Holiday Crafts to do with your kids....

So the Festive season is upon us.. and a friend asked me for some easy -ish craft ideas that she could do with her son.. and as I started to e-mail her I realized.. I should stick this on my blog :)

So here are a few simple crafting idea's to do with your kids ...

1.) Cut out felt in the shape of Christmas trees. or snow flakes . then mount it to stiff paper or an old card.. then let your child drizzle glue all over the tree then put some glitter into a shaker and then shake glitter all over the tree knock off the excess... then cut out the tree... you can make your tree any size, smaller ones can go inside a Christmas card.. frame larger ones as gifts...

2.)hand print Christmas trees.. get a small is.. 8x10 canvas from the dollar store or Micheals .. and paint your childs hands (palm) green then print them.. three across along the bottom.. then two on top and then a third on top to make a TREE shape ..fingers down ward to be the "branches" or leaves" then print a star on the top.. and a brown stem.. and your done.. so simple

3.) last year I printed the kids hands about 30 times (green paint on palm) on a nice thicker paper i think we used scrap book paper.. and then cut out each hand print.. then arranged them in a circle to make a hand print wreath ...then using their thumbs printed red "berries" and put those all over the wreath. hand print red and green wrapping paper... palms painted red or green and then hand stamp the paper .. gives it a home made look and everyone loves this stuff ..

4.) Mr.K also really liked making bracelets for my sister this year... she loves them.. I bought some nice glass beads and other assorted beads.. nice ones not cheap plastic ones .. and then let him string them on a wire... then I finished the ends with nice clasps.. easy to do with a pair of needle nose pliers... then I took pictures of him making them and sent the picture along with the bracelet...

5.)Mr.K Loved to make the jar candle votive.. you simply rip up some tissue paper, then coat the out side of a jar or a glass with white glue slightly watered down... then stick the tissue up all over the jar.. then coat it with your glue again.. let it dry and pop in a tea light.. mrK also liked sticking stickers to the jar..then tie a festive bow around the tip or bottom and your done.. they turned out well and he loved doing them.. I've got a huge costco sized pickle jar that is going to get this treatment done to it.. and I have a couple packs of battery powered Christmas lights that are going to go inside.. i think it will be a nice easy addition to our holiday decor :)

6.) snow flakes... I've googled snow flake templates and have found 100's of them.. my kids play room is now decorated in snow flakes :)

7.) honey comb (cereal) snow flakes.... get out your glue and a box of honey comb cereal and glue together to make unique snow flake shapes.. then spray paint or hand paint them white or blue and then cover with glitter ... hand with fishing line and marvel at your creativeness....

8.) Count down to Santa... make a Santa head. .then add a long oval sheet of paper for his beard.. mark it with the count down of 24 (start at the bottom 24 and work way up to 1) then as you do your count down you snip off Santa's beard... So cute and simple

9.) apple candles .. using an apple corer cut out the shape of a tea light, then inset your tea light and enjoy super simple and looks so festive...