Not Just a Candle

We have been hearing about Yankee Candle since we started going to play group. I know you're probably thinking you're just now hearing of those candles. No, I'm talking about this really cool place Yankee Candle has next to their factory in Deerfield, Ma. It's this huge store w/ multiple rooms w/ different things going on in each room. It's really hard to explain and I tried to take pictures but most of the places (that were interesting) had min able lighting. Half of the place is candles everywhere. There's a food court, a place to build a bear, two places to make a candle, Christmas decor (w/ the little Christmas city decorations everywhere..really cool), lots of ornaments, a toy room where you can play w/ all sorts of toys and see Santa (who is there all yr. long) etc. We couldn't really afford anything, but it was definitely fun just walking around looking at all the cool Christmas stuff and ideas.

So anyway we went today w/ our play group and had a lot of fun. Alexa really seemed to enjoy it even though it seems like more of a tourist site than a thing for a kid. And it was hard making her put all the toys that she wanted back on the selves, but she did good w/ it.

First thing we did was watch these guys that are not real play music and sing. Alexa kept asking, "Are they real?" She wouldn't believe me. They did look pretty real though.

Then we went candle dipping. We lined up all the kids let them pick their favorite candle. Then lined them along the table and gave them the rules and directions.
So what you do is pick a white candle then stand in front of the color table. Then you dip your candle in one of the color wax and then in cold water and there you have it.

So here's the color table and all the kids.

( on the left) The colored wax: red, pink, purple, blue, yellow or mix the colors to make your own color. ( on the right) is the cold water.



Alexa picked a two-sided candle w/ a lady bug and a flower.

She got her finger too when she was dipping the lady bug in the red.

The Kids playing:

Issac and Alex having a good time.

Charlie and Addison having their own fun in the stroller.

She must have said something funny....j/k.

Christmas Cities

My favorite part.

They had some weird bubble machine that looked like snow was falling. So every 4 min. it would go off and all the kids were excited about the (fake) snow.

Crowned King Issac and Queen Alexa