Simple Christmas Crafts

OH NO! It's that time of year again. Christmas Break! The kiddies are home, and the weather outside is frightful. What are we gonna do? I hear ya. I am a father of 2 and I work at home. Usually, Christmas break is a time where I get nothing done unless I put the kiddies in front of the boob-tube all day. How bad of a father does that make me? Well I tried a new game plan last year that totally worked, I got the kiddies interested in simple arts and crafts for the Christmas season.

I found some "Simple Christmas Crafts" for my then 5 year old daughter. I turned my breakfast table into a craft station, I would help her make a couple of the Christmas Craft of the day to get her started, then get her to make 20-30. We just did very simple Christmas crafts that a 5-year-old could do easily, and cheaply. We made Christmas tree ornaments that were actually little Christmas trees made with 1 jumbo popsicle stick, 5 or 6 small ones, some sequins, glue, glitter, and pipe cleaners. Too Cool. We also made poinsettia ornaments just using clothes-pins, a coffee-filter, a sparkly pipe-cleaner, some glue, and some red water-color paint. As a reward, a few days before Christmas, I got them a small tree that they could decorate with their home-made ornaments, the ones left over after they gave most of them away as gifts, that is. We had a BLAST and I got some work done.

This also worked with my Sunday School class. I teach a class of about 20-25 kids in the 2-5 year old age group, and they really enjoyed these simple Christmas crafts as well, probably even more because they were proud to give them to their parents after class. Try it out this year, get creative and let your kids be creative. They get rewarded for their efforts and you get rewarded with some P&Q not to mention quality time with the kids.