Coolest Christmas Craft Ideas
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Here are some of the coolest Christmas craft ideas to use as icebreaker activities and during the party. You can also use these ideas to keep your kids busy and creative during the holiday season. They're SLED-LOADS of fun!
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*Jingle Bell Jewelry: Prepare a few bowls of Jingle Bells and precut lengths of very thin satin ribbon in red, green and gold. Have the guest create a jingle bell necklace or bracelet by adding a few bells to their ribbon and jumping a few times to make sure their bells ring just right! This'll add lots of jingles to your party and it's a great favor to take home.
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*Rudolph Candy Canes: for this you will need large glue, scissors, wrapped candy canes, red ribbon, wiggle eyes, small read pompoms and brown or black colored pipe cleaners. Show the kids how to make one: glue the wiggle eyes onto the rounded face of the candy-cane and the red pompom (for the nose) on the edge of the hook of the candy-cane. Tie red ribbon into a bow onto the straight part of the candy-cane. For the antlers, take one large pipe cleaner, have it go under the crook of the candy cane – bring it up and twist (this creates the right antler and the left antler – each tip of the pipe cleaner is a different antler). Then take another pipe cleaner and cut it in half. Take one of the halves and wrap it around one of the antlers (to thicken the antler). Do the same with the other antler and the other half of cut pipe cleaner.
*Snowman Face Balloons: Prepare a bunch of white balloons on hand. Give each guest an inflated balloon and paints, q-tips and have them create a cool snowman face.
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*Styrofoam Snowmen: Buy Styrofoam balls at a craft store. Give each guest three balls and have them make a snowman. Materials they'll need includes glue, black card stock for making top hats, buttons for the eyes, felt for scarves, triangle orange felt rolled up for the nose, thin twigs for the arms, and anything else you can think of. Also give them cotton balls to glue at the base. This is a great gift to take home.
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*Cottonball Snowmen: Take a piece of clear contact paper and cut it in the shape of a snowman. Staple the contact paper sticky side up and start to peel the paper so the children may peel the rest. Have them stick cotton balls on the contact paper. The kids love this activity.
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*Paper Plate Snowmen: Snowmen can also be created by using paper plates. Use a large one and a small one. As in the activity above, have materials on hand for decorating the face. The cutest part though, is the carrot nose. Cut a piece of orange paper into a triangle and then roll and tape it into a pointy "carrot." Make a hole for the nose and push it in from the back.
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*Marshmallow Snowmen: Have the kids build a snowman with marshmallows. They'll need a large toothpick (careful.) to connect the three marshmallows one on top of the other. Then have them use pretzel sticks for the arms and put small marshmallows on the ends for the hands. Provide candy to decorate the faces. The kids will be just as excited to eat their snowmen as make them.
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*Real Indoor Snowman: You'll need three balloons, salt, felt, scraps of cloth, 1 large bowl, 1 medium bowl, and 1 small bowl, and a large pan or plastic container. Fill the balloons with water a day before the party, place each balloon in one of the bowls, and freeze. When the kids arrive, take out the frozen balloons and cut the balloon off. Place the ice balls inside a large plastic container one on top of the other connecting each with salt. The more salt you use the better they will stick together. Then allow the kids to put clothing and body parts on. The kids will enjoy watching as their snowman melts and seeing all the clothes floating in the water by party's end.
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*Jingle Bell Necklaces: Prepare bowls with various sizes of jingle bells and precut lengths of the very thin satin ribbon in red, green and gold. After making the necklace, each child needs to jump a few times to make sure their bells ring just right...
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*Christmas Window Decorations: You can create your own homemade recipe so that kids can safely and easily paint on the windows of your house. The materials needed: water, food coloring, and icing sugar. The recipe: Into a small bowl, sift around 1/4 of a cup of icing sugar. Then add a couple drops of water to make the paste (it needs to be thin enough to paint on the window but thick enough to use as paint). With food coloring, create different colors in different bowls. The kids can paint all kinds of Christmas designs, animals, flowers, snowflakes, etc. They do this with different sized paintbrushes (a toothpick will work well for making dots). Wipe the design off with a warm washcloth.
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*Color a Snowflake: Precut white paper in the shape of snowflakes (round coffee filters are best for children). Provide markers and have the kids decorate their own snowflakes. Fold the snowflake and on the folded edge have them cut small shapes, then when you open up the snowflake, it will have beautiful repetitive shapes.
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*Freeze a Bubble: You can have the kids blow bubbles onto a paper plate and then freeze it. It freezes within minutes. Amazing! If the weather outside is below 32 degrees, you can take your bubble activities outdoors. Blow a bubble and catch it on the wand. Wait and watch as it freezes. It will turn into a crystal ball and then shatter like glass! The children will see the ice crystals form. You can also do this with large bubble wands. Dip the wand into the bubble solution but do not blow a bubble. The crystals will form across the mouth of the wand.
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*Cool Gloves: You can find cheap gloves or mittens and let the kids decorate their own with beads, glitter, rings, etc. The gloves are a cool gift and come in handy on cool days.
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*Handprint Wreath: Have the kids trace their hands on green colored paper. Have them cut out at least 10 handprints for one wreath. Have them glue them – overlapping each other a little bit and so that it makes a round circle. Then glue on a real red ribbon (or one cut out of red construction paper). You can give the kids markers and glitter to decorate. |
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*Popsicle Stars: For this you’ll need popsicle sticks, glue, paint, glitter, and thread or ribbon. Let the kids paint their popsicle sticks. Then have them glue 5 of them in the shape of a star, here are two optional star designs... They can then decorate their Christmas star with glue and glitter (they can also decorate with salt which will give a crystal effect). Then tie or loop thread or ribbon so that they can hang their Christmas ornament. |
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