Here are enough craft projects to get us making and decorating for Christmas and then keeping ourselves cheerful after the holiday let down and we're far away from family again.
To start with we need to have on hand, lots of glass jars with lids, plastic produce containers, tissue paper, sugar, sugar cubes, contact paper, tissue paper, lots of candles, wax, clothesline, fabric, felt...
- Put up our felt advent calendar -- just like the one I had as a kid that my grandma made.
- Sugar snowflakes from Here We Are Together
- Tissue paper window stars from Here We Are Together
- Twig lanterns from Here We Are Together or Layered felt flower hair pins using designs inspired by the Super Simple Magnets craft book and cool flower patterns from Danielle's Place
- Corn starch modeling clay for rubber stamped ornaments from Here We Are Together or recycled magazine bowls from Eye Spy DIY
- Coiled baskets or coasters from Disney Family Fun or a Magazine wreath from Childhood 101 [Here is the one I made]
- Wax painting from Here We Are Together
- Felt Christmas Trees from Felt-o-Rama or All Sorts
- Make a video read-along book for faraway cousins [dh, ds, and dd completed! I wish the out-takes weren't deleted before I got to see them.]
- Lighted Christmas castle or igloo from Here We Are Together
- Floating candles from Here We Are Together
- Moonbeams in a jar from Adventures at Home
- Ice Magic from Adventures at Home
- Decoupage marble magnets from Bumbleberries Boutique
- Japanese Inspired Upholstered Ornaments from Crafty Pod
- Fleece hats from Martha Stewart
- Bowling Boys from Disney Family Fun
- Hand-made dolls from Martha Stewart
- Monogram Corkboards from Martha Stewart
- Felt slippers or Felt moccasin slippers from Martha Stewart
- Star garland from From Blah to Tada
- Scrappy Tree from Beneath the Rowan Tree
- Take a break
- Take a break
- Well, you know. It's Christmas.
- Figure out how to address the Post-holiday blues and plan to make more stuff:
- Melted spoon rose pins from Can't Stop Making Things
- Melted fabric rose napkin rings from Creative Jewish Mom
- Fairy light wreath from Esprit Cabane
- Button wreath from Pyjama School
- Snowflake prints from Pyjama School or sequin snowflakes from The Moffat Girls
- Wax Pinecones
- Hot wax rocks from Wisecraft via Dano Gold
- Toilet paper Owls from Creative Jewish Mom or Toilet paper villages from Even Cleveland
- Newspaper bunting from H is for Homemade
- Sea glass pendants from The Magic Onions
- Make something from felt from Practical Enrichment
- Sew pin cusions like cupcakes, farms on jars, tomatoes, or please enter your pin
- Waldorf felt playscape or felt playscape from One Crafty Place
- Story stones from Beneath the Rowan Tree
- Matchbox dollhouse from One Crafty Place
- Gelato playdough from LMNOP
- Felt Chrysanthemum pillow from H is for Handmade
- Paper Roses from Folding Trees
- Magazine jewelry from Craft Stylish
- Folded paper Circus Cake from Bigfoot and Pickle face
- Many things from the Must Have List at the Handmade Experiment
- Felt broch from ecouterre
- Ribbon bracelet from Martha Stewart
- Fabric flower and button broches from Craft Stylish
- Fleece flower pillows from Come Together Kids
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