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I’m in such a joyous Christmas mood that every single thing I see reminds me of Christmas! 😀

Let’s make a footprint snowman today 🙂

Footprint Snowman

Paint your foot white. It’s gonna be ticklish! 😀

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of dark coloured construction paper

Help the little one cut the tiny details such as the hat, scarfs, buttons, eyes and mouth.

You may use construction paper, felt or foam 🙂

Paste the tiny details

Your footprint snowman is done! 😀

P/S: I just realised the snowman doesn’t have hands! 😛

Remember the Candle Polka Dots art we did not too long ago? Today we are going to use the same technique and create a Christmas tree out of it 😀

Candle Drops Christmas Tree

Using a brush, paint lots multiple colours dots on a piece of art block

Light a candle and let the wax drip on the dots of colours.

Once the wax are dry, paint green over them.

Scrape away the candle wax and you’ll get beautiful dots of colours decorating your Christmas tree 😀

Candle Drops Christmas Tree featuring Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House

We did a very interesting art piece today 🙂

Handprint Santa Claus

First paint your palm white

Stamp the painted palm onto a darker coloured paper

Paint your thumb red

Stamp the painted thumb as Santa’s nose

Paint your thumb pink

And stamp as the Santa’s cheeks 😀

Paint your thumb white and stamp as the eyes

Cut the Santa’s hat out of red felt. We use red foam as I happened to run out of felt! Improvise! 😀

Paste on some cotton too

Paste a cotton ball at the end of the hat

Paint your pointer black and stamp as Santa’s eyeball and you are done 😀

Handprint Santa – featuring cute kiddos Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House

Come Christmas, all I can think of is a wonderful winter wonderland. Let’s get some paper plate and ‘build’ a cute snowman 🙂

Paper Plate Snowman

Glue two paper plates together. Put cloth pegs to secure it until the glue dries up.

I cut a carrot out of an orange foam for the nose. Glue it onto the snowman.

I cut circles out of green foam for the buttons. See my boy trying to photograph himself pasting the buttons here. He's learning to take over my job! 😀

Use a hole punch to punch out tiny dots for the mouth.

I use felt for the scarf, pipe cleaner for the hands and foam and ribbon for the ear muffs. The snowman is ready to cheer up your wall. If you wish to convert it into a mobile, just do two of it and paste it back to back. Tie a string over it and hang. Nice 😀

Share with us your Christmas craft ideas by submitting them here and we’ll link it back to you 🙂

Remember I did a gingerbread man using cork sheets? Well, we can always improvise and use craft foam instead. Always remember to do the same on both sides if you intend to hang it as a Christmas tree ornament. Here, I use glitter pen to line my gingerbread man.  This is yet another very simple project to be working with the kids. 🙂

Foam Gingerbread man ornament

If you have any other gingerbread man crafts to share with us, submit it here and we’ll link it back to you. 🙂

Our craft demonstration during the ParenThots Family Day is finally over. Here are some pictures of the event. Enjoy 🙂

The booth before the 'crafty' touch 🙂

Crafters at work.

Ethan's artwork for display.

Our booth with the bunting, banner and artwork 🙂

Foam Christmas Tree and Ladybugs are the chosen crafts to be given away to visitors.

The art and craft work on display.

Kids trying their hands on origami as I guide them along..

The scorpion boy! 😛

The origamis kids can come out with.. Simply amazing!

Kids having fun...

Visitors filling up the blog subscription form.

Finally, the people who made it possible that day. A million thankx go out to Kimmy and family, my parents and also my Darling husband for helping me out. I can't possibly make it without you guys. 😀

Christmas Tree Ornament

Christmas tree ornaments are getting rather expensive these days. Why not try making some on your own? Not only will it be more sentimental, it’ll not burn a hole in your pocket.

This foam Christmas tree ornament is extremely easy to do. Try it, you’ll love it.

Foam Christmas tree ornament.

Draw a Christmas tree on a green foam. If you have Christmas cookie cutters will be great. You may use the Christmas tree cookie cutter to draw an outline on the foam.

Cut it out.

Add glitters.

