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Nobody loves the holiday season more than children so why not give them their own tasks of making Christmas decorations to decorate your home? Kids will be both excited and proud to display their masterpieces.
Santa’s Beard Advent Calender
(have completed before December 1st)
What you’ll need:
Tracing paper
Red poster board
Crayons, markers or colored pencils
Cotton balls
Glue
Glitter or other decorations
Using either a clip art program or other picture, draw or trace a picture of Santa’s face only onto the tracing paper. Color it appropriately and cut it out to glue down on to the poster board. Use glitter or other decorations to decorate the red poster board to your liking. Display the Santa faces in an easy to reach location. Each day of the month, beginning on December 1st glue one cotton ball onto Santa’s beard. By Christmas your Santa will have a full fluffy white beard!
Styrofoam Ornaments
What you’ll need:
Styrofoam balls of assorted sizes
Thin ribbon – color of your choice
Short straight pins
Glitter glue
Paint brushes
Tooth picks
Use the paint brushes to paint the styrofoam balls with glitter glue. Apply it heavily and let dry before adding a second coat. In order to paint the entire ball at once, stick 3 tooth picks into the bottom of it in a tripod fashion. When the ball is dry, cut ribbon and fold it in half, fasten the ends to the ball with a straight pin. For extra strength, dip the pin into glue before inserting into the ball.
Christmas Card Pictures
What you’ll need:
Clean styrofoam trays such as those packaged meats come in
Glitter
Glue
Scissors
Old Christmas cards
Other decorative items such as sequins or ribbons
Tear off the fronts of old Christmas cards and cut out the pictures in interesting shapes. Glue the pictures onto the styrofoam tray. Use glue, glitter, ribbons, and sequins to decorate the rest of the tray. Glue a ribbon on the back at each corner of the tray to use as a hangar.
Stockings
What you’ll need:
Red, green and white construction paper or felt
Glue
Cotton balls
Glitter
Stickers (if using paper)
Markers
Other decorative items such as sequins or ribbons
Cut stocking shapes out of red paper or felt. Add green or white “toes”and “heels” from the other paper or felt. Glue the cotton balls across the top of the stockings for “fur”. Decorate the stockings with other materials and use markers to write family members' names on them. Small stockings can have a hole punched in them with a ribbon threaded through to hang them on a tree. Larger stockings can be taped onto walls, cupboard doors or wherever else you want to hang them. You can even decorate both sides of the stockings and using a long ribbon, hang them from the ceiling.
Pine Cone Ornaments
What you’ll need:
Pine Cones
Pipe cleaners
Glue
Glitter
Paper plates
Bowls
Fill bowls or paper plates with glitter. Squirt glue all over another paper plate, and roll the pine cones through it. Then roll the pine cones through the glitter. When they are dry, use pipe cleaners to twist around the pine cone end and make an ornament hanger.
Simple ornaments and decorations are easy for kids to make. Just look around your house and you will find all kinds of materials to use in these projects and for more you come up with yourself!
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