Christmas Tree Balls

You will need

• Small Styrofoam balls
• tissue wrapping paper
• pip cleaner or rubber band
• Ribbon

Method

• Wrap tissue paper around the balls.
• Gatheri the ends together at the top. 
• Leave about three extra amount 4 to 5 cm or [2 inches] at the top.
•  Secure with rubber band or pipe cleaner. 
• If using a rubber band, tie a nice ribbon around to cover. 

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Hand Print tree

You will need 

• 1 poster board,
•  green paper, 
• yellow paper,
•  glue,
•  scraps of craft items to decorate with

Method

1. Trace and cut out ten hands on green paper
2. Cut out one star from yellow paper
3. Start gluing with one hand at the top of the poster board, with the fingers pointing down. This will be the top of the tree.
4. Glue remaining hands fanning out to make a triangle shape
5. Glue star on the top
6. Decorate with you choice of items. (scrap paper, beads, pom-poms, etc.)

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Bean Bud Buddy

You will need

• Old, clean sock
• Split peas or dried beans
• Yarn or ribbon
• Permanent marker
• Needle, optional

Method

1. Take your sock, and fill it up to the heal with beans or peas.
2. Tie it above the heel with your yarn, or ribbon.
3. With your permanent marker, draw a face, or a character. 
1. Or use a needle and yarn to stitch a face on.
4. You're done!

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Wind mill template

Wind Mill template

The size you desire the wind mill to be is determined by the size from the centre to the nearest edge measurement.





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To make a wind mill

You will need

• Colored card stock or construction paper
• Thumbtack or stick pin
• Pencil with new eraser
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Sequins
• pattern template
• method

1. Print the pattern onto plain copy or printer paper.
2. Cut the square pattern out, cutting on the solid lines.
3. Lay pattern on top of colored paper and trace the square. Cut out the square from the colored paper.
4. Keep the pattern square on top of the colored square. Either hold it in place with your fingers or tape it down lightly on two of the sides.
5. Cut through the pattern and the colored paper along the dotted lines but do not cut in to the center circle.
6. Use a thumbtack or stick pin to poke out the holes in every other corner as indicated on the pattern. Set the pattern piece aside.
7. Take one corner (one with a hole) and fold it toward the center of the square. Fold the next corner that has a hole and fold it toward the center on top of the first holed corner. Repeat with the other two corners with holes until all four are folded into the center. Glue the folds to each other and to the center. Hold together until dry.
8. Push the thumbtack through the center of the pinwheel and into the eraser of the pencil. Make sure the pinwheel isn’t touching the eraser or it won’t spin.
9. Glue some sequins to the flaps of the pinwheel and let dry.

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Dough Hand Print

You will need

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 cup salt
• 1 cup water
• Food coloring
• Ribbon
• Gold marker
• Wax paper

Method

1. Add food coloring to the water. I use pink for girls, blue for boys.
2. Mix all ingredients well, kneading until smooth. 
1. Dough should be pretty stiff, not soft or runny or it will fill with air bubbles when baking.
3. Form dough into a ball, of about what you can enclose in your two hands, and form into a round smooth ball.
4. Using a rolling pin with the dough on wax paper, roll out into as round of a circle as you can.
1.  Dough will be about 1.25 [1/2 inch] thick.
5. Press the hand with fingers splayed into the dough.  Make sure to press deep enough without going completely to the bottom. (When it bakes it tends to raise the hand print up.)
6. Put on a cookie sheet.
7. Use a chop stick or pencil, etc. to make two holes in the top about 1.5cm [1/2 inch] apart. 
1. These holes will be used to string the ribbon through.
8. Bake at 200 degrees for about 2-3 hours. 
1. Dough should be fairly hard but watch to see that it doesn't burn.
9. When they are done and cooled, use a gold marker pen and write the name and date (year). 
10.  Tie a ribbon at the top (blue or pink - or gold) to use as a loop to hang.

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Painting air dried clay

You will need

• matt paint or regular arcrylic paint thinned with a matte paint medium.

Method:

1. Apply to dried clay surface like you wood a wood stain.
1. Apply and wipe off the extra from the surface.
2. The grooves will fill on the impression as they catch the paint.
3. Leave to dry.

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