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As part of a Christmas party that my police substation is giving for
the kids that live in the housing project where I work, the kids will
make Christmas cards and ornaments. I need ideas for 2-3 simple
Christmas ornaments. Craft supplies need to be VERY simple and
inexpensive. Kids will range in age from 4 to 12. Any ideas would be
appreciated. |
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-what is the title of the craft book with those ideas, they sound neat
and easy to do. -Take styrofoam balls - 2 or 3 inch diameter. One ball per craft. You'll
need christmas-y material cut into 1 x 1 squares. Take the ball and poke
holes about 1/4 inch deep with a pencil all over it. Put elmer's glue
into 8-10 holes at a time (if you do more, the glue dries too quickly).
Put one square of material on the end of the pencil and push it down
into the hole with glue and gently twist the pencil out of the hole,
leaving the material. The 'pretty side' of the material should be 'up'.
Do this all over the ball, bottom too.
You can cut the material with pinking shears - makes a neat edge.
You can hotglue little christmas neat-oes on the top with a loop to be
able to hang the ornament.
I've done this with people from 6-86 and the younger kids seem to pickup
on it faster than the older ones! -i just came across a good idea for xmas decorations that kids can
make in a book i checked out from the library (you could probably
find more good ideas there, too). the idea was to use heavy
colored paper (probably more heavy-weight than construction
paper, but not as heavy as poster board--although the latter
would do well) and cut out outlines of familiar xmas subjects--
an angel, snowman, bell, etc. in the book these cutouts were
mounted on a slightly larger and less detailed version of the
same cutout, but having a slightly different shade of the same
color. this step could be omitted. the part that the kids
get to do is use the "dots" created from lots of action with
a hole punch (which the kids could do well, too, of course)
and glue them on as eyes, noses, decorations, etc. sort of like
using pieces of coal or rocks for a real snowman face. you
get the idea.
another one we're going to try doing every year is tracing each
of our kids' hands on a piece of felt, and decorating it. this
would be a bit more expensive than the first suggestion. |
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