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Spend a Chilly Wintry Holiday Afternoon with Some Christmas Crafts
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Nov-02-2010
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Some of my happiest recollections of childhood are of spending the Christmas break at my grannies making wonderful gingerbread manikins and Christmas cards to be sent to all and sundry as a token of how I’d grown. Nothing builds a memory faster as a fun activity done together while the snow piles up outside.
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Some of my happiest recollections of childhood are of spending the Christmas break at my grannies making wonderful gingerbread manikins and Christmas cards to be sent to all and sundry as a token of how I’d grown. Nothing builds a memory faster as a fun activity done together while the snow piles up outside.
Keep you children occupied and busy this holiday season especially on days when the weather does not permit an adventure outside with some fun Christmas crafts. Nothing pleases a grandparent more than a handmade token of love from there lovable bundles of joy. So get out the gum and glue or uncover your baking tins and cookie cutters for a wonderful fun activity that will keep the kiddies at it and engrossed.
Christmas crafts can involve a variety of activities all themed Noel. It can include making the star for your Christmas tree as well as the wreath for the homestead door. Ornaments that you hand make for your tree could even become precious as an heirloom to be collected and passed down. In fact somewhere in my Christmas ornament jumble is a crocheted lace angel that my mom made. One of the most fun afternoons I have had in recent times was in making 4 Paper Mache balls each depicting significant moments in my grandchildren’s lives as keepsakes for them this Christmas along with the WII and the Barbie.
The most convenient way to enjoy a Christmas crafts is to buy a pre-made kit from your local hobby store. You can also find interesting kits to make Christmas ornaments and Yule themed presents online. These include easy crafts like fun homemade tree skirts and stockings, Yule themed decorative clothing for your daughter’s doll as well as very complicated grown kits to make whole themed quilts.
Most of these Christmas craft kits are reasonably priced and come with all required paraphernalia, embellishments, instructions for assembly and placement. These kits are also very handy to introduce you children to the basics of engineering while getting their creative juices flowing in an activity that is fun and educational.
If you are not especially organized and still want to enjoy an old fashioned lets get our hands dirty kind of afternoon with the children. Some of the old favorites are to make Christmas cards with a lot of glitter for snow, painting clothespins with egg shell heads into Mrs. Santa and Rudolph look-alikes and the ubiquitous Christmas wreath made out of daddy’s pipe cleaner. All you need to keep handy as craft supplies are some scissors, paint, glue and cardboard.
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