Christmas Craft Ideas

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Q: Craft ideas for Christmas gifts. Simple please.?


A: Pillows

Q: i need christmas crafts ideas please?
can any one give me some cute and simple craft ideas (and directions) thanks :) from ages 5-13

A: ornaments (ones where you can insert a pic is very cute) make them out of clay and bake, wreaths-use grape vines and wind and twist around then add whatever to decorate it with crafters wire, personalized stockings, table scapes (collecting pinecones and what not), homemade candles- in a double boiler (or a metal bowl inside a same size pot of water) melt wax. Get plastic cups and fill with ice and a whic down the center. Then poor melted wax in the cup till it hardens.

Q: Does anyone have any craft ideas for a toddler for christmas?


A: Yes, you can strand together some colored contact paper using Elmer's glue.. to put as a garland around your tree.. or you can make ornaments out of upside down paper cups. Have your child paint or color them, then hang them up with a string. You could also do a gingerbread house. Best Wishes!

Q: Does anyone have a christmas placemat idea for church?
I'm looking for a christmas placemat craft idea for church. Such as using the hands to paint or anything like that. We will be using the placemats for a senior breakfast. Anything other than using old christmas cards, I have that one. Maybe something about the birth of Christ, angels, pictures and scriptures, etc. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, vmitch

A: Go to Salvation Army or some such place, buy a white, light blue, or creme placemat (if you know how to make them, just buy material and sew. Find a Christmas fabric with a manger scene, cut out the parts you like and using iron fabric attached those parts to the placemat. You could also trim with gold or silver rick-rack tape. You could also trace pictures from coloring books and fabric paint them. I guess a lot depends on how many you need and if this a group effort or you are doing it alone. If it's a group it would be a great project for Sunday School classes. Whatever you do, I know the breakfast will be a great success and the seniors will really enjoy it. You could have a door prize for the place mat of their choice.

Q: My sisters Broke Alot of the Christmas oniments...Have any ideas to make craft ones?
My sisters Broke Alot of the Christmas oniments...Have any ideas to make craft ones?Lie using stuff you could find in a regular house?

A: flour , water, salt, and pepper, cut to shape and bake. gingerbread cookies cut to shape make good ones also, or you can find inexpensive ornaments a the thrift stores.

Q: Christmas craft...?
I need some nice christmas crafts that I can sell to make a little bit of extra money. If you have any ideas please tell me, or if you know of a good website pease tell me this also. ~ They need to be inexpensive.~

A: I am giving you the same answer I just used for the same question for someone else. Some suggestions: - snowflakes made out of paper. -I take light bulbs and paint them to look like characters such as santa or reindeer. The metal part is the top, so I paint the glass with paint to replicate whatever I feel like painting. Then I gluegun a ribbon to it and hang it on my tree or around my house. for an example: http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/treeorn... - popcorn or cranberry garlands: thread popcorn or cranberry on string and hang around the house - you can go to a craft store and buy a wreath, then go outside and collect twigs or branches off evergreens, and decorate the wreath with the branches and twigs, and add christmas balls then hang it on your door. - my fave for my nieces is to make reindeer. youll need a candy cane leave the plastic wrapping on ( make sure it is the tight wrapped plastic and not a candy cane in a plastic bag), ribbon for hanging, glue gun, tiny pom pom for the nose ( you can get it at the craft store or a dollar store), 2 little wiggly eyes or drawn and cut out eyes, and brown pipe cleaners. make antlers out of pipe cleaners, wrap them around the candy cane on the curve and glue them. Add two wiggle eyes and a pom-pom nose. glue or tie the ribbon on your reinderr to hang on the tree or around the house then you're done! Hope all of this helps, I do these every year! Merry Christmas!

Q: Craft Gift Ideas? For christmas?
This is what i have thought i could make for my friend.. -fotoframe -jewellery box -friendship bracelet -dream catcher -bathsalts That is the sort of things I have MADE before. Keeping on that sort of subject, do you know what else I can make? Please help! 10 points to the first good idea!

A: You know what is fun? Three things I have made for friends that they always use and still have after several years: 1 is a sister healing bracelet. Simple to make- I just made it up anyway. But use some tigertail or silk or linen thread and make a simple strung bracelet using some drilled stones and glass beads and a few charms that you know she/he will like and when it is all done, make one for you that is similar- so there is a connection between you two for always. Then hold it in your hand and think about your friend and how blessed you are to have her/him and give thanks for them. Then make a little card to say why you made it for them and suggest it offers them a conenciton to you and it will help them through their busy days, etc. 2) Eye pillows that you can make with uncooked rice or lentils- sew any piece of fabric made of cotton you think they will like into a little rectangle that would fit across their eye. Leave one end open, and then go to your rice- about 2 cups of rice and put it in a bowl and add essential oils and dried herbs or flowers such as lavender and calendula or chamomile, then mix it up and let it set to let the oils dry a bit on the rice. When you think it is ready, place in the pillow, and then sew it shut and tie a little tag on it telling them to place it over their eyes when they have a tension headache or when they need a little break. These work great to be heated in the microwave for a moment or frozen as well. 3. Crochet a scarf- fast, colorful and warm and attractive, it seems people wear scarves year round now as an accessory. Hope these help. Namaste, Joni

Q: POLL: Craft Gift Ideas? For christmas?
This is what i have thought i could make for my friend.. -fotoframe -jewellery box -friendship bracelet -dream catcher -bathsalts That is the sort of things I have MADE before. Keeping on that sort of subject, do you know what else I can make? Please help! 10 points to the first good idea!

A: Friendship bracelet Cookies Scrapbook I'll be back if i think of something else . . .

