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Halloween is a holiday most kids get really excited about. Why not? They get to dress up, they get to stay up late, and they get to eat candy. So, while you may not need to do much to get them in the spirit and mood of Halloween, a few easy Halloween crafts can never hurt. The following is a look at a few crafts ... Continue to Luminiers.

A clay pot reindeer is a wonderful decoration for the holiday season, and a fun craft to make with your children. It is a fast, fun, project that can keep you and your children entertained for an afternoon, and provide you with a cute holiday gift or decoration. The things you will need to make a clay pot reindeer include: A clay pot, 3-inch usually ... Continue to Clay Pot Reindeer.

Halloween is the holiday for goblins, ghouls, and ghosts. The following are a few fun crafts for making Halloween ghosts: Glue Ghosts: These are a lot of fun and can be used to decorate windows and other surfaces. They are easy to make, really cute, and only require some glue and some patience. What you'll need: White school glue. Most people think Elmer's. This works, ... Continue to Gluey Ghosts.

Clay pots are a lot of fun to make crafts out of. You can use them for all sorts of crafts, and they are cheap, and easy for kids to use. The following is a fun clay pot craft idea: Flower Pot Pen Holder For this craft you will need the following supplies: Paints: Choose whatever colors you want or that will best match the ... Continue to Flower Pot Pen Holder.

Christmas is a special time of year. Christmas is a time to show the people in your life how much you love them and it's a great way to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and to celebrate with loved ones. Christmas decorations are one thing that makes the Christmas season so amazing. From watching your children's faces light up when they see the Christmas tree go up to hanging the stockings, Christmas decorations truly make this a wonderful time of year.

Outdoor Christmas decorations are important to the holiday season. Christmas lights are wonderful whether strewn around your home or on trees, or both, to celebrate this wonderful time of year. This year, make some homemade Christmas decorations with your kids. Here are a few fun suggestions:

Plastic Snowmen

Have you been wondering what to do with all of those old shopping bags? Now you have something to do with them, you can create snowmen with them. You will need several shopping bags as you need to create three different-sized balls with them. You also need some extra shopping bags to stuff inside the snowmen. You can buy some wiggly eyes, red and black cotton balls and an orange nose for the snowman at your local craft store. Don't forget to get a miniature top hat for the snowman along with some metal string so you can hang it. Create several snowmen and hang them from a string of white or colored outdoor lights. This is a simple outdoor Christmas decoration that you can create with the kids during an 'indoor' day.

Wooden Candy Canes

While you are at the craft store, purchase some wooden candy canes that you can decorate with paint and lights. You can get small or large candy canes. Some candy canes are about 3 feet tall; they are great for the entryway to your home.

Santa Claus and His Reindeer

Creating Santa Claus and his reindeer with craft wire is another simple outdoor Christmas decoration. You'll need wire and white and colored Christmas lights. You will need a string of green, red, yellow and multi-colored lights. Shape the wire into a sleigh with a long straight line where you will glue the wire reindeer to it. Now, wrap a string of green lights around the straight line, this will be the reins that hold the reindeer together. Use red to line the sleigh. Once you have the sleigh and reins, attach the reindeer and Santa Claus; use white lights for Santa's head and beard and red for his body. You can use multi-colored lights for the reindeer. This outdoor decoration does take awhile to create, especially if you want it to be large enough to fit across a couple windows.

Candles

You can make candles out of some red and yellow lights, some wire and your trees. If you have 3-4 trees in a row, you can easily create candles and it will look spectacular. Wrap some red lights around the stump of the tree. Once you are about 3 feet high on the tree. Attach some wire in the shape of a flame. Wrap some yellow lights around the wire section and place it over the top of the red lights. This will appear to look like candles burning on the trees. If you want to make the flames look like they are burning, get some twinkle lights and set the timers to go off at different speeds. This will definitely give your candle trees a cool effect.

There are hundreds of craft projects you can do with some Christmas lights and little creativity. Include your kids in the decorating process as this is a magical time of year for them.

During the holiday season, decorating your home to share your love and joy during this time of year is important. You can purchase Christmas decorations from the store, or you can create your own Christmas decorations with the kids in a few hours. Spending a few minutes of your time with your kids during this busy time of year will mean a lot to them, especially if you spend time creating Christmas decorations. Here are some fun Christmas decorations that you can create with your kids:

Gingerbread House

The gingerbread house is one Christmas decoration that is enjoyed by all every year. Children love to get creative when they are helping with a craft project and giving them frosting and a bunch of candy and telling them to run wild is going to be one of the happiest moments of their lives. You can purchase a gingerbread house model from practically any store, but a fun way to create a gingerbread house is to build a small wooden one that you can clean and re-use each year. At the store, pick up gumdrops, M & M's, Tootsie Rolls and candy canes to use as simple decorations. Children will have a blast decorating the gingerbread house and many of them will enjoy eating all the candy off the house throughout the rest of the month.

