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Christmas Connect-the-Dots - Holiday Dot-to-Dot Puzzles - Children's Christmas Games. Adorable Handmade Christmas Ornaments. Card Inspirations greetings cards to make. Holiday Baking Inspiration » Annie's Eats. Holiday Baking Inspiration Holiday season is in full swing, and my kitchen has kicked into high gear with lots of baking going on. In case you are still deciding what to include in your holiday goody bags or just want something to enjoy with your family at home, here are a few of my favorite past recipes.

This cappuccino fudge is one of the two holiday treats I must bake every year. Even if I’m not making it for others, I always make one batch for us to enjoy around the house. Fudge is a special treat that I don’t make very often, so I love to savor each piece during the holiday season. You all know of my obsession with these sugar cookies and decorating them with royal icing. If you’re looking for a show-stopping holiday dessert, look no further. Last year I discovered that I do, in fact, like gingerbread treats and these gingerbread cookies in particular. These chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies are fun to make and to eat.

Christmas Stuff / Cute felt ornament! Christmas Stuff / toilet paper tubes into OWLS! Paper Ornaments. Free Craft Instructions - How to Make a German Paper Star (Froebel Star) 1. Free Christmas Craft Patterns and Templates - Winter Patterns. TUTORIAL: Paper Stars by `RainCookie on deviantART. How To Make A 3D Christmas Tree Card Or Decoration. Bucaro TecHelp Articles : Personal Expression Products : How to Make a Christmas Tree Pop up Card. One of the first things that herald in the Christmas season is greeting cards. The shelves are stacked with boxes of varied, assorted and made to order cards, ready to be signed and mailed. Imagine for a moment how wonderful it would be to personalize your cards this year, and make your own Christmas tree pop-up card to send to those special friends and family on your list! Steps 1. Right-click the image on the right and in the popup menu that appears, select Save Picture As.... In the Save As dialog box that appears, navigate to a folder where you want to save your project. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Christmas Tree Template. See it clearly If you are looking to do some fun Christmas crafts around the Holiday season, this Christmas tree template can provide you with a great starting point. Downloading Your Christmas Tree Template The Christmas tree template is easily downloadable using the above link. The file opens in any PDF reader, so if you already have one, you can just go ahead and open the file. To print, simply select the “Print” option from the file menu of your PDF reader. Using Your Template There are a number of great uses for a Christmas tree template. Use the template in a Christmas scrapbook Print the page and allow your child to use the template as a color sheet.

Benefits of a Template Drawing a perfect Christmas tree can be difficult, but with a tree template, you can easily have a perfect looking tree every time. Origami Christmas Trees. Stampingvideos Learn to create works of art without leaving home Your email address:Powered by FeedBlitz About I love to stamp and love to teach others how easy it really is. I am married to a wonderful man and we have 2 precious little girls along with 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs and 3 dogs. I work full time so I tend to stamp and make videos in the middle of the night when the house is quiet :-) I am not a Stampin Up demo but most of what I use is from Stampin Up as I love their products and their service!

Feel free to use the ideas and templates on my site, a link back to my site if you do would be wonderful :-) Email Me Archives. Craft Projects, Free Craft Projects, Paper Craft Projects. Perfect Snowflakes Every Time. A Snowflake Tutorial I love making snowflakes and being the perfectionist that I am, I like them to be as perfect as possible. The other day another teacher in the building asked me how I get mine to look so good, so I let her in on my little secret - it's all in the tools... First, gather your supplies: square sheets of paper (I just use regular printer paper that I square using the paper cutter at school,) a pencil, scissors and a protractor.

Take it from me, protractors are handy little tools to have laying around. Go ahead and get everything. I'll wait... Next, fold the paper in half so you have a long rectangle - sorry, no photo for this step. Then line up the side edges like you were going to fold it again - only this time into two squares (this is "folding the hamburger way," if you're curious) but don't really fold it. Lay the paper flat on the table and it should look like this: Now, get out your trusty-dusty protractor and line it up on the little crease you just made.

Make Your Own Tin Craft Stars … from a cake pan! Anyone else in love with the metal stars all over craft stores, decor catalogs and blog land? I have one—just one—in my house and have been pining for more, especially for holiday decorating. When I saw these on the At Home America website, I loved everything about them but the price: $3 each? Really? Since spending money is a no-no in my house right now, there was only one thing to do: Grab an old disposable baking pan and get to work. And the result? Adorable metal stars for ornaments, gift tags and decor straight from the recycling bin. Easy, fast and FREE with no sharp edges or points. Want to make your own? For this project you’ll need: … and … As always, I hope you’ll Rock What Ya Got and make this project work for you using what you have on hand already. Begin by removing any border from the pans and smoothing them out as much as possible. (This was as good as I could get my pans and they turned out fine.)

Print out a star to use as a template for cutting and tracing. 1. Not really. 2. 3. 4. Glue Yarn Ball Tutorial. This simple project might bring back memories of Elementary school, but it turns out to be not only a fun craft to do with the kids, but a darling Spring time decoration. Decorative balls like this can cost at least a few dollars each in the store, but if you make them yourself, you can make a ton of them for just a few bucks! Supplies for Yarn Balls: yarn (I used 4 different colors)a bag of balloons: I used 5 inch round balloons to make smaller yarn ballswhite craft glue: I used Elmer’s FYI – this craft is messy! Fun and messy! Step 1: Make a mixture of glue and water (avoid making it too watery). Step 2: Slightly blow up one 5 inch round balloon. Step 3: Pull out a big bunch of yarn from the yarn ball itself. Step 4: Begin wrapping the wet yarn around the small balloon.

Step 5: Once you have covered up a good majority of the balloon, cut off the yarn and tuck the end under. Step 6: Roll the yarn wrapped balloon one more time in the water glue mixture, and then squeeze out any excess. Polymer Clay Tutorials Canes. How to make salt dough Christmas Decorations | Make it and Mend it. If you’re looking for cheap Christmas decorations, or a more creative way to decorate your tree, then look no further than this great salt dough recipe…X Salt dough decorations are not only extremely easy and fun to make, but they can be decorated to look really dazzling and once you have mastered the basics you can move on to more daring designs like these curlicue ones how to make curlicue salt dough decorations You’ll need great newsletter… fantastic competitions… offers…Join us now – it’s FREE 2 cups of plain flour1 cup of table salt1 cup of water I’ve put the amounts on cups, but don’t worry if you are used to grammes, as all you need to worry about is getting the ratio right.

Decided on the cup you’re going to use (I find an ordinary coffee mug works well and gives a good amount of dough to work with) and stick to it for all the ingredients. There are many different recipes for making salt dough, but I find this is the quickest and easiest. Step 1 – mix the ingredients Step 5 – drying. Christmas activities: Composing carols - Scholastic Education PLUS.

Add to my folder 24 November 2008 By Rosie Huckle — Year 4 teacher at St Andrew’s CE Primary School, Leasingham Invite children to create their own versions of traditional festive songs 1. Angel rap Suggest to the children that they have a go at bringing some traditional Christmas carols up to date by writing rap versions of them. We’re the angel chorus up on high Rapping this story from the sky A baby was born in Bethlehem His name was Jesus – Alleluia, Amen. Back to top 2. While carols mainly centre on the Nativity, if you have children in the class of other faiths, it may be more appropriate to focus on general aspects of the Christmas season, such as the weather. Winter is… It tastes like… And smells like… Winter looks like… And sounds like… Winter is…. Children could substitute Christmas for other winter celebrations, such as Diwali or Hanukkah. 3. Did you know? The tradition of carols hails back to the 13th century. 4. 5. Children could learn and perform a carol in another language.