With Christmas just around the corner, my son and I decided
to dedicate a few of our homeschooling days to getting into the festive mood.
And what better way to usher in the season than create Christmas decorations to
hang onto our “upcycled” tree?!
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| Image credit: Chandana Banerjee |
When a mom friend asked me for DIY Christmas tree
decorations that her son can make as well, I decided to put it down in a blog
post for all other moms out there, who’d like to do some Xmas crafting with
their kids.
So, here we go.
Your Christmas craft kit:
The very first thing to do is create a kit with all the
things you can use to make those decorations. I went foraging around my house,
pulling out balls of leftover wool, a few wooden clothes pegs and spoons, stickers, marker
pens, glue, child-friendly scissors and other bits and bobs that I felt we
could use in our crafting.
I also believe in recycling and reusing things that we
otherwise discard as junk.
I pulled out flattened sheets of thick card paper from
under the mattress that used to be a cake box earlier, as well as cardboard sheets
that comes with packages in which shirts and t-shirts are packed in. These are
very handy for making different kinds of crafts.
There were a few things that we bought, like star stickers,
tiny pompoms, cotton balls and some pre-colored ice-cream sticks.
DIY Christmas Tree Decorations: Some of the cute stuff that
we made at home were:
Popsicle stick snowflakes
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| Image credit: Chandana Banerjee |
Santa, Snowman and Reindeer faces with the recycled card
paper, cotton balls, pompoms for the noses and stickers
Cutout stars from card paper and the gold paper that
chocolates come wrapped in
Angels made out of wooden clothes pegs and spoons
Note: Click on the linked words above above and
follow the tutorials that pop up.
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| Image credit: Chandana Banerjee |
The Christmas Tree: We still have a few more decorations to
make, but we were in a happy hurry to put up the ones that we’d made last week.
Our "upcycled" tree, which is a thick twig with branches, is looking just as gorgeous as
any store-bought tree.
I hope you give these ideas a shot, and create these with
your children J.
Leave a comment below sharing what you are making for Christmas this year.
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