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Eva's Holiday Window Hangers
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This is a great craft from Evamarie Spataro, who is the creator of PetCorner that is great for little hands.

Snowman

What you will need:

  • Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Glue
  • Sharpie pen or black marker
  • Black, white, green, red & orange construction paper

What to do:

  1. Take a piece of white construction paper and draw the body of a snowman and cut it out. Set it aside.
  2. Now, take a piece of black construction paper and draw a top hat. Set aside as well.
  3. Take a piece of red construction paper and cut a small band the length of the hat.
  4. Glue the band to the middle of the hat.
  5. Then, glue the finished top hat on the snowman's head.
  6. To make the scarf take a piece of green construction paper and draw a scarf. You can leave it a solid color or you can take pieces of construction paper the same length of the scarf and glue them to the scarf.
  7. Cut it out and glue to the snowman's neck.
  8. For the nose draw a carrot on orange construction paper cut it out and glue it on the middle of the snowman's face.
  9. For arms draw two branches on black construction paper and cut them out and glue to the snowman's sides.
  10. Take a marker and eyes and a mouth on the snowman.

Tree

What you will need:

  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Black marker
  • Green, red, white, and yellow construction paper

What you do:

  1. Draw a triangle on green construction paper. Cut it out and set aside.
  2. Make little ornaments and glue them on the tree one by one.
  3. Draw a star on yellow construction paper and glue it to the top of the tree.
  4. Draw two equal sized circles cut them out and put them on the tree for eyes. Take a black marker and draw one circle in each eye.
  5. Take black construction paper and draw a mouth cut it out and glue on the tree

    You're done!

Wreath

What you will need:

  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Green, red, white, and black construction paper
  • Black marker

What to do:

  1. First, take a piece of green construction paper and draw a wreath (one without on accessories) . Cut it out and set aside
  2. Take some red construction paper and draw a bow. Add some shadowing to for a 3-D affect.
  3. Glue your bow to the wreath. Make two round circles on white construction paper. Cut them out and add one black circle to each white circle.
  4. Glue them to the wreath for eyes.
  5. Now, take a piece of black construction paper and draw a mouth. Cut it out and glue it to the wreath
  6. For all of these things you must put a piece of string or yarn for the hanger.

    Finished!

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Use paint on a transparency
From: Caryn Trout
Craft Idea for all occasions. Find your favorite pictures. Copy them on a transparency and then use regular craft paint to paint it. You can then either leave it like that, or you can cut around the shape. It makes like a stain glass window effect or like the window clings.


Kathy's Paper Plate Stain Glass Window
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This is a simple idea that comes from Kathy Fogarty in San Diego. It is an easy craft that is perfect for little hands and can be adapted for holiday crafts. She says, "I have used this idea with my three year old daughter and it went really well. The paper plate (stained glass) craft came from a sample someone had made."

Great Gift & Fundraising Idea
Brownies in a Jar Gift
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Santa's Candy Sleigh
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Story of the Candy Cane
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Christmas Decorations Kids Can Make
by Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm

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Crafts for Christmas
(Holiday Crafts for Kids)
by Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm
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A collection of twenty special Christmas craft projects features such holiday specialties as an Advent calendar made from an egg carton and tree ornaments made from glitter and sugar

175 Easy-To-Do Christmas Crafts
by Sharon Dunn Umnik
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