You wrap an empty toilet paper roll with colored tissue paper. Put confetti or a small prize into the hollow tube, and tie the ends of the tissue with gift wrap ribbon. Everyone pulls these open at the same time, exploding the confetti or finding their prizes. This craft is good for birthdays and lots of other festive holidays. Short rhyming verse describe the twelve months.
Soft paintings illustrate each short verse that describe the twelve months of the year.
Marvin and Milton are too young to stay up until midnight, so they great the New Year at dawn , waking all the neighbors. A brief description of days and months. This classic is available in a big book edition, with humorous rhymes for each month. The noted author for adults offers a short poem for each month. The 1965 edition has illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, and the 1999 has pictures by Trina Schart Hyman.