Yuletide Crafting
Hand & Feet Reindeer
You may use brown paper bags, construction paper, poster board for this project. Help to trace o the child's shoes and both hands onto the paper, then cut them out. Using the shoe for the reindeer's head, glue on the hands to make the antlers. You may do the nose by gluing either a red pom-pom, piece of red construction paper, or it may be drawn with colors. Now have the child finish it by either drawing on eyes and mouth or you may
wish to use larger sized "wiggle" eyes and a piece of pink felt for the mouth.
Cinnamon Ornaments
1 cup cinnamon
1 tablespoon cloves
1tablespoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons white glue
3/4 cup applesauce (Let drain in a strainer for several hour)
Mix cinnamon, cloves & nutmeg and add applesauce & glue. Work mixture with hands until smooth and well mixed. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness cut with cookies cutters. Use straw to make hole for hanging. Put on wire rack to dry at room temp for several days. Turn twice daily so they don't curl. Use ribbon or pipe cleaners to hang.
Glitter Ornaments
Pattern, White glue and Glitter
Make pattern by drawing or tracing simple designs on to paper (bell, star, tree, etc) Place a sheet of waxed paper of pattern. Trace pattern with white glue. Fill in design completely or partially with a dots, stripes, etc. Sprinkle on glitter, let set. Shake off extra glitter Let dry completely Cut off excess waxed paper. Decorate back same as front. After drying Punch hole and hang with ribbon, thread, or fishing line.
Jingle Wreaths
***Requires parental supervision because of hot glue and wire cutters
Materials Needed:
Pipe Cleaners, or Heavy Craft Wire
Package of Jingle Bells
Ribbon
Small Christmas ball, bows, or decorations
String or Ribbon for hanging the ornament
Hot Glue
Wire cutters or heavy duty Scissors-if you are using the scissors don't ever
expect to cut fabric, or paper with again with them ! :-)
Directions:
First decide what size you would like your wreath to be. Cut the wire or pipe cleaner 2" longer than the desired size of the wreath. String the jingle bells onto the pipe cleaner or wire. Bend the jingle bell wire into a circle. Twist the ends of the wire (or pipe cleaner) together to secure. Cut off excess wire. Tie a bow at the top of the wreath, to hide the twisted wire. Tie on, or hot glue your choice of holiday embellishments, such as bows, balls or mini presents. Cut a 5" piece of ribbon or string. Slip the string through the wreath and tie the ends together. This will be your hanger.
ALL Kinds of Trees
From ChildFun.com
Egg Carton Tree
Two egg cartons, large piece of paper, glue, paint, misc. craft items such as fabric scraps, beads, etc. Cup the egg cartons so you have one row of 6 cups, one row of 5 cups, and so on to 1 cup. Paint the outside of the eggcup green. When the paint is dry, glue them on a
large sheet of paper as follows: Glue the 6 cup row on the bottom of the paper, just above that glue the 5 cup row, and so on until you have used all the cups. It should look like a triangle when you are done. Decorate with misc. craft items.
Yule Tree
Green Tag board (the bigger the better), paint, shaped sponges Cut out a big green tree out of giant tag board and sponge paint ornaments on it.
Christmas/Yule Trees
Green construction paper, glue, red paint, misc. collage materials Cut out Christmas tree shapes. Decorate the Christmas tree: you can dip a finger in red paint and make fingerprint ornaments, you can use various collage materials, such as glitter, buttons, fabric scraps, to decorate as desired. You can also make wreaths.
Christmas Trees
Construction Paper, glue, colored cellophane, crayons Cut out trees made of construction paper. Punch out holes in the tree. Have children glue colored pieces of colored cellophane or construction paper to the back to cover the holes. This makes it look like lights on the tree. Turn over and decorate the tree with whatever they wish
(crayons, construction paper bits, etc).
