Christmas craft round-up!

It's taken me a little while to get here, but I'm finally starting to feel that familiar excitement at the holiday season. Maggie asked for a Christmas craft she could do yesterday and I drew a big old blank. The best I could do was to suggest a paper chain garland. The good news is that she decided she could work with that and we now have cheery green and red garland that's about twenty feet long as of this writing. Bjørn got busy with twisting green and red pipe -cleaners, so we also have a number of candy canes hanging about now, too.

Knowing that this is just the start of it all, so I figured I'd do myself a favor & gather our crafts from the past few years to find projects I could recycle and repackage for the Holidays this year. Hope you find this list helpful, too!

I'm extra pleased that the majority of these projects use recycled or found objects -- here's to a happy, and eco-aware, holiday season :-)

1. Make  Snow Globes
2. Make magnified gems
3. Make a Holiday amulet
4. Make clothes pin angels
5. Make holiday pillows for friends
6. Sew lavender sachets
7. Make garlands from found objects
8. Bake a Mazarine pie
9. Make paper heart garlands
10. Decorate pine cones
11. Make paper snowflakes
12. Build a Christmas village
13. Create Christmas magnets
14. Make an indoor game mat
15. Write Christmas poems
16. Sew a holiday pennant
17. Make holiday inspired paper quilts
18. Sew a holiday quilt to snuggle under (I've another easy one is here)
19. Make a holiday book
20. Make festive votive holders
21. Make embroidered pillows
22. Make stuffed mice
23. Make, and decorate, a pillow
24. Make finger puppets
25. Make some instruments
    
26. Make sand snowflakes
27. Make some pop-up cards
28. Make holiday shakers
29. Sculpt people for out Christmas village
30. Make a memory box to capture the year gone by
    
31. Make paper cutting ornaments
32. Make no-sew scarves
33. Make pine cone creatures
34. Make pom-pom birds and their nests
35. Make a banjo
36. Make gifts from wood scraps
37. Knit or crochet
    
38. Make festive jewelry
39. Knit a hat
40. Make a wishing jar
41. Make glittery beaded ornaments
42. Make more trees for the Christmas village
43. Create a Holiday comic book
    
44. Make a snow man without snow
45. Make a paper bead garland
46. And of course, we'll also make Danish stars and paper baskets because we always do :-)

Comments

[Mariah@Playful Learning]

Wow! Thanks for the amazing craft ideas...these will keep us busy for awhile:)

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Great list--great ideas! I added to my Ornament Roundup post today :) http://www.dabbled.org/2008/12/bunches-of-christmas-ornaments-many.html

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[Marie @ Make and Takes]

Nice to have your list all in one easy to find place! I can't wait to try those snow globes!

[Peggy Baron]

I had to chuckle at your post. My daughter still makes paper chains at Christmas and she's 16!

Peggy