Welcome to an Advent Adventure!
Below you will find a list
of what the girls and I are
making each day until Christmas Day.
Maybe you can find some crafts
you can make, too!
There aren't directions to some
of the crafts, but maybe you have your own
directions for those!
We aren't doing any on the weekends.
Hope you can get some ideas here!
Also, we have more homemade gift
ideas in our recipe section!
- Hand Felt Ornaments
All you need for this craft is some felt,
paint, and ribbon to hang it, and glue.
I put some acrylic paint on each
girl's hands, and had them press their hands
onto the piece of felt. After it dried,
I cut around the edge of each hand,
and glued the pieces together
(it helps to cut one out and then use
that as the pattern for cutting out
the other hand), making sure
to glue the ribbon in between
the layers as I glued them together.
You can put glitter or
anything else you want to embellish.
Make sure to date and write
the name of the child on the ornament.
This is something good to do
every year as a keepsake. - Bell Wreaths
For this we took some wire hangers
and wire cutters
and cut off the hooked part
and then cutting the hanger in half.
We 'strung' 30 5/8-inch bells on each half,
and then I took a needle-nosed
pliers and twisted the ends together,
leaving some of the wire to form a hook
which is to go around a doorknob
or tree limb. Then we tied some
1-inch ribbon onto the hook to make a bow.
- Card Holder
For this we are taking an old yardstick
and some clothes pins, gold bulletin board tacks,
some wood glue, and paint.
First take the clothespins and
figure out how far apart they should be.
They will be sticking out on both
sides of the yardstick.
Then take the clothespin, put a dot of wood
glue on one of the clothespins
and push a tack through it to hold it there.
Do that with each clothespin until
you have covered the yardstick.
You should have a yardstick that
when you hold it up and down
you should see clothespins sticking out
of each side. Then let the kids paint it.
We are taking toothpicks to make dots and lines
for designs to make it festive.
Hang it up and you have a place to hang
all of those cards you will be getting! - Candy Holders
For this all you do is cut out
a rectangle shape of gift wrap
and fold it in half the long way,
short end to short end.
Tape across one of the ends.
Fill it with candy, and tape the other end,
but taping it so it is
going in the other direction.
As an example, I have seen sour cream
come in a package shaped
like this in some restaurants.
- Oatmeal Soap
For the soap we have a soap making
kit I bought through the mail from
Martha Stewart's mail order catalog.
- Bird Feeders
We are making these by scooping out an orange
after cutting it in half.
Then we will mix peanut butter with bird seed
and put it in the orange half.
Set it out for the birds, or
make it hangable to hang from a tree.
- Shrink Art Gift Tags
We are tracing Christmas trees and light bulbs
onto the shrink art plastic using a permanent
marker.
Bake it according to directions,
and paint them on the back with
acrylic paint. Make sure to paper punch
the top of it before shrinking it! - Make Some Wrapping Paper
- Rock Candy
- Miracle Milk Bath
For this all you do is mix
2 Cups Salt
2 Cups baking soda
2 cups nonfat dry milk.
Each batch makes 6 cups of Milk Bath.
Put some in a pretty bag that you tie
some sort of cellaphane, or in
Gladware containers, something to keep it airtight.
You are to put in 1 cup of mix
to your bath water. - Candy Topiary
This is just a matter of taking
candy and gluing them together
to make a topiary. The only thing is,
is to use wrapped candy. - Napkin Holders
This year we are painting empty toilet paper
rolls and will glue on some pretty
decoration. - Reindeer Food
For this, mix together some corn
(squirrel corn from a cob, not from a can or frozen)
bird seed and glitter in a small brown
paper sack. On Christmas Eve you are supposed
to have the kids dump this out
to feed Santa's reindeer.
The glitter is so the reindeer can find it. - Place Cards for Christmas table
- Make a Small Gift for the Guests at the Christmas Table
