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Here's a surefire strategy for keeping your mini whirling dervishes, aka, your kids, from spinning out of control from excitement as the holidays get closer: crafts! On Saturday, Dec. 4, these seasonal and stimulating craft events will channel your jumping jacks and jills' holiday anticipation and keep them absorbed.
In New Canaan, the Historical Society holds its annual Open House in the Town House from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featured are two workshops for kids, one making gingerbread houses and the other, Victorian cornucopias. Kids can build decorated gingerbread dream houses, using many assorted candies provided. Offering inspiration are other gingerbread houses on display, created by amateurs and professionals. In Victorian times, paper cornucopias were filled with candy, nuts, toys and fruit and hung on the Christmas tree. Kids can decorate their own cornucopia and fill it with candy and toys to bring home. For more information, visit the Historical Scoety's website.
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art's Family Art Adventures, from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, features "Rags to Bags!" A Tote Making Workshop. Glenn Robinson, founder of Bags for the People, an environmentally conscious nonprofit that converts the throw-away to the reusable, leads a hands-on workshop. Kids and parents will learn some new environmental tips, be introduced to sewing, and be helped to make a reusable bag. Participants are invited to bring old clothing or fabric to use or donate. Admission is $4 and $7. For more information, visit the Museum's website.
At the Garden Education Center in Greenwich, kids and parents can have breakfast and spend 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. working with Santa on some special Family Holiday Trimmings projects. There are four workshops to choose from: making a custom photo ornament, decorating a gingerbread man, creating a pinecone bird feeder and decorating a mini Christmas tree. Workshops cost from $3-$25. Visit the Center's website for more information and to register. Happy holidays -- and expect to get some wonderful, handmade presents this year.
What kind of crafts do you and your family do for the holidays? Let us know by posting below or e-mail me at cfortier@mainstreetconnect.us.
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