Salt dough decorations. Easy and lots of fun plus you get something for your tree or to give to relatives for their Christmas trees! Here’s a recipe for salt dough
Paper chains – a quick and easy way to decorate your home. The kids can get involved with the making too…or make a paper chain snowman – we have put jokes in the inside of ours to help countdown to Christmas.
You can use coloured paper and glue or try twisting crepe paper chains to create a fun alternative!
Crackers – You can either buy a set or follow this fun and cheap way to make your own. Quick! save those loo rolls!
Make your own party hats from crepe paper, fold and position inside the loo roll. Add whatever gift you like – we went with scratchcards for the adults and snap cards for the kids) and write out your best joke.
Here are some of our favourites:
Place everything inside the look roll and wrap in wrapping paper or paper the kids have decorated themselves. Use ribbon to tie the ends and you could even add a sprig of holly to decorate.
Something fun to do at the start of December but the fun continues all the way to Christmas Day!
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Reindeer Puppets – we’ve had loads of fun with this….in our fortune-teller we put the following
Festive hand and footprint keepsakes. We did the hand and footprint reindeer card for relatives for both children’s first Christmas and the Santa Sleigh card when they got a bit older. We included the below poem…
There used to be so many
Of our fingers prints to see
On furniture and walls and things
From sticky, grubby us
But if you stop and think awhile
You’ll see we’re growing fast
these little moments disappear
You can’t bring back the past
So here is a small reminder
to keep, not throw away
Of tiny hands and how they looked
to make you smile someday
Egg box reindeer – my youngest loved doing this. She set about painting the egg box (after I had cut it up) and we had all discussed how to make “brown”. In the meantime, I cut out the antlers and the ears. Once dry, it was just a matter of gluing on the ears, antlers, eyes and nose. We also made some “Christmas Puddings” with just eyes and cotton wool to depict custard being poured over. It wasn’t a 100% obvious what they were, hence no photo but we had fun doing them!
Paper Plate Wreaths and Trees – easy and another one that my youngest really enjoyed as once the cutting out was done, she could do it on her own. Ideal forMiss Independent.
Stickmen with lolly sticks! We made Elves, Santa and Snowmen. The kids loved these, in fact they both say their favourite activity of the day.
Variety of Christmas Trees to prevent the “Real” thing being decorated by little hands! Paint, loo rolls, card, fluffy balls, sequins, glitter….go for it.
Snowmen from bottle tops, so parents can enjoy a beer the night before then the children can help make the decorations the next day?!
“Snowman Slam” Decorate plastic cups into snowmen, build a pyramid and get a soft ball…..a homemade coconut shy!
Snowman – ideal for younger ones if Mummy has done some cutting out!
Pinecone reindeer! My favourite. Make this great Christmas decoration….love him and so easy. Get involved in a nature walk first collecting the pine cone and the twigs for the antlers. Leaves or paper can be used for ears. Then away you go!
Reindeer lollies, ideal for a party or a bit of fun to hand out to friends. Really easy, cut out the reindeer and stick either side of the lolly….
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