Christmas calendar days 11-13

 

This weekend we went to a Sca event. In a nutshell it means medieval reenactment for three days. It took me some thinking how to organize the Christmas calendar for those three days. On friday we were busy packing and travelling, saturday away from home, and today travelling again and now, well, at home but soooo tired. But these three days turned out to be a huge succes!

On friday morning in the calendar was a little bag of peppermints and a note that said:

Here are some candy cane seeds so you can grow your own candy canes! So we planted the candy cane seeds (in rice since there wasn't enough sugar in the cupboard), and on sunday when we came home they had miraculously grown. And, as we had candy canes conviniently at hand, sunday's calendar task was to make snowman soup. 

For the soup you need:

Hot chocolate broth

Dried snowballs (mini marshmallows)

Snowman's chocolate buttons

Candy cane walking sticks

 Such a great idea, that I found in Pinterest. And our five-year-old loved it! She was so eager to come home to see if the canes had grown at all, and oh the joy when she noticed that they had.

 
Then there was left to decide how to execute saturdays calendar suprise medieval style. We allready have a basket full of wooden horses and felt balls etc but lets face it, one basket for three days and two kids is not that much. There was an immediate need for new medieval toys! So the Christmas calendar was a great opportunity to make and give them a new pair of medievally appropriate ragdolls.

I made the dolls following this super easy tutorial by miss Gioia. Their clothes are mimicing viking style because we reenact vikings ourselves. Viking toys for viking kids.

And they love their dolls! Mission completed.