Christmas craft round-up!
By Veronique Christensen — Monday, December 8th, 2008
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 
- Make Snow Globes
- Make magnified gems
- Make a Holiday amulet
- Make clothes pin angels
- Make holiday pillows for friends
- Sew lavender sachets
- Make garlands from found objects
- Bake a Mazarine pastry
- Make paper heart garlands
- Decorate pine cones
- Make paper snowflakes
- Build a Christmas village or two
- Create Christmas magnets
- Make an indoor game mat
- Write Christmas poems
- Sew a holiday pennant
- Make holiday inspired paper quilts
- Sew a holiday quilt to snuggle under (another easy one is here)
- Make a holiday book
- Make festive votive holders
- Make embroidered pillows
- Make stuffed mice
- Make, and decorate, a pillow
- Make finger puppets
- Make some instruments
- Bake a Mazarine pie
- Make sand snowflakes
- Make some pop-up cards
- Make holiday shakers
- Sculpt people for out Christmas village
- Make a memory box to capture the year gone by
- Make paper cutting ornaments
- Make no-sew scarves
- Make pine cone creatures
- Make pom-pom birds and their nests
- Make a banjo
- Make gifts from wood scraps
- Knit or crochet
- Citrus fruit pomanders
- Make festive jewelry
- Knit a hat
- Make a wishing jar
- Make glittery beaded ornaments
- Make more trees for the Christmas village
- Create a Holiday comic book
- Make a snow man without snow
- Make a paper bead garland
- Make a paper cone advent calendar
- Make paper angels
- Make Fimo clay (or Sculpy) ornaments
- And of course, we’ll also make Danish stars and paper baskets because we always do
Wow! Thanks for the amazing craft ideas…these will keep us busy for awhile:)
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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Nice to have your list all in one easy to find place! I can’t wait to try those snow globes!
I had to chuckle at your post. My daughter still makes paper chains at Christmas and she’s 16!
Peggy
Great! love the list and the cute picture.
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Oh! I love Maggie’s Christmas village! I can’t remember ever seeing anything like it! Not even in dear old Martha’s magazines!
I must try it… one day. Maybe I can borrow some kids or wait for grandchildren… or just do it myself!
Hugs,
Con