Christmas Crafts Galore ...I love the holidays with my kids!

We made holiday candle jars; the tea lights glow through the tissue paper so beautifully and they are so festive and neat! This was such an easy and fast craft. I like crafts that I can make a bunch of something fairly quickly, these will make really great gifts!

Supplies we used: newspaper to cover table, tissue paper, mod podge glue, beautiful scrapbook/craft stickers (really good ones), ribbon for gluing around the jar rim and for making bows on large size jars, hot glue gun for ribbon around rim, paint brush for gluing down tissue paper, glass jars, tea light candles for finished project.

We used cereal boxes and cut out holiday shapes (tree, houses, candy, candy canes). We then covered them with fabric scraps and glued with mod podge. Once dry we poked holes and added ribbon/ hanging hooks and hung on the tree.

Christmas carolers made from: toilet paper rolls, construction paper, little sheet music we printed from the internet, and the hats are old mismatched socks we cut and tied at the top.    

Christmas Ornaments

Easy dough recipe that bakes nicely and stays hard

All the p's are for Penelope. She loves p's

INGREDIENTS
1 cup salt
2 cups flour
1 cup water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Stir dry ingredients in a bowl, add the water
and oil, then stir until blended.
Knead to make
a smooth workable texture. Roll out and cut, don't forget to add a hole for hanging. bake at 250-350 degrees until hard. Oven temp and times vary.