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Tin Can Lantern
Safety First! Please exercise caution when making any craft projects. Some of the items used may not be suitable for all children to operate. The best cans for tea candles (short stuffy white ones) are the salmon and tuna cans. … [continue reading]
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Styrofoam Ornament
Take a Styrofoam vegetable tray, and use a cookie cutter to press out a shape. Decorate with sequins, glitter, etc. Punch a hole on top, and put a string through to hang it up.
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Walnut Strawberries
You start with a walnut. Then you paint it shiny red. Then you glue tiny pearls all over it like strawberries have those marks seeds. I can’t remember how you make the stem. The end result is really pretty. For … [continue reading]
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Reindeer Candy Canes
Really easy, you will need: small wiggly eyes, brown chenille sticks and candy canes. Use about a half of a piece of chenille stick for the antlers, and glue the wiggly eyes on for a reindeer candy cane. *Ideal for … [continue reading]
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Handprint Ornament
Use red and green felt. Trace handprint on a piece of card stock and then cut out red and green handprints. Then glue a red handprint back to back to a green handprint, with a loop of yarn in the … [continue reading]
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Glitter Balls
Adult supervision is a must for this one; glitter can be dangerous around little eyes and faces. (Anyone got any substitutes?) Fill a few small paper bags with different colors of glitter. (A little glitter goes a long way.) Roll … [continue reading]
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Santa Pine Cone
Gather pine cones. Supply cotton or cotton balls, chenille sticks (pipe cleaners), and red, black and white felt scraps, and googly eyes. The bottom of the cone is the top of Santa’s head. The kids can glue red triangles to … [continue reading]
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Hammered Silver Ornaments
Cut Ornament shapes (bells, balls, trees, stars, squares, whatever) out of old pie tins or other assorted “disposable” heavy aluminum foil baking pieces that you didn’t dispose of. You could also use tin ashtrays. Show the kids how to “draw” … [continue reading]
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Dipped Candles
For Dipped Candles you will need: paraffin wax empty can about 24″ of candle wick saucepan WARNING: An adult must help with this project. Paraffin wax catches fire easily if it gets too hot. Drips of hot wax can cause … [continue reading]
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Hansel & Gretel’s Candy House
These houses look just like gingerbread houses, but are not as hard to make. They brighten up any deep winter day! graham crackers, six squares for each house cardboard beverage cartons, 1/2 pint size, wash & dried (milk, juice,etc.) frosting … [continue reading]
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