December 03, 2007
Welcome to Kids' Craft Ideas - your source of new and original crafts.
Kids' crafts develop kids' minds. Use these instructions as your starting point, but encourage kids to go beyond them and think of their own variations. They'll learn to think outside the square.
Teach your kids to be creative, and you give them skills for life. You'll find your children behave better and grow in confidence when they spend time making things with you at home.
Creative people don't give up. They find an inventive solution to every problem.
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Throw a Kids' Craft PartyHaving crafts at a party keeps children busy, creative and happy. They'll have a lot of fun, build great memories and enjoy taking the completed craft project home afterwards.
Make Sea Urchin Party Nibbles
Impressive! This spiny sea urchin takes only ten minutes to make and is a great edible centrepiece for the table.
Cute Peppermint Mice
A no cook recipe with lots of scope for creativity.
Homemade Christmas Ornaments
Use walnut shells to make beautiful sparkly ornaments, and hang them on the Christmas tree. This craft suits preschoolers, but older kids will enjoy it too.
Crazy Magazine Collage
My kids find this hilarious! Have a look at these pictures for inspiration, then cut up magazines and make crazy collage people. Great for cards, or just for fun.
Christmas Bird Decorations
Preschoolers will enjoy making these simple bird ornaments for Christmas, from walnut shells and red construction paper.
3 Easy to Make Christmas Crafts for Kids
Looking for easy to make Christmas crafts for your kids?Try these three ideas. Sit down with your kids and make creative gifts for grandparents or for another family.
(Special thanks to my good friend Tania for the first two ideas.)
Personalised Christmas Ornaments
Your kids can give these to their grandparents each year. Keep some for your own Christmas tree too!
To make one ornament, cut two identical star shapes from thin cardboard. Cut a hole the right size to frame your child's photograph in the centre of one of them. Paint the stars gold or silver with acrylic paint or glitter glue, and glue on craft jewels and sequins. Paint the year, eg: 2007, in the centre of the star which has no hole in it. When the stars are dry, glue your child's photo into its star frame. Place the two stars back-to-back, with the decorated sides facing out. Glue them together. Punch a hole in the top and add a loop of silver or gold cord to hang it by.
Your home-made Christmas ornaments will look beautiful on your tree each year, and be treasured as your children grow up.
Photos and full instructions for this project
Christmas Candy Cookie Pops
These are a stunning Christmas gift for a family. Make cookies on sticks, like lollipops, and give them happy faces with candy.
Use any chocolate chip cookie recipe, but leave out the chocolate chips. Place balls of cookie dough on non-stick baking paper on a baking tray. Poke a lollipop stick horizontally into each cookie before baking it. Once the cookies are cool, lift each cookie by its stick, dip it into melted chocolate and then into coloured sprinkles to make the hair. Stick candy on with chocolate to make the eyes and mouth. Wrap your cookies individually in small cellophane bags, one for each member of the family. Tie ribbons around the tops, and attach a gift tag with each person's name on it. Yum!
The Great Christmas Candy Chase
This easy to make Christmas craft will be a hit! It's also a cool present to give a family.
Buy a men's shirt, preferably in bright red or green and in L or XL size, from a second hand shop. Wash and dry it. Glue wrapped lollies and candy on it, using a hot glue gun. Space them about 5cm (2") apart, all over the shirt. Fold it and wrap it up along with these instructions:
"The Great Christmas Candy Chase
On Christmas Day, Dad needs to put this shirt on, shout, 'Ho, Ho, Ho,' and run away. This is the signal for all the kids to chase him and get the candy!"
This will give Dad the exercise he needs on Christmas day!
Photos and full instructions for this craft
Coming in Next Month's Issue
Next month's issue is full of snowman crafts - sock snowmen, a snowman cake and snowman gifts, as well as free printable snowman gift boxes.Also: The 7 best ways to encourage creativity in children.
And: A summer craft for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere!
Happy Christmas!
I hope you have lots of fun doing these Christmas crafts with your kids, and enjoy the pleasure of those who receive your gifts. May God bless you this Christmas.
Giselle
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