Days 22-24 of 25 Christmas Crafts

So, I was not feeling well, and did not get the other crafts posted last week. So, I am putting them all in one post!

Craft 22 was making foam picture ornaments. I sort of cheated on this one, I bought the package from Oriental Trading. Then printed out some pictures of the kids and had them make the ornaments. I can't show too many pictures of these because they are being used as gifts. But here is a picture of the ornaments.

 Craft 23 was making placemats for Santa's cookies. This can be a quick and easy activity or could involve more work. Since I wasn't feeling well, we did the really easy route, we coloured them. I basically just drew 2 circles on a piece of paper, one smaller than the other. In the bigger circle I wrote "Cookies for Santa" and the smaller was "Milk for Santa". I also drew one big carrot on one of the placemats and wrote "Carrot for Rudolph" and on the other placemat I did 8 small carrots and wrote "Carrots for the reindeer". (I had one placemat for each child!). Then, I let them colour! 

 Once they were done colouring we covered the paper with packing tape, so we can lay out the cookies, milk and carrots right on top! 

Craft 24 is bird feeders. We thought that it would be nice to make a present for the neighbourhood birds. 

First I collected everything we needed, an empty toilet paper roll (with all the bits peeled off), a bowl of peanut butter and spoon, a plate filled with bird seed, and string. I also used the hole punch to punch holes in the toilet paper roll. 

 The kids strung the string through the toilet paper roll, and then we tied it, so we can hang it from the tree. Then we covered the toilet paper roll with peanut butter.

Once it was all coated, we laid it down on the plate full of bird seed. The kids rolled it, and put the bird seed on it, until it was covered!

Then, you can hang it in the tree! 

Day 19 of 25 Days of Christmas Crafts

Today we did another handprint craft, but Santa this time. 

First I collected everything that we needed to do the craft, red and white paper, markers, glue, googly eyes, and cotton balls. I did cut out a hat and coat shape from the red paper. 

Then we traced out the kids hands, and set to work! 

 The kids decorated the hat with the cotton balls.

 Then we glued on the googly eyes. 

 And then glued on the shirt. Then the kids coloured their santa! 

Day 15 of 25 Christmas Crafts

Today, I started out with one basic craft idea, and then it morphed into something else. So, the first picture doesn't have everything we used, but I will add what else we put into it! 

We were making basic thumb print reindeer, but, then the idea morphed into the 8, sorry 9 reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh! 

First I got out some finger painting paper, brown paint, a paint brush, and some markers. (not pictured is the sleigh I cut out of red paper, and the santa sticker, and glue). 

 I did the kids thumb prints with brown paint first- and let those dry. I did 2 thumb prints per reindeer- one for the head and one for the body. 

Then we stuck on the Santa sticker- on the sleigh. And coloured that! 

 Then, once the thumb prints were dry, we drew antlers, faces, feet and tails on each reindeer, and coloured it. 

 Then we glued the sleigh onto the reindeer paper. And then we had Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen---oh yeah, and most important- Rudolph, pulling Santa's sleigh!