Ice Cream Cone Christmas Trees
Ice cream cones (sugar cones), green frosting, white frosting misc. Candy items Take a sugar cone, turn it upside down & spread with thick, green or white frosting & add sprinkles & candies on to decorate it.
Pine Cone Christmas Tree
Pine Cones, Green Paint, Glue, Misc. Craft Items - such as Yarn, beads, etc. Cover the work area with newspaper and paint the pinecone green. When the paint is dry, glue on yarn, beads, etc for the decorations.
Christmas Tree Mobile
Green construction paper, glue, tape, crayons, yarn, misc. craft items (such as fabric scraps, beads, etc.) Cut a large Christmas tree shape -triangle- out of green construction paper. Cut the triangle into one-inch wide strips. Lay down the strips in the order you cut
them out, with the strips laying about an inch apart. Tape a long piece of yarn onto the back of the strips. Use a scrap of brown construction paper to cut out a pot & tape it below the tree; cut off any excess yarn hanging below the pot. Decorate the tree as desired.
Hand print Christmas Tree
Green, red, and yellow construction paper, crayons, pencils, or markers, glue cut ten handprints on green paper, a yellow star, and ten red hearts small enough to fit on the hand print. Start gluing one handprint at the top of the page and with the fingers pointing
down. This is the top of your tree. Use the rest of the handprints fanning out to make a Christmas tree. In the star write I love....then in each heart let the kids pick special people... mommy, daddy, friends, grands, pets, dolls, etc. Glue star on the top and a
heart on each hand.
Hand-y Christmas Trees
To make a tree, press a child's hand into green tempera paint. Keeping the fingers and thumb close together, press the hand on a piece of white construction paper, making the tree, leaves and branches. Cut out a trunk from brown construction paper and paste on.
Cut out a foil star, or yellow star and attach to top of tree.
Snowball Tree
Styrofoam cone, green construction paper, cotton balls, toothpicks or straight pins, glue, glitter, clear tape Take a Styrofoam cone and wrap it in the paper. Tape it together. Stick the cotton balls onto the cone with the pins or toothpicks. Lightly dab some glue onto the
edge of the cotton balls. Sprinkle glitter over the glue. Let your tree dry completely before moving it.
Decorate the Tree
Cut out a Christmas tree shape (fairly large) and let the kids use fingerprints for ornaments
Collage Tree
Glitter, buttons, beads, fabric scraps, whatever you can find(works good for wreaths too) Let each child bring a box of little goodies from home to share or put on their own.
Mini Christmas Trees
Thick cardboard, scissors, green paint, colored sequins, glitter glue, (gold) craft glue, ribbon Draw a Christmas tree or trace around our template. Cut out two trees from the cardboard. Draw a line up the middle of the first tree. Cut a slit, approximately the width of the cardboard, approx half way up the first tree, starting from the BOTTOM. Draw a line down the middle of the second tree, and this time cut a similar slit but from the
TOP. Slide the two trees together. Paint the Trees green and wait to dry. Using the glitter glue highlight the edges of the panels of the tree. Glue sequins of assorted colors on each panel to look like Christmas decorations. Sequins were only a suggestion, as the
decorating of your tree is entirely up to you. Poke a hole in the top of the tree with a pair of scissors and thread your ribbon through. This will allow you to hang your Christmas tree up.
Lighted Christmas Trees:
needed to make 1:
About 17 baby food jars, same size, same brand. Glue gun (large size), heavy-duty strength glue, 1 strand of small Christmas lights (multi-color, short strand), Christmas garland, Christmas ribbon Glue together (pyramid style) 5 rows of food jars. 2 jars for trunk/base, see below:
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Punch or drill a hole (large enough for Christmas light socket to fit through) in center top of each jar lid. Lids can then be sprayed 1 color (black, green, red, whatever). Place a small snip of garland inside each jar. Put lids on jars, can be glued to be more
secure. Poke a Christmas light through hole in each lid. Glue Christmas ribbon around entire perimeter. Your glass tree can then be plugged in!!
