Picture Frame

You're taking all these lovely pictures during the holiday season and you need a frame to show them off!  Using a wood frame (we bought ours at Michaels craft store for $1.00), paint add some pretty holiday paper and you can display those pictures for all to see.

Supplies:
Wood picture frame
white paint (or a color to match your paper)
holiday paper
pencil
scissors
decorations (stickers, glitter, sequins, greenery)
modge podge
paint brushes

Paint the frame, don't forget to paint the sides and the inside (right by the picture).  Once the frame is dry, outline the frame onto your holiday paper and cut out.

glue the paper onto your frame

Now is the time to decorate.  A word to the wise, if using a foam sticker (like I did) put it on after we modge podge.  I put it on before and had to modge podge around the foam sticker (it wasn't easy)

once your stickers are on your frame, brush on a little modge podge

we used the Shimmer Modge Podge

it gives it a finished look

All ready for a picture!

I think we'll put our Santa picture in this frame!

Thanks for stopping by!

Foam ornament Gift Tag

I'm going to cheat a little on today's craft! (oh my!)  We had our Daisy party today and we made a really cute foam Christmas tree ornament that I had to share.    I only have one photo (sorry! they were putting them together real fast!)  You could make these smaller, they would make adorable gift tags!  (and give little ones something to do while you wrap the presents)

Supplies:
Green foam
glitter, sequins, trinkets, pictures, buttons, ribbon(to decorate)
Hole punch

Our girls glued their picture on the tree, then got to decorate it.  I'm really not supposed to see this, because it's for me (and RT, too).  Bella went the simple route and just put her picture on there.  I think it looks beautiful!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mosaic Christmas Tree

Thought we would do a little tiling today.  We have a bathroom project that I thought you could help us out on.  You're good with your hands, right?  Ok,  ok, we're tiling, but, we are using paper squares,  not real tiles for our project. 

Supplies:
Green construction paper (cut into small squares)
brown construction paper (cut into small squares)
glue
white piece of paper (any color, really)
glitter, glue, sequins, markers (all your choice)


While Bella was getting ready, this is what I was doing

As you can see, we used different shades of green

First, lightly draw an outline of a tree on your paper

add some glue

and start tiling

all this practice, maybe Bella can redo our bathroom?

 

it took some time to fill the tree in with squares

don't forget the tree stump!

add a few personal decorations

and, of course presents! 

What's a tree without presents?

Let me know how your mosaic tree turns out.  We can use all the help we can get on our bathroom!

See you tomorrow!

Stocking

Wow! 2 weeks into our crafts.  There are so many crafts for us to do, it is hard to choose which ones to make.  Bella and I are having fun.  I hope you are too.

The glitter was flying around here today!  We are making and decorating Christmas stockings.  This is an easy one, not too many supplies.

red construction paper
cotton balls
glue
glitter
sequins
stickers, pictures (to personalize your stocking)


Draw a stocking onto the red construction paper.  We cheated and copied one of the stockings we have here at home.

Bella is really getting into it.  I think she is enjoying this crafting session

Bella is in charge of decorating

she decided to add a little fur to the top of her stocking

Bella added her name.  She wants to make sure that Santa knows who this stocking belongs to!

GLITTER!!!

Bella loves the glitter cloud

"Oh, no!  A sequin explosion!"

Glitter, sequins, stickers, glitter glue and we're done!

I think Santa will know who this beautiful stocking belongs to!

Enjoy your day!  See you tomorrow!

The Excitement is building

Funny how this time of year brings with it an extreme excitement for my kids.  They really don't have much on their lists.  They are just excited about the whole season.  They, also, turn into little angels with halos. 

We have a calendar countdown.  Bella makes sure that the date is changed every morning.  I then get the run down of how many more days until Christmas.  Decorations have to be in place.  And then it's skip, skip, skip through the house about our business.  We listen to Christmas music in the car.  No problems or worries, just fun and enjoyment of the season. 

Snowman Ornament

Alot of snowmen and sleighs but no snow on the ground!

Bella is back and feeling ALOT better.  Full of energy and ready to get back into crafting, so, let's get started!

Supplies needed:
White foam
3 different size round bottles/cans*
popsicle stick (or tongue depresser)
glue
black and orange marker
buttons
ribbon
scissors
*I used the cap to a gatorade bottle, the cap for the milk container and the top of a 15oz can

Ok, Let's start by tracing the 3 different size caps onto the white foam, you will need to trace each one twice

Then cut them out

On the smallest circles, draw a face for your snowman

don't forget the carrot nose!

glue ribbon onto popsicle stick

Glue the circles to your popsicle stick

turn over and glue the other three on that side

(a two sided snowman)

arrange buttons and glue them down

make sure to put buttons on both sides

All ready to be put onto the tree!

So glad Bella is feeling better!  I missed her help these last couple of days. 

Thanks for stopping by!  See you tomorrow!

Candy Sleigh

Today we are going to make a candy cane dish that looks like Santa's sleigh.  I got the idea for this project from here.  

You will need:
a box (I used a cracker box)
red paint
Xacto knife
scissors
ruler
2 candy canes
candy

Start with your cracker box

 

Cut down to size of sleigh (my sleigh is 4 inches)

Cut an angle from the back to the front of the sleigh

you will have to straighten out the front of the sleigh

the front of my sleigh is about 2 1/2 inches

Next, using scissors, start shaping the sides to look like an actual sleigh

Using your xacto knife, carve out a hole big enough to fit your candy cane

You will need two holes in front, and two in back

They will need to be the same distance so the candy canes are straight (you might want to use the ruler)

I had to cut my candy canes because they curled too much into the front of the sleigh

Paint your sleigh

I had to do a couple of coats to cover the words on the box

Lookin' good

Even better with the candy!

Sure hope we get some snow so we can go sledding!

See you tomorrow!