Christmas Craft Fun

A while back I issued an invitation to the folks in my homeschool group.   Come join us for a craft day.  We'll make Christmas crafts...the ones that pop up on facebook so frequently.

Two families responded to that invitation but only one manged to make it here.      Having one family here made it easy for this introverted family to just relax and have fun.  :)      We had a blast.  

I had pulled up a variety of crafts that I found.   Some simple ones and some more complicated.

These were supposed to be hot chocolate, mints, marshmallow jars, but in this house we are somewhat flexible in the "this is what you should do" rules.

The children experimented with what they wanted to have in the snowmen and how to fit them all together. 

I loved what the children did with the pinecones.  One became an elf, another a Christmas tree.   The tree becoming an ornament for the tree.

A stuffed felt Christmas tree joined them.  I got this inspiration from the trees up at Fanshawe Pioneer Village that we recently went to. 

Our sock snowman proved a hit!   Check out how they are decked out.  :)  

I like offering options about how children should engage themselves in a craft and the variety is great is it not?  :)

if you want to know how to make them, check out this youtube video.

We ended up having a whole family of these delightful clay pot snowmen.   They all looked different, one had a baseball cap, another a pink hat, all had different faces and different head gear.  Seeing the creativity expressed was so neat.  :)

Christmas sleighs from candy canes and chocolate bars, and gob stoppers in a box.   Every single one made looked different, and one even had a man driving it.  :)   Fun to see the artistic designs of these children.  :)

These ornaments made using bits of crayon turned out to be a total hit.  I think almost everyone made one, except for the youngest who made an ornament using pony beads stuffed inside the ornament...it looked quite nice.  They were so easy to make, and the colours sometimes mixed in ways we didn't expect.   Its a very neat craft to make.

After a meal of spaghetti we finished off our night making gingerbread men.    It was a great afternoon and we look to be doing it again sometime.  :)