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We’ve been listening to Putumayo’s Celtic Christmas since the end of October. Accordion, strings, and gorgeous vocals weave together a beautiful album to cheer you through the chill of winter and anticipate the Christmas season.
My favorite track is Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, the Gaelic translation of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas–beautifully sung and it makes you feel all warm and cozy all over.
With 11 tracks of joyful celtic instrumentals from “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and “Angels We Have Heard on High” to “Joy to the World” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, you’ll be ready for Christmas. Celtic Christmas
While enjoying your festive music, you and your children can explore the African serengeti through instrument and creature through the Putumayo Africa Sticker Collection.
With descriptions of native creatures and instruments, there are four sheets of beautiful stickers that peel off and on the pages and other stickers. My son preferred to put every single sticker on the book, “too many stickers, Mama,” he declared.
It’s a great tool to discover geography and cultural music with your children. Putumayo sticker books are available for Africa, Latina America, and Europe in a durable 9×9 hardcover pages filled with 120 reusable colorful stickers. Using their imaginations, children can build sticker stories on the fold-out landscape, explore countries on the full-color map. The stickers books retail for $11.95.
Bilingual coloring pages and a kid-friendly colorful glossary invite the creativity of coloring and drawing in the Putumayo Kids Latin America Coloring book.
The giant Latin America coloring book is made with paper that supports global reforestation efforts and printed with soy ink. Putumayo Kids has an Africa and Europe coloring book, too. Each coloring book inclues 20 oversized pages (11.5″ x 14″) that retails for $9.95.
You can purchase the collection (coloring book, sticker book, and CD) for Africa
Note: I received all featured items from Putumayo and Putumayo Kids for the purpose of this review.
One of our favorite holiday traditions is making clear toy lollipops
chevybelair1 at juno dot com
sounds cool…do you have a photo?
I’ll email you a picture when we make them….in the next week or so
We always have Christmas brunch with the grandparents after Christmas morning as a small family. This year, I’m bringing the grand baby instead of being one of them!
yum! what’s your favorite christmas brunch dish?
It’s the only day basically that I ever eat sticky buns. This year, I’m going to make them whole wheat and with coconut sugar!
Since our little guy is only 1 this Christmas, we are starting the tradition of looking at Christmas lights, because he LOVES “ights” “ights” “ights!”
aww! Christmas lights seem to bring out the little kid in all of us.
My fav. holiday tradition is a new one: It’s Skyping with the extended family in the UK. My two year old has seen and spoken to her uncles and cousins despite never having actually meeting them in person.
My favorite family tradition is the “Birthday Cake for Jesus” that we have for Christmas brunch. We’ve used the same recipe since I was little!
One of my favorite holiday traditions is when we chop down our Christmas tree. It’s like the start of the holiday for us and a big event. We get bundled up and go out to a farm. It takes forever because we have to find the perfect one. Of course it’s always way bigger than we need and takes up half the room when we get it home, but we love it. My son sleeps on the couch that night so he can see the lights. What’s funny is that he is a teenager now and still does it. Precious memories.
My favorite tradition is singing Christmas carols around the piano on Christmas Eve. I love that everyone sings out loud (regardless of the singing voice they’ve been given)
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