Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Crafting in the house

At Christmas every year I force my kids to do some crafts. The thing with making crafts with kids is you want them to make things you actually want to show. I think I did good this year. They made some fantastic things, and I love having them shown in our home.
Here's their wonderful angel candle holders
  • Buy cheap candle holders at IKEA
  • Paint them with glue
  • Put on a sweet angel bookmark
  • Quickly roll it in sugar (here you can blow-dry to faster get to the next step)
  • Paint the upper edge with glue and dip it in silver/gold glitter
  • Put in a tea light and light it - enjoy <3
I also had them make some cute mittens to hang in the tree.
  • Cut a nicely patterned felt into two mittens
  • Sew them together with easy stitches
  • Glue on a crochet lace
  • Thread a red ribbon through it and tie
  • Hang it in you tree/nose/whatever
I think they are just supercute <3 My kids got lots of compliments from the proud mum. Aww, they did good. Now they are craft-free until Valentine's Day ;)

4 comments:

  1. these are sooooo cute!!!
    i made my little neice a beautiful wand for her christmas tree.
    gosh, your children are talented, congrats, they're just like their mummy

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  2. Those are neat! I'll have to try them out.

    My aunt's friend lost /all/ of her Christmas things (we don't know the story behind how, we just know that it happened), and we've all be pitching in to find things to give to her. I think that these cute little crafts would be absolutely perfect to make and give to this family. Thank you so much for sharing these.

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  3. AWWWS! Me and my mom did some crafts too when I was a kid.... It's really joyful to see you make these kind of things with your kids... some moms don't do them at all :C I don't understand why though because it's an easy and fun way to spend time with your kids!

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  4. I love those little mittens! They're so cute. Now I'm going to go find some nice felt tomorrow and make these with my daughter. Thanks for the good idea Adora! xo

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