Photo Wreath Craft

December 16, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Arts & Crafts, Girl Talk, Kid Connection

Take your pictures out the box and create a fun holiday decoration. The wonderful thing about this craft is that it can be themed to any holiday season. All you have to do is change up the craft decor for an instant personal and seasonal wreath!

What You’ll Need
12- or 14-inch Styrofoam wreath form
Colored card stock
3-inch circle template
Pencil
Scissors
Glue stick
Decorative-edge scissors
4-x-6-inch black-and-white photos
Craft glue
Ribbon
Jingle bells
2 T-pins

Make It
Use circle template to cut circles from card stock; cut faces from black-and-white photos into slightly smaller circles. Use a glue stick to attach the photo cutouts to card stock, then trim the card stock with decorative-edge scissors. Glue the photos to the surface of the Styrofoam wreath form with edges overlapping. Thread ribbon through jingle bells and tie bows. Glue the bells in between the photos as desired. Attach a loop of ribbon to the back of the wreath with T-pins and hang.

Easy Advent Calendar

December 16, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Arts & Crafts, Kid Connection

Make a tree by stacking 25 decorated envelopes to a corkboard — a month full of surprises! Get creative with your kids and decorate each envelope with scraps of colorful paper, ribbon and other easily applied craft decor. To make the tree you will need to line up the envelopes in this order: Top row-2 envelopes, next row-3 envelopes, middle row-5 envelopes, next row-6 envelopes, bottom row of tree-7 envelopes, last row (bark)-2 evelopes.