Christmas and Yule ornament craft ideas - Page 2

[Babytime]

Thanks for the great ideas!

[antannie]

I just made some knitter and spinner decorations for a craft sale. I made timy balls of yarn about 3/4 of an inch in diam and glued the end down with white glue. I made two tiny knitting needles with round toothpicks, I cut off one uend, dipped it in glue and glued on a bead. The I dipped the pointy end in glue and poked them through the ball of wool and added a handing cord. They were so simple and very popukar amongsdt the knitters. I put a few balls and a set of neeldles in a tiny basket for a variation and I also made spindles with the round toothcks and round flat beads. Then a I wound fine hadnspun on the spindle. I made a little fibre artist tree for my display and am adding some to my own tree this year.

[row_01]

You folks sure are crafty. If you're feeling less energetic this Christmas, I found a photo frame ornament here called pictoob http://www.pictoob.com that makes it easy to simply slide in your 4x6 photos and vio-la, an ornament ready to give to the fam.

[Tanzie]

oh felt makes the best ornaments,you and the kids can just go crazy with them and if you are good at sewing add bead and all kind sof little embelishments but if not just slap some glue on the suckers!

i am gonna have to try the cinnamon and applesauce idea that sounds awsome!

[pernies]

Greenegirl, I am so glad to see someone els who realizes the very young are not suppose to creat perfect adult like masterpeices, I work in a school and beleive me there are so many people who think otherwise, but to not change the subject, last year my sons and I made cinnimon orniments, native spirit eyes and this year we thought we might make dream catchers for our tree. If you are not familar with the spirit eye, and that is probably not what they are really called, I can try to explain how to make them. Get two or three sticks of the same lingth. make an equel cross with the two sticks or a six point star with the three sticks. with some yarn start in the middle and go from stick to stick, raping one time around each stick as you go. they are sort of like dream catchers but with out the ring. if any one is interested I could try to post a picture of one.

[BohoMama]

Life-sized paper doll

My little girl suggested this one. We traced her body on a very large piece of paper (she was dressed only in undies so that her clothes would not distort the body shape.) Then I cut out a "skirt" and "T-shirt" from old fabrics we had around the house and glued them on. She painted "stockings" on her legs and "skin" on the face and hands and I gave her blue button eyes and painted a little smile and some hair. When I wasn't looking, Amadea decorated the paper doll's hair with lots of buttons, which actually looks very fetching. We still need to do some shoes and I haven't decided yet whether to recycle an old piece of leather or use cardboard instead. My son, unfortunately, was not interested in doing this project, even when I offered that he could be "dressed up" in a costume.

The way we did it, this wasn't an obvious "holiday" project, but others could contrive a "Santa," "elf," or "angel" costume for their children's dolls. (Heck, you could do a whole nativity set this way!) It's also not a tree-sized ornament, but it could certainly be placed near the tree. So I hope y'all don't mind that I included it here.

We are going to send the life-sized doll to her grandparents in NY, which I think will be a very pleasant holiday surprise, since we won't see them this year.

[maurice]

citrius stained glass

got a bunch of citrus fruit (grapefruit, organges, lemons...) and sliced them somewhat then and placed them over a vent to dry out. tied a little ribbon to each and hung them on the tree! they do actually look quite pretty when the lights on the tree shine through them, plus I don't have to worry about the little kids getting into them. They don't break and are completely edible.

[BohoMama]

Originally Posted by maurice

got a bunch of citrus fruit (grapefruit, organges, lemons...) and sliced them somewhat then and placed them over a vent to dry out. tied a little ribbon to each and hung them on the tree! they do actually look quite pretty when the lights on the tree shine through them, plus I don't have to worry about the little kids getting into them. They don't break and are completely edible.

Those are very pretty. Just don't do what I did - put them in a food dehydrator instead of on top of a vent or radiator. They darken and look awful.