December has been a month of celebrating and exploring for us here at monkey puzzle. We have been enjoying the festive leadup, getting busy and creative with lots of decorating, creating, cooking and even some outing and trips!

We are fascinated by all things trains in ladybirds and have taken a few trips to the station by now, but we finally decided to go on the train and to take our train trip to Harpenden. We packed our bags and headed to the station where we bought our tickets and they let us through the big gate!  On the train we looked through the window and looked at what we could spot. Once we got to Harpenden we headed to the café and enjoyed babychinos, bananas and a disco in the café!

In Butterflies we have been super busy creating shopping lists by cutting up our catalogues, then going out to Sainsburys to buy all the ingredients we need to make our yummy mince pies and Christmas gingerbread biscuits. We also took a trip to Morrisons to buy things to donate to the local food bank (we each got a free balloon for being so generous!)

We made a post-box for all the letters to Father Christmas and visited the St. Albans Cathedral where we learned little bit about the history. We wrote notes to place on the tree and we left the Christingles that we made there.