kids craft weekly – a giveaway
Amber at Kids craft weekly is running the card Swap at Kids Craft Weekly – sign-ups close on November 18 – All the details are in the latest Christmas Card newsletter.
Amber has also just published a Christmas Craft PDF (on sale for $5). If you would like to win one of 5 then leave a comment about your favourite christmas/holiday season family craft activity.
Amber has put together a fabulous little booklet – available as a PDF download which you can then print out. Great idea! and some fantastic ideas for a kids crafty Christmas inside.
The five chapters: Advent, cards, decorations, gift tags and games. Some of my favourite projects include the mini advent envelopes decorated with fun stamps. Instructions for making origami cups (my kids love these). The scouring pad tree decorations are innovative and simple. None of the projects are out of the range of kids making – I love that the projects are not too sophisticated or fussy – perfect for kids to do themselves or with minimal supervision.
[thanks so much for your great ideas - winners have been contacted - thank you so much for your entries]
November 15th, 2008 at 7:37 am
We have enjoyed making holiday placemats for years. The whole family sits down together at the table and we all fun designing them. Then we can enjoy them for the whole season!
November 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Don’t know if this is a CRAFT, but our grands like to decorate a tree for the wild animals in the woods adjoining their property. They string popcorn and cranberries, use cookie cutters to cut out stars from stale bread, spread peanut butter on pinecones, hang oranges and apples, and more. This summer a doe wandered close enough to the back of their house for our DGDs to see her fawn suckle. Perfect payback!
November 15th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Definitely making gingerbread houses. Not only are they beautiful, but they smell wonderful!
November 15th, 2008 at 10:51 am
When my husband and I first got married, we didn’t have Christmas decorations and couldn’t afford to buy a lot. Instead, we got out a huge pile of construction paper, scissors, and glue, and made decorations ourselves. Every night after work, we’d sit on the couch and create Santas, candy canes, toy soldiers, and even paper Christmas lights. After a few weeks, we had a very festive apartment! We’ve been married for 5 years, and even though we have now accumulated a lot of store-bought decorations, we keep our handmade project up and make new construction paper scenes every year.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:14 am
My all time favorite family friendly Christmas craft activity is popping popcorn and threading it to use as a garland for the traditional tree. Inevitably, the kids and I begin to get creative and find other items (lifesaver candies, sour gummi rings, tubular noodles, et cetera) to add to the garland for color and interest!!
The tubular noodles (???) can be decorated if you wish…glitter, markers, stickers, anything goes!!!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
We like making anything with homemade clay dough here. The kids love to get their hands in all sorts of squishy dough then painting it is even more fun.
We also like making gingerbread houses. Last year we made them out of rice krispie squares.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
decorating cookies is my favorite, but that really isn’t a craft. making ornaments with my kiddos is always fun–glue, glitter, paint, wood, paper, fabric. a little nirvana.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Dying eggs! :) I dye them for various holidays. At Christmas I draw little trees, snowmen, stockings and stars on with white crayon. Then I dye the eggs in nice holiday colors.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Making ornaments. I try to pick a new ornament design each year and make one for all the families I know.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
paper snowflakes are my favorite…i cant wait until my kids are old enough to make them with me.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
We love making place cards for everyone for Christmas dinner. My kids make them wackier every year!
November 15th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
stringing popcorn and cranberries while watching (and singing along with) White Christmas.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Our favourite activity is making cards and stamping paper craft decorations which we sometimes draw and cut out with scissors, add glitter and glue, and other embellishements. Love to make individual cards and one for Santa too.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am
We make homemade Girl Scout tagalongs each year and give them as gifts. So out comes the double boiler and bottle sterilizer tongs along with a ton of ritz crackers, peanut butter and almond bark!
November 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
My daughter always gets crafty with teacher gifts (we give bookstore gift cards, too) Last year we made home-made Vanilla and her decorated labels were something. Another year she sewed draft blockers; another year muslin balsam sachets that she painted trees on. This year…. she’d (we’d!) better get moving! She is in 6th grade, so the craft projects have gotten increasingly impressive — and fun for me!– as she has gotten older.