Christmas tree

You most likely have a Christmas tree somewhere in your home, but how about adding multiple trees to your home this year? Instead of just going with one big tree, pick some small trees to add to other places like the bathroom, bedrooms, entry way and even the kitchen table. You can find some small ornaments to decorate each tree and you can also get some small strands of Christmas lights to bring some holiday spirit into any room. Allow your child to get a small Christmas tree for his or her bedroom and give them the opportunity to decorate it with whatever they like. Your daughter may choose to paint the tree pink and add some Barbies to it and this will be a long-lasting memory for her. Let your kids be creative with their own trees by giving them the opportunity to pick out their own lights and ornaments to decorate their tree.

Christmas treats

While you may not think that Christmas treats are decorations, they are actually an important part of Christmas. Christmas treats are a wonderful decoration to add to your kitchen table or another area in the home. This year, bake some gingerbread men and place them in a dish on the entryway table. This will fill the entryway with a tasty smell and it's always nice to receive a tasty treat when you open the door. The great part about making Christmas treats is that kids love to bake them. This is a great time for them to learn how to cook as you can have them read off the recipe and learn how to measure things. It's also a fun way to involve in the cooking process, especially if they would like to give treats to their teachers and friends.

Ornaments

Spending time making ornaments with your children creates a fun Christmas memory. You can purchase some glass ornaments from the store and fill them up with paint and tinsel or you can make an ornament from scratch. Make stars for the tree using Popsicle sticks and thread. This is a simple Christmas craft for kids and it's an easy way to decorate your Christmas tree with a little bit of personality.

Decorating your home for Christmas is a lot of fun. Children love to watch the Christmas decorations go up as this sets the mood for this festive time of year. Add joy and pizzazz to your old Christmas decorations by changing them up a little bit to make them stand out and look like new again. All of those ornaments that have been hanging on your Christmas tree for several years can be changed up a little bit to add a fresh, updated look to your Christmas tree.

Open up your box of Christmas ornaments and sort through them, tossing the ones that are broken. The ornaments that are worn can be repaired easily with a little bit of glue, tinsel, ribbon and fabric. Your old ornaments might be heirlooms, passed down from your grandmother or other people that mean a lot to you. If you can fix them up a little bit, you can pass them down to your children and other people that mean a lot to you.

If there are a couple of important or heirloom ornaments that are broken, glue them back together and use some fabric to cover the cracks. This way you can still display them. Do you decorate your Christmas tree the same way every year? Instead of getting new ornaments, you can make them look like new again by changing the color of the lights on the tree. If multi-colored lights are your standard tree decoration, switch your lights from multi-colored to white with green or white with red. Changing the color of lights will make your old ornaments stand out like new ones.

Another easy way to make your Christmas ornaments stand out is to decorate the tree with other things like tinsel, beads, bubble lights, flowers and feathers. Practically everything you can think of can be added to a Christmas tree to give it a new and unique look. Small stuffed animals are another great add to your Christmas tree, especially if you have smaller children.

Some of the other old decorations you can change include your Christmas carolers and nativity scene. With some fabric and paint you can make some new clothes for your Christmas carolers. Freshening up their faces with a little bit of paint will make them look new again.

Use your old Christmas wreaths to freshen up your home. Grab some new pinecones and glue them to your Christmas wreath. Get some new ribbon to tie a bow and glue it onto the wreath. You might also consider gluing some of your old Christmas ornaments to the wreath as this will make them appear new and it's a great way to get them off the tree so they don't you're your Christmas tree look dated.

Printing off a few new family pictures and gluing them to your ornaments, wreaths and other decorations is another way to make your old decorations new again. Family pictures are always welcome as they add to the spirit of the season. Place some photographs and ornaments in different rooms around the home such as the bathroom, the kitchen and the stairwell.

To protect your ornaments and to make sure they stay around for a few years, store them well. Use bubble wrap to pack the ornaments properly. Instead of using cardboard boxes, use plastic totes as they are more durable and less liable to crush under pressure. Pack your ornaments in an organized manner and label them so you don't have to dig when you are searching for a particular ornament.