Jonathan had been reading in his Shakespeare book and wanted to try his hand at some pomanders. Each of the boys made one and we're waiting for them to dry. The Elizabethans evidently believed that disease was caused by "bad air" and so they carried around scented goodies to sniff whenever they got a whiff of something foul. They believed that it helped stave off illness.
We'll simply be wrapping ours in ribbon and hanging them on our Christmas Tree once we've dried and shrunken them (that seems wrong, gramatically, but I've checked, and it's acceptable; funny examples, too).
