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Christmas Craft Party
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Last year, the first weekend of December arrived with a packed calendar: Ellie's performances in the Nutcracker ballet. Family coming to see the show. Our church holiday fair. The holiday craft fair at Caitlin and Ellie's school. Something had to give, and for the second year in a row, it was going to be the school craft fair.
This news was met glumly, but the holiday spirit was quickly revived when I suggested a mini-holiday craft party of our own. The girls got right down to making invitations, inviting two friends each. Then we found two Christmas-y crafts that looked fun to make en masse.
Two Saturdays later, we were ready with Christmas cookies, hot chocolate fixings, and a table for six, covered with craft supplies.
First up, trimming the trees. Ours were paper, and the girls made a virtual forest of them, by modifying the directions for a festive forest garland into individual tannenbaums. Their favorite part was choosing from a variety of green scrapbooking papers that I'd found at the craft store. Some of the trees were ornately decked with buttons and glitter and gems; others had a more natural look.
After a break for hot chocolate and sugar cookies in seasonal star, tree, and reindeer shapes, it was time for something frosty. Soon the table was covered with an army of dangling snowmen. An assortment of gingham and plaid ribbon and buttons made each a bit different than the next. Then one of the girls realized a missing element — hats. This set off another wave of creativity that left not a bare head in the bunch.
Before the glue was dry, Caitlin and Ellie were ready to make this an annual tradition. As we approach the busyness of December again, I'm glad I had the foresight to add the Christmas craft party to our holiday calendar before it got too overcrowded. In fact, I'd better add it now to next year's Christmas calendar.
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Christmas Craft Party
This is a gret Christmas Craft to make with the kids Hot Cocoa Cone http://www.ehow.com/how_5321457_make-hot-cocoa-mix-cone.html
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I love this idea! We have incorporated a kids ornament craft party into our annual cookie exchange, but this year we were having to cancel it since we are moving in December. This sounds like the perfect way for our daughters to invite just a few friends to see their new house and have some crafty fun. Thanks so much for the idea!
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We celebrate the holidays with a Ladies' Tea. All the females in the family are invited from the youngest 2 year old to the eldest 84 year old. We do a Yankee Swap and have tea and tea sandwiches and it's a load of fun for everyone.
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Wonderful idea! I like that it she kept it simple, only inviting a few friends and picking a couple a crafts. I am inspired to try this myself!
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We are "Nutty" around here! That is Nutcracker crazy, this is the 2nd yr we have had children in it. We are busy with it up to the 23rd! We decorated on Tday our homelife schedule has been recreated based on the Nut schedule. We only have next weekend off, I think we will just be hanging at home, hopefully I can sneak away to do some shopping though!
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We started hosting a Christmas Party the 1st year my husband and I were married seven years ago. The 1st year it was in our unfinished basement in our newly purchased home, with enough Christmas lights and liquor to make you sick. Seven years later it is a bit more civilized and has MANY kids! Thekids now outnumber the adults. Instead of beer pong we have cookie decorating and christmas crafts. It is something all of our friends and us look forward to each year. It is so interesting how the dynamics of the party morph each year as we do!
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I found the article helpful. It gave me an idea that would be fun to do in December with my daughter. Our tradition is my daughter helps me make cookies and candy. She's very excited this year.
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I love the tree garland! How beautiful. There are so many things we pack into our Christmas calendar, and I wouldn't have it any other way. In fact, I make a point of finishing the shopping early (I am for Dec. 1) so that we can have time to enjoy the holidays and remember what they're all about. I used to love going to Christmas Eve candlelight services at midnight, but for many years our kids were too young to stay up that late. They're old enough this year, though, so I'm thinking about it. We'll see. Luckily, our church has services at four different times on Christmas Eve.
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well im sort of new at all this but christmas is coming so i guess i will comment it! all of this will be 1 day a new thing to some of youm but follow the rules of the christmas crafty and you will have a well decorated home!
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