Cool Confetti Balloons

Today's Craft:

Cool Confetti Balloons

Craft Project Directions:

To make this festive balloons, all you need is the balloons themselves, some confetti, a small funnel or thick paper roll, and materials to decorate the outside of your confetti balloon.

Select a brightballoon and using a small funnel or thick paper roll to stretch the opening of the balloon, insert sparkling confetti.

Add glitter or sequins for some extra sparkle!

Now blow up your balloon and decorate the outside with Happy New Year!, the year, all sorts of colors and designs, or anything you wish.

When the countdown on New Year's Eve reaches Happy New Year pop your balloon and let the confetti fly!

Happy New Year 2010!
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Super Santa Faces

Today's Craft: Super Santa Faces

To create a Super Santa Face, take a paper plate and cut out a large mouth on the lower part of the plate- the plate will form the basis for the face.

Create a beard and hair using cotton balls, draw in eyes and a nose or add them with paper shapes. Add a hat if you wish!

Enjoy Crafting! Merry Christmas!

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Dangling Spiral Christmas Ornament

Today's Craft:

Dangling Spiral Christmas Ornament

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need an old colorful christmas card or a stiff piece of paper, scissors, a paper clip, and markers or crayons.

To begin take your card of piece of paper and trim it into a circle shape. Next cut it into a single spiral (use your scissors and start from the outside). Be careful not to cut the spiral too thick or thin.

Now decorate the spiral with your markers or crayons. Add additional decoration like glitter if you like. Let dry and use a paper clip to hang it.

Merry Christmas. Enjoy Crafting!

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Christmas Tree Hat

Todays' Craft: Christmas Tree Hat

Craft Project Directions:
To make this craft project you will need tape, glue, scissors, green construction paper, glitter, colored paper, markers or crayons and a couple of pipecleaners.

To begin, take your piece of green construction paper, bend it into a paper cone large enough to fit on your head, tape it so it will hold its form, and then trim the bottom with your scissors so your hat has a nice edge.

Now you are ready to decorate your tree.

Wrap pipecleaners around the cone for tinsel or lights. Add tiny paper ornament, stickers, and glitter with glue to brighten up your tree. Wear it with pride!

Merry Christmas. Enjoy Crafting!
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Magnificent Menorahs

Todays' Craft: Magnificent Menorahs

Craft Project Directions:

To create a magnificent menorah, cut a menorah shape out of construction paper and arrange it on a background piece of paper. Next cut out candles and flames to add to the menorah and decorate!

Menorah Template

Enjoy Crafting! Happy Hanukkah!

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Make a Magical Latke

Make a Magical Latke

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will need a paper plate, two craft sticks, tape, string, and brown colored heavier weight paper.

First take the two craft sticks and tape them together to make a longer stick- this will be your frying pan handle. Attach the craft sticks to the paper plate to make a frying pan.

Color, decorate, or wrap the frying pan in colored tissue paper if you wish. Next take a hole punch and poke a hole in the side of the paper plate and tie a legnth of string to it.

Now take the brown paper and cut out a latke shape and punch a hole in it. Attach the string from the paper plate to the paper latke and see how many times in a row you can flip the latke into the frying pan. Enjoy Crafting! Happy Hanukkah!

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Giant Gingerbread House

Giant Gingerbread House

Craft Project Directions:

To make this craft project you will a large cardboard box, colored construction paper, scissors, glue, tape, cotton balls, and markers or crayons.

To begin, take your box and wrap it in brown construction paper. Next take more brown construction paper, roll each piece into a long paper tube, and then stack these paper rolls, securing them together with glue or tape, creating a pyramid shaped roof on top of your box.

Now you have a basic gingerbread house shape to decorate.

Now take your construction paper and cut out a wide variety of shapes- rectangles, squares, triangles, circles, and more.

Glue your shapes onto the house to create windows, a door, candy trimming and decoration, etc. Add cotton balls for further decoration with glue. Let dry.

Enjoy Crafting!

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Candy Cane Reindeer Ornament

Candy Cane Reindeer Ornament

Craft Project Directions:

To make this reindeer ornament you will need a candy cane, two pipe cleaners, a piece of ribbon, and some construction paper.

The candy cane will be the reindeer's head. First take a pipe cleaner and cut it into 2 and 3 inch lengths. Next take another pipe cleaner and bend it into a V.

Twist the smaller pieces of pipe cleaner you cut before around the pipe cleaner V you made to make reindeer antlers.

When you are finished making your antlers, tape to or wind them around the top of your candy cane. Next give your reindeer a face.

Glue on a red nose at the other end of the candy cane and googly eyes or eyes cut out of construction paper about half way up the candycane.

If you want to hang your reindeer on the tree tape or glue a ribbon loop to the top back of the candy cane.

Happy Holidays! Enjoy Crafting!

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