Christmas is one of the best times for surprises and cheerful, festive decorations can be a great time to make even more surprises. Adults and children alike enjoy making crafts, especially when the creations can be proudly displayed in the home. Many crafts can easily be made by almost anyone to decorate your home or given to friends and family for gifts. The time spent as a family making decorations can be very rewarding. Your family may enjoy it so much that you choose to make this a special tradition each year.

Once easy Christmas craft is to make a small table top tree. Begin with a foam cone which can be purchased at most any craft store or online. Cover the entire cone with double sided tape. You can adorn the tree with colorful beads, candies, pre-cut foam or paper shapes or any other item you can think of to attach to the tree. Make sure to cover the entire tree with your decorations and don’t forget your tree topper. You can cut and angel or star from construction paper.

Another simple Christmas craft is making popcorn garland. Kids love to make this craft and don’t be surprised if they try to sneak a piece of popcorn or two. Simply take a piece of string, about arm’s length, and thread a needle on one end and try a knot on the other end. Begin poking the needle into a piece of popcorn and pull it to the end of the string. Tie another not when the string is full. You can tie the garland together to make longer pieces to decorate your Christmas tree, fireplace mantle, doorways and more.

These two craft ideas can are so simple and inexpensive. You and your children will enjoy making these decorations and will delight in showing their creations off to all of your family and friends.



By: A.C. West

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