Put a needle through it and tie a knot at the end of the thread. Your Christmas tree ornament is done. So simple. 🙂

We can actually use basically anything to make a Christmas tree ornament. It need not be expensive. Here’s a simple idea of making a Christmas tree using pipe cleaner.

Pipe cleaner Christmas tree ornament

Get a green or white {or any colour as you wish} pipe cleaner. My boy finds it ticklish handling it for the very first time. 😀

Bend it to form the shape of a Christmas tree.

Decorate it as you wish. Tie a thread at the very top and add a star to complete it.

Click here to learn how to fold and cut the perfect star to be used for the above Christmas tree.

If you love this and want to try doing it, do share your version of the Christmas tree with us by submitting your tree here. We learn and we share. 😀

I have always loved to have something nice to be placed on the corner table just to add some touch of cheerfulness this jolly season. Try this easy to make toilet paper roll Santa.

Toilet Paper Roll Santa.

Spread some glue onto a pink paper.

Wrap that paper along the toilet paper roll.

Put some glue onto the cotton balls.

Paste the cotton balls onto the roll.

Paste all over leaving a small square for the face.

Paste a red felt as the Santa’s hat. You may draw the eyes and nose or cut out a face from a magazine and paste it onto the roll.

If you have any great Christmas craft ideas and wish to share it with us, feel free to submit your craft here. Thank you.

This Christmas, let’s make an origami candy cane.

Origami candy cane.

Fold as shown above and turn over.

Roll up.

Roll all the way until you get this.

Fold forward.

Fold backward and you are done.

You may use this candy cane as a bookmark, Christmas tree ornament or anything to your fancy.

Have other Christmas ideas to share? Submit your crafts here and we’ll share it with the world this Christmas. 🙂

This Christmas, after all the attention spent on your Christmas tree, don’t forget your walls. They could use some cheering up too. Let’s make this cheerful ‘Rudolph’. 🙂

Hand and foot print reindeer.

Trace your footprint on a piece of felt.

Trace your handprints onto another felt of different colour.

Paste and decorate the reindeer.

Hand and foot print reindeer.

Click here to see how to make the double bow ribbon used on the reindeer.

Have any nice Christmas craft to share? Share it with us by submitting your craft work here and we’ll link it back to you. 🙂

This simple ribbon is suitable to be used for complementing your Christmas gift wrapping.

Double bow ribbon.

Make a loop.

Make another loop, smaller than the previous loop.

Wrap a short piece of ribbon around the middle of the two loops.

Make the tail and add it onto the loops.

This nice little paper basket can be used to place little gifts for the little ones.

Woven Heart Basket.

You'll need two different colours of papers. Fold and cut so that each piece has 3 loops.

Starting with the bottom 1/3 loop of the green piece, weave it through the first red loop, insert the second red loop through this green piece and weave this green piece through the 3rd red loop again.

Do the opposite way for the middle loop of the green piece. First weave the right red loop through this green loop, then weave this middle green loop through the middle red loop and then weave the red loop through this green loop again.

If done correctly, your basket should be able to open this way.

Using a craft scissors, cut a red strip and weave a green strip through it as the handle of the basket.

The beautiful paper heart basket.

This Christmas, let’s do some snowflakes to decorate our house.

Snowflake crystal.

Fold in half to make a crease.

Fold half again.

Fold as shown above.

Turn over.

Fold as above.

Fold in half.

Draw the lines and cut accordingly.

You may want to paste it onto a hard board and paste some glitters on it as a Christmas tree ornament or just paste the snowflake onto your window panes.

Got some awesome Christmas ideas? Come share it with us.  Submit your crafts here. 🙂

Kimmy of “Kimmy and Julie :: Family Journal” had requested a craft on Christmas. He specifically wanted a Ginger Bread Man. So here it is, a Crafty Crafted version of the Ginger Bread Man.

Ginger Bread Man

Cut a ginger bread man out of a thin cork sheet. Paste googly eyes on it.

Trace the ginger bread man onto a white piece of paper. Cut out the strips as the 'icing' and glue them onto the ginger bread man.

Paste the necessary decorations on the ginger bread man. You may run a thread through it to make a christmas tree ornament or paste a magnet at the back as a fridge magnet.