9 Days to go...

How exciting! Box #9 means only 9 more days till Christmas. We can hardly wait!


Today's activity was actually a double activity. The clue inside their little boxes was simply a tiny little hand cut drawn on some blue paper. Bianca initially weren't too sure what the activity might be, but when I told her she was pretty excited. A while back, one of the kids' favourite shows was Blue's Clues. Now if you are not familiar with the world of Blue's Clues, you can watch it here.

"Steve, the host, presents the audience with a puzzle involving Blue, the animated dog ... To help the audience unlock the puzzle, Blue leaves behind a series of clues, which are objects marked with one of her paw prints. In between the discovery of the clues, Steve plays a series of games—mini-puzzles—with the audience that are thematically related to the overall puzzle ... As the show unfolds, Steve and Blue move from one animated set to another, jumping through magical doorways, leading viewers on a journey of discovery, until, at the end of the story, Steve returns to the living room. There, at the climax of the show, he sits down in a comfortable chair to think—a chair known, of course, in the literal world of Blue's Clues, as the Thinking Chair. He puzzles over Blue's three clues and attempts to come up with the answer"

As an adult, the show is pretty annoying, but the kids absolutely loved it. And so today we played "Blue's Clues" (or rather Lea's clues - because they were my handprints) to figure out what today's activity would be.

The kids loved looking for and finding the different clues and then drawing the clues into their notebooks:


Once they found all 3 clues, it was time to sit in the "thinking chair":


So what do you get when you have the following clues:

- A house?
- Some lollies / sweets / candy?
- A gingerbread cookie cutter?

That's right! Decorating a gingerbread house. "Wow, you really are smart" (as they would say on Blue's Clues) :-).

Well, to be honest we mostly decorated gingerbread biscuits because my attempt at making a small little gingerbread house wasn't all that great and it turned out pretty sad looking (but I'm sure that tomorrow the girls will be eating it all up anyway, so it doesn't really matter) :-).


Today was certainly a lot of fun!