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What are some good and easy Christmas crafts to do with your kids using everyday household items?

2006-11-15 07:15:34 · 8 answers · asked by Eileen B 2 in Society & Culture Holidays Christmas

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Card making, baking christmas cookies, decorating pine cones or making a Chrisdingle :D

2006-11-15 07:17:17 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 2 0

Tube-Sock Snowman

Take an old white tube sock. Poor in some beans, rice or popcorn kernels. Tie a rubberband around it. Poor in more beans, but less than the first time. Another rubberband. Poor in more bean, but even less this time. One more rubber band. You should end up with an inch or so at the top and fold that over. What do you have? A snowman! Than you can either sew buttons on it for the face or use markers. Make arms out of pipecleaners or sticks. A scrap piece of material for a scarf and you are good to go.

2006-11-15 15:22:57 · answer #2 · answered by GingerGirl 6 · 0 0

Save the pop-tops off soda cans...get styrofoam/disposable cups, poke a hole in the bottom center. Put three or four pop-tops on a string of yarn, tie it so that the pop-tops are inside the cup, and the yarn is through the hole outside. Cover the cup in tinfoil...and you have a Christmas bell.

Another thing you can do is with the wrapping paper. Cut it into long triangular strips 10 inches long. You can have the strip anywhere from 1/4 inch to 1 inch wide at one end and pointed at the other end. Kind of like the triangles on a backgammon board. Take a toothpick and roll the wide end of the triangle all the way up to the narrow end. Dab a bit of glue on the point to secure it, and you have a bead. Wrapping paper with patterns is especially cool, because it makes really neat, colorful beads. I used to spray my beads with a gloss to make them shiny and string them with plastic beads into a necklace or bracelet.

2006-11-15 15:28:52 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa M 3 · 0 0

Every year my family ( kids, hubby, & this year grandma & pa) make all of our christmas decorations. We make salt dough ornaments. MAke the dough roll it out like cookies then cut out christmas time shapes with cookie cutters. Don't forget to use a tooth pick to make a hole where you want the hanger ot go before you bake! After they bake and cool you paint them washable paints. We use lots of glitter glue to. I also like to take my kids to a local retail store to adpot an angel. We always get one for the elderly. They often get less notice. This is not a craft but it is great to see my kids enjoy shopping for some one else. They get a real sense of what this time of year is about.

2006-11-15 22:39:04 · answer #4 · answered by melissa31011 2 · 0 0

It depends on what Christmas means to you (and them). If you believe in the secular Christmas, Santa Claus and all that then toilet roll middles are good for making such icons - a little red paint, cotton wool and glitter. Stars can be made out of cereal packets and covered in tinfoil. Or you can use fairy liquid bottles and the like to make candle holders or super Santa's. If you believe in the 'Christ' in Christmas and that is where it comes from, then it might be more difficult, but copy a simple carol and decorate with glitter, make the notes out of tinfoil. A crib can be made out of cereal packets and painted. Animals can be made out of pipe cleaners, plasticine, clay etc. Let them use their imagination - they will do well!

2006-11-15 15:29:59 · answer #5 · answered by dcfingringhoe 2 · 0 0

Get some brown construction paper have them trace their shoe and their hands the shoe part becomes the reindeer head and the hands the antlers and have them decorate it. Trace a whole bunch of their hands in red and green paper and make a wreath.Homemade cards are fun.

2006-11-15 16:20:53 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ to ...... 5 · 0 0

Christmas Cards, You can make ordiments out of flour and water and something else.

2006-11-15 15:18:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

paper chains, popcorn strings, construction paper cutouts, snowflakes, snow globes, cookies, painting pine cones

2006-11-15 15:21:01 · answer #8 · answered by Jenn ♥Cadence Jade's mum♥ 7 · 0 0

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