Polar Express Party

Last year I mentioned that one of our Christmas traditions is watching the Polar Express movie and drinking hot chocolate. This year on the last day of school before the holiday break, Nichole's kindergarten class had a Polar Express party. They read the book, did a few activities, and even had their own tickets to ride the train. A few days before the party Nichole was convinced that she was going to get to go to the real North Pole. We had to explain to her that going to the North Pole was just pretend. It would take too long to get there and it was too far to do during school. They would pretend and just stay in the classroom.

Jeremy volunteered to premake Christmas balloon animals (by animals I just mean little sculptures in general- there were trees, reindeer, snowmen, Santas, and elves) for Nichole's class. He also built a 5 foot balloon train for the party and stayed to help out.

Nichole's teacher got to take the train home.

We decided to have our own Polar Express party the next day. That morning Jeremy made eggs and bread shaped like the front of a train.

Since we had to rearrange the pieces of the couch to fit our balloon Christmas tree anyway,

we set them up like a booth on the train with a table to hold our hot chocolate. Jeremy read the book then we watched the movie while drinking hot chocolate of course.