it gets dark and go Christmas light hunting. To make it even more fun create a scavenger hunt or bingo game out of it to see who can find the most or different kinds of decorations.

3. Make Kool-Aid play dough, not only is it already colored it smells good too. Instructions here http://runwithglitter.blogspot.com/2011/08/kool-aid-play-dough.html

4. Make home made Moon Sand, this stuff is so much fun and stores really well. Instructions here http://www.playbasedlearning.com.au/2011/03/moon-sand-recipe/

5. Pull out all the board games and have a family board game party while watching your favorite holiday movies!

6. Make these http://www.pre-kpages.com/christmas-tree-math-printable/ super yummy Christmas trees for that extra little sugar rush we all could use this time of year.

7. Make cookies to give to family and friends!

8. I use to love making ornaments as a kid, so make some with yours! Here is a great recipe for Salt Dough Ornaments http://www.katyelliott.com/blog/2009/11/diy-salt-dough-ornaments.html

9. On Christmas eve make Reindeer food! http://kidscooking.about.com/od/christmasrecipes/r/reindeerfood.htm

10. Finally, during the Christmas holidays, much like summer vacation all the stuff that was learned during the school year might start slowly leaking out of small brains. So to fight against this leakage read read read, if you have little ones read to them, here is a great site where kids can have actors reading books to them. I saw this website while watching The Chew which is one of the greatest daytime talk shows ever, look it up. http://www.storylineonline.net/ For older kids have them read aloud to you, make it a challenge by placing an amount of books to read by the end of the holidays and reward them if the goal is met!

See you tomorrow!