Holiday art

Audrey and Kate have been working on holiday-themed crafts at school. Kate made a decorative ceramic plate with her handprint on it (the yellow one to the left in the first photo) at preschool, so with the one Audrey made last year we now have a set. 

Audrey got to decorate a gingerbread house during her kindergarten class' holiday party today. Dada had volunteered to make a batch of the icing for the houses, and Mama and Dada had to search all around town for an exotic ingredient -- meringue powder -- called for in the specific icing recipe the teacher wanted made (we did eventually find it, at Sur La Table).

Audrey's also been working on Christmas-themed writing exercises. The text in the third picture reads: "Santa is great because he brings presents on Christmas Eve. We open the presents on Christmas Eve. The end."