Christmas Vacation Creations

We got creative over Christmas vacation and made candles and rafts. The candles were made using wax from old candles and molds from a candle-making kit we picked up from freecycle.

We made dip-candles as well, using tin cans to hold the wax and cold water.

The rafts were made from cut-up twigs from the trees that fell in the December ice-storm

(we are now in the midst of a January ice-storm). JJ used knowledge gained from shipbuilding books we'd been reading and included a mainmast and a rudder on his raft. A naval architect in the making!

Of course, we made snowmen, too.

Happy New Year!