what are some easy homemade decorations for Christmas I can make with my son?
Double G asked:
I need some easy directions on how to make some fun easy at home ideas for Christmas Tree decorations! Thanks!!!!
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8 Responses to “what are some easy homemade decorations for Christmas I can make with my son?”
Buy hanging bulbs of different colors, then use a crafts website to find ways to decorate, sprinkle and glue, or dye the bulb.
I need to kno how to creat my own xmas wreath!thanks
take a grapevine wreath, wrap Christmas ribbon around it, glue a small teddy bear in the center, and ad a ribbon to hang.
purchase glass ornaments and put a piece of everygreen in it, plastic works, or put in paint, as many colors as you wish, and run it around the inside.
Your son would love to make little crafts with you for Christmas. You can use them to decorate, or for gifts. Use old toilet paper rolls to make Santas, penguins, elves and reindeer. You can cut one in half and make 2 elves! All you need is:
- as many toilet paper rolls as you want
- scissors
- a set of markers/pencil crayons
- a glue stick/bottle of glue
- some black white paper
Using these you can make cute little figures and accessories for them! Curl paper into a round-bottomed pyramid for elf and Santa hats. There are so many possibilities!
candy cane reindeer are a must for any child’s tree. You can find directions for this just google or yahoo it.
You can make a wreath covered with little yarn dolls. To make the dolls,you cut a handful of 8″ or so long strands of colored yarn…red for santas,green for elves, white for angels, brown for gingerbread men,etc….tie at the center with a matching strand of yarn and leave it long enough to tie into a loop for hanging. Fold in half where tied then tie with more yarn at the neckline and the waistline. Divide yarn in half below the waist and tie at each ankle.
Use pieces of colored felt to make hats,mittens,beards, wings,dresses,etc. Glue on wiggle eyes. You can use these little dolls to hang on the tree or cover a wreath with them.
ADVENT CALANDER IDEA: I did this one year with my kids and we all loved it: Your son can help you make a Christmas tree out of green construction paper that you can hang on the wall or tape to a door, for example. The tree would be as big as you can make it…maybe 3 feet wide and 3 feet tall. Just cut irregular shaped branches and layer them to form a tree. Then, he can help you cut out different color circles using construction paper which will be the Christmas bulbs on the tree. Tape these on the tree. Then, without your son’s help, get a bunch of your old duplicate family pictures (we all have lots of those) and cut them into circles slightly smaller than the ones on the tree. Tape the pictures on each circle. Then, tape another circle on top of the picture. Write a decorative 1 through 24 on the circles. If you started Dec. 1st, you would need 48 circles. Each morning, your son can remove the corresponding top circle to the date. He’ll be delighted when each picture is revealed! It’s really fun! And, it’s not too late!
You can make a Mr. Hankey ornament by going #2, and then using fishing wire and a hook to hang it from the tree.
My Mr. Hankey ornaments get alot of laughs and plenty of discussion from the family over our Christmas dinner. You can also add a twist to it if you want, I got this idea recently and never put it to use:
1. Find an old Mp3 player with external speaker that you don’t want anymore.
2. Download some soundbites from of Mr. Hankey and place those clips onto the mp3 player.
3. Swallow that mp3 player and wait about 1 day.
4. Pass that mp3 player, so it is embedded within the “ornament” that you will be making.
This way, your new “Mr. Hankey” ornament will be able to play songs and say things just like the real Mr. Hankey! Great idea huh!! Well, have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! Best wishes!