In which Hannah makes a village in winter

Every day I put a different activity/treat/surprise in Hannah's advent calendar. Today she made a village in winter out of card, boxes, paint, glue, glitter (lots and lots of glitter) cotton wool and twigs. It went something like this:

First she painted the boxes to look like buildings.

 I love the details like the doorstep and the tiny stained glass window on the church

The houses remind me of an illustration from a Mr Men book

Next she made roofs out of black card and added some frosty glitter

When the biuldings were dry, she decided where to place them on a piece of cardboard and added a frozen pond made from silver paper.

I helped her collect some twigs, bits of pine tree and evergreen shrubs from the garden and she added some frost (yes, more glitter!) to them to make trees.

 Then she decided where to put the paths and I helped her make them out of black card. When the paths were in place, we coated the rest of the board in glue and covered all the available space in cotton wool snow.

When the village was finished, the Playmobil family and their dogs came out to play.