Q: I need crafts ideas for christmas!?
I want to make my family crafts for christmas-but im out of ideas! HELP!

A: Jewelry: 1. Beads or colored ditalilni pasta strung on elastic thread for bracelets. You can add fasteners or not. 2. Quarter-sized rounds of heavy or water-color paper glued to earring backs. Before gluing, decorate the rounds with art (colored pens, water colors, even stickers), then spray lightly with a fixative such as Krylon Matte Finish or Crystal Clear Glaze. 3. Papier-mache, cinnamon-dough, or salt-dough "objects" glued to pin backs. If you use salt dough, remember that it is relatively heavy, so press it as thin as you can and retain the shape. Use tiny cookie cutters, cookie molds, household objects, whatever you like for patterns. Spray with fixative before gluing. Pompoms: First make the pompoms, then use them to make: 1. Luggage IDs (two pompoms with a chenille stick to fasten them to luggage or a crocheted chain to tie them to luggage) 2. Book marks (a large and a small pompom with a crocheted chain between them) 3. Key-ring identifiers (Fasten a pompom to a key ring to give a woman--it makes keys easy to find by feel in a large purse). 4. Pins or earrings in school colors. 5. Big ones for a toss game for small kids (use recycled yogurt-drink containers with the tops cut off for smaller pompoms, write a point value on the side with durable marker, and fasten 3 or 6 together; use soda bottles or even detergent bottles for larger pompoms) Photos: It's easy if you have access to even simple photo software to create with photos: 1. Print on transfer paper, then iron onto tee-shirts, aprons, vests, book covers, quilt squares, pillow cases, any fabric. You can do one or any number (for a different look). 2. Create a collage of photos and print and frame the page. 3. Print photos for scrapbook pages. 4. Crop and enlarge a favorite photo, then have it printed at a print shop into poster size. 5. And then there are mouse pads, coffee mugs, and so on.

Q: What are websites with DIY crafts/decorating ideas?
I'm looking for good ideas for Christmas crafts, but also for year-round decorations that I can make myself. :) Do you know of any websites where I can find ideas?

A: The three websites already mentioned will give you many good craft/decorating ideas. Also, the Better Homes & Garden site has many, in many different categories. Try a couple of Google searches with different phrases like, " 'crafts plans', free ", " 'do it yourself ', crafts", "craft ideas", etc. [Remember that how you use the quote marks, makes a big difference in what the search return will be.]

Q: what would be a good craft idea for christmas to do with grandchildren ages 6-11?


A: Here's 101 crafts http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/giftgiving/a/120400a.htm craft projects by age http://familycrafts.about.com/od/craftprojectsbyage/ Christmas crafts http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/christmascrafts/a/103000a.htm coloring pages to print http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/coloringpages/l/blcolorbk.htm 2 more craft sites http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/minisite/christmas-main/ http://www.kids-fun-and-games.com/homemade-christmas-decorations.html These are my best links for crafts for kids.

Q: I need a very cheap idea or craft for some Christmas gifts can anyone help?
I am broke, I mean poor, I cant really afford anything I am behind on bills and it is my 1st Christmas with my boyfriends family I need cheap ideas or crafts that I can do for a family girt for the family... Can anyone help please I am DESPERATE!

A: Crafts tend to be almost as expensive as bought gifts - at least at first (most supplies can be reused later). You could try making felt softies. They require needle, thread, floss and felt. All very cheap. There are tutorials and such on the web as well. You could also try Quilling. Though again, requires some initial investment. Due to my own grad student poverty - my family gets my glorious presence this Christmas and that's it. But they love me so that's all that matters.

Q: I need an idea for a Christmas craft for 3rd graders for a Public school.. they are ages 8-9?
I am the room mother and am haveing trouble thinking of something.. It needs to be inexpensive...

A: Oh, this has to be one of the easiest things to find if you just google it - "cheap holiday crafts", "Cheap Christmas craft", "cheap solstice craft", and a variety of other keywords. I was doing this for a gathering of our own, the other day, and found one I really liked because it was cheap and non-specific to any religion: http://fun.familyeducation.com/slideshow/crafts/48963.html?detoured=1 Have fun!

Q: Need an idea to go with a Christmas craft?
I have a whole lot of green glass mugs and need to keep costs low.

A: Etch them! A small bottle of Armor-Etch from the craft store will cost about $8-10 and will be more than enough for you to etch monograms or other designs on each mug to personalize them for the recipients and they will think you spent a fortune to have it done. The process is extremely simple and kind of fun. In the same section you find the etching creme,you can buy stencils but if you are doing quite a few mugs, try to get the reusable stencils as the others are one-time-use only and are very fragile. You can make your own stencils with Contac paper and a craft knife if you are somewhat artistic and have a steady hand. Once your mugs are personalized, fill them with wrapped Christmas candies such as Hershey Kisses or those mini candy bars, then wrap up with clear Christmas theme plastic wrap and some pretty organdy ribbon from the floral craft department.

Q: I need ideas to use the pine needles from our Christmas tree?
Does anyone have any good crafting ideas as to what I can do with the pine needles or small branches from our Christmas tree? It's a Noble Fir, so it smells divine, but I need to take the tree down now. It's still very fresh, and I hate not making use of it's still fresh needles and little branches, and I don't have anything to mulch~ A Noble Fir has short needles, but the basket idea is good for long ones.

A: Make some sache for your clothes draws or hang them in the closets for that pine scent. You could put them in a bowl so you can smell them until spring. For my childrens first christmas, I saved small piece of a branch. and placed them in a zip loc bag. Put them in their baby keepsakes.