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Christmas Craft Ideas for Yourself and Your Children!

If it is winter time and your child has been asked to make some winter projects and therefore there are many wonderful possibilities for basic winter art projects and crafts such as cutting out snowflakes or drawing a Santa Claus but in addition there are some other fun things and activities to be done.

You can pose the idea of interesting arts and crafts to your children and you shall really be surprised at the creative ideas of your children.

Some fun ideas for winter crafts whereby you can use organized supplies such as:

1. Cotton is very useful in making some great winter art projects and if these cotton balls are a bit colder they can even look like mini snowballs. Your child can also draw wonderful winter scenery and then rip them, fluff them and glue them at the places where snow has to be shown.

2. Winter is always incomplete without marshmallows. Marshmallows is added treats in hot chocolate but can also be used for winter crafts. Your kids can take three big marshmallows and then stack them on top of each other so as to make a mini and tasty snowman. Toothpicks can also be used to hold the marshmallows together and also as the arms. Mini marshmallows can be a great fun when snowballs are attached to winter collages.

3. Plaster of Paris is also used in many great ways and not just for winter crafts and one of such ways is to use it to make “footprints in the snow.” For this, you can fill a box lid with negligible item such as Plaster of Paris. When it settles and dries you can make different footprints in the snow or could be used as the side of fist to look like a baby’s footprints.

4. Birds that stay in place all through winter needs food and during winter children can make a pine cone bird feeder. So you need to cover a pine cone in peanut butter and dip it in the bird seed and then tie a bit of string to one of these pine cones and hung it up on the tree outside.

5. You can also use glitter to add so that any basic winter art project looks even more fancy and beautiful.

My kids love doing holiday crafts, and I’m sure yours will too!  It has always been challenging to find age-appropriate crafts that all of the children will enjoy making.

My children each have a few years between them, so we have amassed quite a collection of crafts and craft ideas.  Here are a few MORE suggestions you can use.

Consider it an early Christmas gift from me to you!

Bead garlands are one of my all-time favorite crafts.  They are fun to make, extremely colorful, and great for children of all ages.  You will need some string or plastic cord, a whole lot of beads, some scissors, and some glue.

Cut the string or cord to the desired length, and thread it through the first bead.  Tie a knot around that bead, and add some glue to keep it secure.  Now add the rest of your beads.  When you reach the end, tie the string off on the last bead and add some more glue.  Now that was fun, wasn’t it?

Pine cone ornaments have also become classics in our Christmas craft repertoire.  They are appropriate for children of any age, and keep very well in storage.  You will need to spend some time collecting the pine cones.

We collect them when we are out walking the dog.  We simply paint them with silver or gold paint, and cover them with glitter.  Let them dry somewhere safe, and tie them to your tree with a piece of ribbon.  Are you getting in the holiday spirit, yet?

Bell ornaments are also a lot of fun to make, and they will last for years to come.  We feel that small terra cotta pots are the best to use.  Have the children paint the pot green, and allow it to dry.  Once the pot is completely dry, attach fake jewels or beads to it with glitter glue.

Then thread a small bell with some ribbon, and pull the ribbon up through the hole in the pot.  Tie a knot in the ribbon so the bell stays secure, and add any other final touches you might like.  I am sure your kids will love these crafts as much as mine do!  Have a wonderful holiday, all!

Don’t get me wrong, I come up with craft ideas for my daughter and we have a lot of fun with them, but she seems to have more fun creating her own craft ideas.

A few years back I went to our local good will store and bought a ton of craft supplies for very little money. I bought beads, pipe cleaners, glitter, stickers, feathers, yarn, lace, buttons, and just a ton of crafty type stuff.  I put it all in a big box with some glue and glue sticks and thus my daughters crafting box came into existence.

We have since added stickers, markers, cotton balls, sequins, and other stuff we find.

I bought a big tablet of thick paper and thus her “scrapbook” came into existence.  She loves to get it out and create different pages of ideas and creations.  She cuts pictures out of magazines and adds them to it as well.

Sometimes she just makes her own craft projects out of the materials instead of doing her “scrapbooking” and she has a great time.  The only drawback to her scrapbooking is sometimes she uses a lot of glue and we have to wait for it to dry before she can turn the page and move on to her next crafting creation.

So don’t always think structured when it comes to craft ideas for younger children.  You and they will probably have a lot more fun if you let their imagination rule the project.

After all it is their creation so there is no wrong or right to it.  They are less likely to become frustrated because they can’t make their creations look just like they are suppose to as well.

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