3rd Annual Christmas in July

We love Christmas in July! We started the day with Santa waffles. 

Then we read Santa Bruce by Ryan Higgins and made some Bruce ornaments. (I found some wooden round circles at Walmart that I used as the base. The rest is made from cardstock, brown felt, google eyes, and a cotton ball. 

Then we made some Christmas creations out of Legos. 

The kids had a "snowball" fight with water balloons. 

Then we threw and shot (with a spoon) marshmallows into the tree made from red solo cups. 

We pulled out the Christmas photo boards for some photos. 

We decorated Christmas cookies. 

Made frozen hot chocolate (2 cups ice, 2 packages hot chocolate, and 1 cup of milk: after blended we added chocolate and original whipped cream and chocolate syrup)

The kids wrapped each other with toilet paper and added a paper nose to become snowmen. 

And they painted gingerbread houses. 

We did take advantage of a cheap present for each kid from Amazon Prime Day! They loved that part! 

Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Party

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we decided have a little party. 

I started by making an astronaut photo board. 

I created two "time capsules" for the kids to open. In the capsules, I put moon sand (2 cups flour, 1/2 cup baby oil, and a little bit of silver paint), some rocks to resemble moon rocks, some rocket crafts, a star finder, dehydrated food, a diagram of the space shuttle, an astronaut training guide, NASA t-shirts, rocket launchers, name tags, and the local newspapers that reprinted the cover of the paper from 1969. 

I bought a couple of yards of glow in the dark fabric from Joann's and used that as a tablecloth and photo backdrop. We checked out some moon books from the district library and put together a lego shuttle. 

We turned this cookie cake into a moon. 

The kids put on their shirts and name tags for a few photos.

We ate rocket Popsicles and went outside to use the rocket launcher and balloon launchers. 

I put hair gel and food coloring inside a ziploc bag and taped it inside a cardboard box. This became the scanner for entry into Mission Control. 

For Mission Control, I went around the house and found calculators, remotes, buttons, lights, a microphone, levers, circuits, an old laptop, etc and put them on a piece of cardboard covered with a tablecloth. 

We finished the night by reading the picture books and watching some footage of Apollo 11.