Cute Christmas Chocolate Bar Wrappers
Here are a few ideas for inexpensive stocking fillers, Secret Santa pressies or festive treats for the kids. You could even make lots for a children’s Christmas party!
Colourful Christmas Cats
These curious ornaments will make a purr-fect addition to your Christmas tree this season. Materials wooden craft spoons acrylic paint white card stock glue pipe cleaners seed beads fine point permanent marker green tissue paper red beads or glitter string To make each one, first coat a wooden craft spoon with acrylic paint. Paint a patch of the same shade onto a piece of
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Stunning DIY Christmas Bauble
Can you guess what this Christmas Bauble has been made from? This sparkly ornament is made from common pushpins! Materials Polystyrene Foam Balls (from art and craft outlets such as Lincraft, Spotlight, Riot Art and Craft) Clear Pushpins Hanger (tinsel, pipe cleaner, curling ribbon, red ribbon etc) Instructions Insert clear push pins in a circle around the middle of the polystryrene ball then add
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Christmas March of the Penguins
This countdown to Christmas craft is a very clever and creative use of plastic drink bottles. You will require some painting skills to be able to pull this off though – courtesy of Craftberry Bush Believe it or not, these cute penguins started of as…. ….these. Plastic drink bottles. Cut the bottles in half and throw away the top section. You will need two
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Paper Snowflakes
A little warning: this gets addictive! Paper snowflakes are fun to make, especially as each one is different! They look fabulous stuck on a wall, strung together in front of a window or placed over contrasting coloured gift wrap as present toppers. You could also glue a small one on a dark-coloured card to make handmade Christmas cards or you could laminate a huge
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Click and Print Ornaments
At least one kind of mouse will be stirring this Christmas: Download our ornament templates, and then add your pictures to fashion personalized decorations.From the Martha Stewart Website. Ornament How-To Download templates; print onto card stock (or color-photocopy at 130 percent). Using a utility knife, cut out the six squares. (If adding photos, use imaging software to size them to fit windows, which are
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Clip Art Christmas Gift Tags
Why are these creatures smiling? They’re holding on to a secret, and when the time comes, they’ll open their arms wide to reveal it: a hidden holiday greeting. Kids can write their own messages inside these cheerful cards and hand them out to classmates and teachers, or punch a hole at the top and tie on ribbon or yarn to use as tags. Choose
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Glittered Paper Cutout Ornaments
A blue spruce’s “snow”-dusted branches, metallic balls, and shimmering paper ornaments sparkle in the morning light. Templates (birds, butterflies, ice skates, and many more) for the ornaments are provided, so all you have to do is cut, glue, and glitter. The ornaments are so simple — and inexpensive — to create that you could fill a whole tree with them. From the Martha Stewart
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Printed Christmas Cards
Alana and Ariella started printmaking last lesson and Alana managed to print a range of cards onto coloured card and tissue paper. Ariella was finishing her design and did not have time to print – next lesson! Here are the beautiful cards. These look terrific and come with a white envelope for the girls to give to someone special.
Lesley is a professional artist and amateur photographer who works in a variety of art forms, embracing both traditional and digital media. Lesley is also a qualified and fully registered art teacher with over 20 years of experience. She is currently teaching art to children in her home studio plus making and selling nature inspired prints and products in her online shops.
