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Children love making crafts for the holidays and as gifts to their parents and/or family! These crafts make great keepsakes and will bring back fond memories in the years to come.

FELT ORNAMENTS - Use felt to cut holiday shapes traced from cookie cutters. Use green for trees, gold for stars, brown for gingerbread men, etc. Decorate with rick rack, buttons, glitter, etc. Punch a hole at the top and use red or green ribbon as a tie. Idea: Have students write their name in glue and stick glitter to glue. These make great Christmas tree ornaments and keepsakes!

Step-By-Step Christmas Creche By Leana Lane / Abingdon Press With a little help from mom, dad, or teacher, young children ages 4 to 6 can make their own Christmas creche. Step-by-step and day-by-day, your children will learn the biblical story of Christmas as they interact with the making of Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the innkeeper, shepherds, angels, wisemen, donkeys, oxen, camels, trees, and stars. At the top of each page is a Scripture reference that adults can read to the kids as they are making the characters in each nativity scene. A fun Christmas activity for the whole family!

Fun with Gingerbread By Laurie Latour / Future Christian Homemakers Enjoy building a complete gingerbread house to enjoy all through the holidays. Using the proven recipe provided, this activity will add fun and excitement for everyone in the family. Full-size patterns are included, along with easy-to-follow instructions and decorating ideas for gingerbread men, ornaments, and a no-bake gingerbread house.

Ornaments: Designs for Coloring By Ruth Heller / Grosset & Dunlap Ruth Heller was a premiere designer and illustrator for children. Ornaments is part of her Designs for Coloring series for children ages 6 to 8. Get into the Christmas spirit by coloring all of the unique and detailed designs found in the 31 pages of this coloring book. Give as a gift to spread the Christmas cheer!

Christmas Activities, Crafts Grades K-8 By Carole Marsh / Gallopade International Celebrate this joyous holiday, which embraces Jewish history and Christian beliefs. The stories, trivia, and activities in this fun book include international traditions, activities, crafts, recipes, holiday songs, and much more! This is a great book for learning about traditions (and building new ones) at home or in the classroom. Ages 6-14. Softcover, 32 pages.

December Arts & Crafts, Grades PreK-K By The Mailbox Book Company With a book for every month of the school year, you can simplify your approach to arts and crafts! in each book you'll find a month's worth of fresh art activities to extend your curriculum. Crafts are conveniently grouped by seasonal and monthly themes so you'll always have the perfect art activity ready when you need it. This colorful arts-and-crafts collection is easy to use and a great companion to our monthly idea book series and our monthly reproducible book series. Features: clear step-by-step instructions convenient materials lists reproducible patterns full-color illustration of each finished project handy teacher tips Some of the themes: Gingerbread Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa Toys Snowmen Preschool/Kindergarten. Softcover, 32 pages.

Star Cookie Cutter By Ann Clark Ltd Traditional tin cookie cutter makes baking fun! With sturdy handle and decorative recipe card attached. Made right here in New England. 4.5" approximately.

Fun-to-Make Crafts for Christmas By Boyds Mills Press Children and adults alike look forward to Christmas and Halloween, and the crafts in these handy books will help everyone prepare for the excitement. From homemade ornaments and spooky crafts to special Christmas gifts, these books have plenty of fun projects (150 each) to make the holidays festive. Full color. 63 pages, softcover.

Angelina Ballerina: Tip-Top Christmas Crafts By Katharine Holabird & Helen Craig / Grosset & Dunlap Angelina Ballerina shows her fans how to create more than 20 tip-top Christmas crafts for the whole family to enjoy. There are step-by-step directions and beautiful photographs for making ornaments, treats, decorations, and more! And with holographic foil on the cover, 16 gift tags, and a sheet of stickers, this book will be a Christmastime favorite! Recommended for ages 4 to 8.

Create A Christian Christmas Tree By Joyce Belt / Legacy Press Have you been looking for a way to put more meaning into your family's Christmas celebrations? Let Create A Christian Christmas Tree show you how to make symbols from the Bible that effectively proclaim your faith. Just gather some common household items and follow the easy instructions to shape beautiful ornaments that tell the story of God's love-from the Old and New Testaments.

Advent Arts & Christmas Crafts: Prayers & Rituals for Family, School & Church By Jeanne Heiberg / Paulist Press This book has step-by-step instructions for creating dozens of decorations and gifts for the holiday season, using simple materials. It is a perfect resource for families, parochial schools and Sunday schools.

Creating Holiday Greeting Cards, Grades PreK-3 By Peggy Gwinn, Randy Womack & Diane Haddon / Golden Education Center Kids love getting and making greeting cards on holidays; this reproducible book is filled with full page cards ready for children to color and give away! With large illustrations and cute phrases, the full size pages can be either mounted back to back or cut out and pasted upon construction paper. Contains 22 cards for Mother's Day, Christmas, Birthdays, Easter and other major holidays. For preschool through 3rd grade.

Redeeming the Season: Simple Ideas for a Memorable and Meaningful Christmas By Kim Wier & Pam McCune / Tyndale House Co-authored by two mothers who were searching to bring more meaning to their own family celebrations, this book offers ideas that are sane, simple and original. At times both hilarious and heartwarming, the authors' own family stories plus easy-to-use ideas inspire readers to examine their own traditions and consider ways to make Christmas both memorable and meaningful.

Make-A-Christmas Stocking By Lauri The season's all the merrier with a stuff-it-to-the-top stocking that kids ages 5-9 lace and decorate themselves! An economical party craft or sugar-free party favor. Included in the kit is a laceable felt stocking and mouse finger puppet, a ball-tipped needle, yarn and extra felt pieces to personalize your Yuletide keepsakes. Use scissors, white craft glue and holiday spirit to assemble your stocking. Ages 5 and up.Stocking size: 9" x 6"; easy to mail gift.

Creating Holiday Greeting Cards, Grades PreK-3 By Peggy Gwinn, Randy Womack & Diane Haddon / Golden Education Center Kids love getting and making greeting cards on holidays; this reproducible book is filled with full page cards ready for children to color and give away! With large illustrations and cute phrases, the full size pages can be either mounted back to back or cut out and pasted upon construction paper. Contains 22 cards for Mother's Day, Christmas, Birthdays, Easter and other major holidays. For preschool through 3rd grade.

Ceramic Holy Family Paint Set By Dicksons Convenient paint-your-own nativity set includes the Holy Family in three ceramic white figures with six colors of paint and one paint brush. Figures range to 5" tall; fully detailed; non-toxic; recommended for children over three years of age. Packed in blister pack, a pre-Christmas craft for home, church, or school.

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