Thursday, December 8, 2011

Christmas in London

Carson is doing a "Christmas around the world" project at school.  Each student is to learn about Christmas in a different culture.  They encouraged the students to ask someone they know who is from or lived in a different country.  Carson's "Nana" (brad's mom) is from England so Carson asked her what Christmas is like in London.  The three things he learned were;
1. They call Santa "Father Christmas", not Santa.
2. They made their own Christmas ornaments
3. It is very cold at Christmas time and snows a LOT.

The other part of the project was to "dress" a paper doll to show what a kid may be wearing at Christmas time in London.  Nana told him that he would most likely be wearing grey or black shorts.  Black or grey shoes.  Long black socks, and a blazer.  So Carson and I went to my scrapbooking stuff and he picked out different patterned paper to dress his doll.  I drew a blazer and cut it out, traced the pattern for shorts and he did the rest... this is the final product:



Nana will now go to his class next week and teach the kids about Christmas traditions in England.  Carson has been counting down the days.  He is so excited to show off his Nana.

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