Winter Tea Party

With the weather getting to such low temperatures here in Saskatchewan, we’ve been stuck in the house even more than usual. Yesterday, I thought I’d make a tea party for some of the children to help keep them occupied.  We had lots of fun! Here are a few pictures. 

Getting everything ready. I had some special snacks I’d been saving, I pulled those out and made some tea. 

The snacks!  Colorful mints, assorted cookies, peanuts, and we also had a bowl of pretzels. :) 

The tea tray. Tea, cream, sugar and snacks. 

Ready to eat! 

Happy sigh! I love pouring tea. :) 

Hope everyone is having a good winter! 

  “And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.”

-Ecclesiastes 3:13

Marshmallow Snowman

I saw a cute idea for making marshmallow snowmen to go on top of hot chocolate that I wanted to try. Today I realized we had big marshmallows and some of the other things needed to make one. Below is my first attempt. Not as cute as the Pinterest picture, but not bad. :) 

I used toothpicks for the arms and legs. The picture where I got the idea used small pretzel sticks, but I didn't have any on hand. For the eyes, nose and buttons I used small pieces of gummy fruit snacks we were eating with our hot chocolate at the time.  It was fun, and the children thought he was cute. :)