TY Xena
We do that too! It is a really neat gift, and fitting for all. My kids love those candy wreaths, and buy one every year (usually for a charity).
Please share your Xmas craft ideas with me
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Valis
Hmmm maybe get some xmas tree ornaments she could decorate intricately w/beads or gold leaf or whatever and maybe a pic of a family member on each one...a lasting arts and craps idea. I always have my kids make me new ornaments. Pull all of them out every year...kind of like my own xmas timeline for and from them.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
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simplesally
You can get oranges and cloves. Stick the cloves all over the oranges or just in a design. Then put them around the house or in a bowl. There is also something I have that is a piece of wood shaped like a tree with nails coming out of it --- you can stick lemons, oranges (or oranges with cloves), so it looks like you have a "lemon" tree or "orange" tree.
What about plaster of paris??? Your kids can pour it into a pie pan and stick their hands in it and then paint around the hand print or just paint the whole thing. That would be a nice keepsake.
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Mulan
I read a great idea last year. You take a clear glass or crystal bowl, fill it with small clear ornaments (take the hanger off first). Then put a candle down into the middle (or do that first). It makes a really pretty table centerpiece or coffeetable arrangment. The candlelight flickering off of the clear ornaments is very pretty.
I bought plain globe ornaments, all colors or whichever color you want, and use glue glitter (I buy it at Michael's) to write all the names of the family, one on each ornament.
There are many ideas and ornament making things at Michael's.
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Jim_TX
I was going to say a horsie and a doggie... (quoting Charlie Brown - looking up at the clouds)
Ahem... anyway... a couple of ideas that I have had in the past... but they may be too much on the 'practical' side...
Idea #1: Take an old Printed Circuit Board - I usually have access to 'throw aways' - and using double-sided masking tape - affix a small pad of paper to one side of the board. Add a string and a pen, and viola, a custom made pad for making shopping lists.
Idea #2: My daughter wanted to know what melted crayons looked like...
we got some aluminum cupcake holders, placed used broken crayons into the cups... not too many - just enough to cover the bottom or so...
sprinkle a bit of crayon shavings over the top for 'color flavor', and place into the oven for a few minutes. (Actually - you can play with adding the 'sprinkles' after you remove the still hot crayons from the oven - this may add some useful color streaks to the result.)
Watch very carefully - as when these crayons begin to melt together - you want to remove them from the oven - otherwise, the colors merge together into a blob of black or dark purple.
When removed from the oven, allow them to cool - then remove them from the 'tins'. They make cool 'recycled crayons'.
Not sure what to do with them afterwards... but they make a great learning tool to show kids what happens when colors are placed into the oven. *grin*
Oh - and moms - it doesn't mess up your precious oven - like my ex-wife who was not very curious about things, thought.
Hmmm... maybe, using red and green crayons, you could craft some unique and special Christmas tree ornaments. *wide grin*
Okay... I'll be quiet now.
Regards,
Jim TX
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Mulan
You can make really neat ornaments with hard candies. Arrange them in a circle on a baking sheet lined with foil. Bake them until they melt, running together enough to stick. When they are cool, put a ribbon through them and hang on the tree. Rachel (Princess) uses hard striped mints (the round flat ones). They come in red and in green. You can alternate the colors and it looks really pretty.
I also make Gingerbread Boys, and put a hole at the top of their head with a pencil before I bake them. After the kids decorate them, we put a ribbon through them and they hang on the tree too. I've also done it with Christmas Tree shaped cookies. You can get all kinds of cooky cutters and experiment.
I've also seen them made by putting crushed hard candy into a metal cooky cutter and melting them into the shapes of the cutter. You have to spray the cutter with Pam or something similar and remove them fairly soon, as soon as they are cool enough to handle, but still warm.
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little witch
Also,
You can make really beautiful candles.
Use baby food jars. Place a wick in the bottom, fill with wax, and decorate the outside with glitter, photographs, or wet tissue paper (looks like stained glass).
Decorate coffee cans with pretty paper, and fill with homemade goodies.
Give IOU's. Make pretty homemade cards, worth a car wash, house cleaning, babysitting, etc.
Here is how to make homemade paper for cards;
Collect dryer lint, Add water, put into a blender. Pour it onto a peice of screen, and let dry.
Cut to shape, and decorate with paint, glitter, pen, etc.
This makes a beautiful card, believe it or not.
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KKLUV155
Walmart has little paintable christmas ornaments made of plaster of paris. Very cheap and the kids can paint them themselves. They can paint them what ever color they want. That is what I am doing for my kids in the church nursery.
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orangefatcat
I am looking for a project of Santa Clause, It is made from a large plastic javex bottle. If anyone knows this project and how it is done would you let me know. Thanks
Orangefatcat
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La Capra
I was just at the art supply store today. getting little Hanukah gifts for my friend''s daughters. I got a kit of baking polymer (sculpey or fimo, I can't remember) that bakes into erasers. It was about 15 bucks for a half dozen blocks of clay. The kids can sculpt erasers!!! I know my friend's girls are going to love it. They will get it first night of Hanukah and be able to make lots of erasers for everyone for the remaining nights. Shoshana