Our Victorian Christmas Day on Monday was the perfect start to this Christmas week. It allowed children to really understand where many of our Christmas traditions began. I was so impressed with how fantastic all the children looked (thank you for supporting with costumes!), it really added to the wonderful feel of the day.
We made many decorations to dress the Christmas trees. We used tinfoil to make hanging decorations, made traditional cornucopias to hang treats on the trees, used dried fruits, nuts (the pretend type!) and cinnamon sticks to make garlands and also made some very popular, traditional paper chains!
What do you think of the finished tress?!
We enjoyed cooking some traditional treats, mince pies and sugared plums.
We tried out some traditional Christmas crafts: decorated felt table mats, made napkin rings, peg decorations, Christmas cards and even marbled our own wrapping paper just like they did in Victorian times.
We enjoyed many traditional games that Victorian children would have enjoyed.
Victorian children enjoyed making up puppet shows so we had a go at our own.
And at the end of the day we enjoyed sharing all of this with our parents!
I must take this opportunity to say a HUGE thank you to the team of people who made this event possible- staff, parents, sisters and our Year 6 pupils too!
It finally remains for me to wish you all a very Happy Christmas. Thank you for your continued support through out the term and looking forward to seeing you all in 2017!
Mrs McMillan
