Painting Joy

Joy to the World...

...the Lord is come.

We've been learning Christmas carols this month.  There is so much rich truth tucked away in those familiar songs.  And with all of our world geography explorations over the last several months, it only seemed appropriate to put this easy craft together!

You can really use any kind of paint medium - water colors, tempera paint, finger paints, etc...

I traced circles and then set them to painting.   Actually, I made enough so that I could join in the fun too!

This was a great exercise in self-control for the youngest especially to only pick ONE color to paint with when faced with such appealing choices.  When we finished this step, we all just enjoyed painting with ALL the colors on fresh paper!

Due to sickness this last week, we divided this project up into two days.  The following day while sick boy was napping, the two olders set to work cutting land masses out of green tissue paper and gluing them down.

 We got a little excited about the glue use over here...

But eventually, we were able to attach everything together with twine and hang up our new ornaments!