Christmas Crafts to make with kids

[vanillabean]

Does anyone have ideas for christmas crafts to make with kids? I know DS would love to make some stuff, but I am not very creative.

[melbryan]

I am going down to my DS1;s daycare and making bon bons. Some chirssy paper, ribbon and lollies and balloons. We will decorate a card too. Last year I photocopied a calndar and got each child to bring in a family photo and they made a present for their parents we decorated it with stickers and coloured it in.
I usually do chrissy cookies wrap them in cellophane and hang them from the tree with a card, as a extra gift if someone misses out, or I have forgotton and they have got us something.

[Callian]

I found this on the internet last night and going to give it a go with my kids.
Salt dough ornaments
4 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
1 - 1 1/2 cups of hot water

holiday cookie cutters
decorations - glitter, paint, beads, etc
glue

Make a dough with above ingredients, roll out and cut shapes out with cookie cutters.
Use a toothpick to make a hole for hanging, being sure to make the hole a little larger than you will want as they tend to close when baking.
Microwave a plate of your ornaments for 2 to 4 mins, depending on how many you have on each plate and the size of your microwave. Increase cooking by 2min increments until dough appears fairly dry. Let cool.
Now for the fun bit.......go wild and decorate.

Cheers
Janine

[Seekrit]

trace his hand HEAPS on green paper, cut them out and glue them in a circle like a wreath

[BlueGin]

Seekrit, that is the sweetest idea ever! I'll have to keep that in mind for next Christmas

I second the bon bon idea, start saving toilet rolls from now, as little hands tend to squish a bit hard when working on their creative projects I find

A lovely and enjoyably messy craft is to use PVA to draw snowflake shapes (on taut gladwrap works well) and then either leave them plain or sprinkle glitter on them. When they are dry and clear, peel them off and they self adhere to clean windows beautifully! (You can also make snowflakes from folding paper lots of times and cutting bits and pieces from them, rubbish explanation but I hope you get it )

Have fun!

[Seekrit]

trace one foot and both hands.. stick the hands at the toe end of the foot with fingers on an angle outwards.. *its meant to be reindeers*
then let him run a muck with glitter, stickers, paint anything really

FANTASTIC IDEA!!
Thank you!!!!