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Saturday, December 10, 2005

Ridiculously easy Christmas Craft


My youngest children ask me to make a Christmas craft nearly every day. Here's a quick and easy one. You do save all your Christmas cards, right? Even the ones from businesses and magazine subscriptions?
So go through those and pick out a small scene or picture, not much bigger than toothpicks.

Basically, as you can see, you just glue on a frame of toothpicks. You can keep going (three on each side seems to be a good number). You can add some touches of glitter or ribbon. You can cover with felt in the back, or paint the back a solid Christmas color. If you don't have toothpicks, use what you have on hand for a frame- twigs, bits of ribbon, puffy fabric paint, whatever.

I like to make a log cabin out of our lincoln logs every Christmas and decorate it for Christmas. I often use small pictures like this one to tape to the log cabin windows to look a scene our little log cabin family can see through the windows of their cabin. You could do something like that or hang a picture like this up on the wall of a doll-house.

I hope that by the time the First Years have outgrown their liking for easy Christmas crafts that I have granchildren to play with.

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