This evening, Miss G and I put together something I loved making as a child… a simple paper chain.  We started with some paper scraps I had left over from a Christmas bunting and used a paper cutter to trim them into neat strips.

Miss G then chose her “special starting paper”, loaded one end with several swipes of a glue stick… 

And I helped her roll it up and she pinched it tightly while counting to ten.

Together, we added ring after ring…

Until we had this sweet little holiday-themed paper chain.  I’m not sure what we’ll do with it yet… In my classrooms, I’ve always used them as a countdown tracker of sorts, snipping off one link until the big day, but I’m not sure that Grae is going to want to cut apart the creation she’s so proud of.  It may just be a sweet little addition to the holiday decor we’ve slowly been adding around our house.

♥