Hanukkah is here - we are making Menorah

we spent a nice warm afternoon few days before Hanukkah, enjoying holiday spirit. we love creating our own special menorah. 

the kids, full of excitement, went outside strolling with a mission to collect natural elements that could be used in their designs.

they came back hands full with acorn cupules, few sticks, sliced apple (that our neighbor gave them) and our dog whom they found enjoying a sun bath (and thought it is much more important that he'll join them)

I placed the cupules using a glue gun, then the kids picked the materials they would like to design with and the happy work begin.

Eden, with her never ending patience, decorated her work with tiny colorful flowers and a small dot of play dough in the center of each one of them.

Tom started decorating with thin dough snakes that soon turn to be very fat snakes that soon afterwards became into a "mighty dinosaur tower" that soon after transformed....