Comments on: Children crafts for Christmas?

By: We Love Ava!

We Love Ava! — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:09:59 +0000

You can collect the small milk containers (school sized) and make gingerbread houses using sugar icing to hold it together and real candies and fruits for the decorations and windows. The icing makes for some great snow around the house too! When my son did this in school they secured it to a Styrofoam plate.
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By: snowwillow20

snowwillow20 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:24:59 +0000

I made hand prints with finger paint on some nice paper and put it in a frame for the great grandparents.
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By: Baby Boy Due 1/20/09!

Baby Boy Due 1/20/09! — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:17:59 +0000

If you have a Michael's Craft store near you they have TONS of stuff you can do with kids. I went there last year and at the time my step daughter was only 2, but she loved helping me glue things, color things, etc. They are rather inexpensive also. You can never go wrong with buying a wooden ornament and have them paint it themselves.
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By: kmwcharfauros

kmwcharfauros — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:30:59 +0000

Wow, there are tons we have done. There are of course ornaments that you can do. We’ve done the foam kits that you find at crafts stores. Another year we did ornaments using seashells, just painting/decorating them and gluing ribbon so it could hang. My favorite thing is to do crafts as presents for the grandparents. One year we did a basket of homemade soaps, candles, and spa things for the grandmas. Also t-shirts and keychains for the papas.

I definitely recommend checking out your library for childrens crafts books, and the local craft store for kits and ideas. There is so much you can do.
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By: The Vet Tech

The Vet Tech — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:44:59 +0000

you can get plaster some string and jello jiggler molds or cookie cutter and make ornaments. mix the plaster pour it into a mold or cookie cutter place the string to where it will dry into the plaster.bake or let it harden(whichever the plaster you get says) then paint and hang!
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By: levismom7

levismom7 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:36:59 +0000

i always love to get christmas color paints & get foam plates…..put their hand print on them…with their names…hole punch a hole in the top & string them together to hang up or even as gifts.

oh and you can decorate the plates too…
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