Munchkins and Mayhem
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
Stained Glass Cookies
Yankee magazine shares a cute way to turn a cookie into a stained glass ornament. Using sugar cookie mix, crushed hard candies and holiday cookie cutters. They recommend hanging them in the window as sun catchers so the sun can shine through the translucent candy. The nice thing about this recipe is any cookie dough will work including sugar or gingerbread.
Good for ages 10 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2006-12/food/holidaylight
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Yarn Wreath Ornaments
Natural suburbia has a very easy tutorial to make a wreath out of yarn. The trick is to get very soft and textured mohair yarn. Then simply wrap it around a curtain ring. That's it
Good for ages 5 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.naturalsuburbia.com/2011/12/christmas-wreath-ornament-tutorial.html
Christopher and tia use a neater yarn in their version.
Get the instructions here:
Blogging the moments adds flowers.
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Smile like you mean it adds jingle bells and bows.
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Melted Crayon Ornaments
Swell designer turns clear glass holiday ornaments colorful using crayons. She simply adds a few broken pieces of crayon to each ornament and heats with a hair dryer twirling it around as the wax melts.
Good for ages 8 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://swelldesigner.blogspot.com/2012/11/diy-crayon-drip-holiday-ornaments.html
Friday, December 6, 2013
Letter Ornaments
Willowday shares a beautiful way to create a personal ornament using finger knitting using simply yarn and a matching color pipe cleaner. Imagine some letters may be harder than others though.
Good for ages 8 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.willowday.com/2012/12/finger-knit-letter-ornaments.html
3 squeezes uses wire and yarn to make her version.
Get the instructions here:
http://3-squeezes.blogspot.ie/2012/11/diy-monogram-stick-ornaments.html?m=1
Aunt peaches adds sequins for her version.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.auntpeaches.com/2012/11/custom-glittering-initial-ornaments.html
DIY Punched Tin Paper Angels
Gingerbread snowflakes shares a punched tin paper angel template. All you need is some metallic paper and a push pin. She recommends using a pencil for the pattern since it's such meticulous work.
Good for ages 12 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://gingerbreadsnowflakes.com/node/640
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Yarn Snowflakes
It's overflowing shares how to make a beautiful fluffy white snowflake ornament using simply twigs and yarn.
Good for ages 6 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.itsoverflowing.com/2012/12/snowflake-ornament-tutorial/
Creative Jewish mom glues colorful yarn to cardboard snowflake cut outs.
Get the instructions here:
http://www.creativejewishmom.com/2010/12/winter-craft-for-kids-make-snowflakes-from-recycled-cardboard-and-yarn.html
Cone Christmas Trees
Apartment therapy shares a very simple way to turn a paper cone cup into a Christmas tree. They don't include instructions to get cones that look like the photos though but recommend using paint, markers, glitter and stickers.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Missie lizzie me and my shadow uses green glitter paper and adds a gold star to make name cards.
Get the instructions here:
http://missielizzie-meandmyshadow.blogspot.com/2011/10/christmas-crafts-tree-table-place.html
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