Christmas Gift Crafts from Children

Christmas is a great time for giving and a great time to make Christmas gift crafts with your children to give to relatives or family members for Christmas. Having your child personalize a Christmas gift craft will be cherished for many years to come and when they get older, it is great to pull out that Christmas gift craft they made when they were little to bring back those memories of Christmas as well as remembering them when they were little. Here are some great Christmas gift crafts that you can make with your children to pass give as gifts to a parent, siblings, grandparents, and any other relative you would like to receive a Christmas gift craft from your child.

Christmas Gift Craft from Children:DLTK's Santa Claus Hand-print Craft

Making a Santa Claus hand-print craft from the DLTK's website will keep those memories of your child's hand-print during Christmas. Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Grandpa would love to receive this Christmas gift craft for Christmas. You will need white paint, red paint, black and red marker, thick card stock paper, ribbon, scissors and a hole punch. This craft is very simple. First, you will want to get your paint ready. A simple way to do this is to get a paper plate and put a little red on one part of the plate and white on another. You will also want to mix white with a little red to make a pink color for Santa's face. After you have your paint ready, paint your child's tip of the thumb with white paint. Next, paint the ball of the hand and the rest of the thumb with red paint. Use the pink to paint your child's palm and then white on the rest of the fingers. After the paint is all of your child's hand, place your child's hand on the card stock or construction paper. After it dries, use the markers to make a face for Santa (eyes, nose, and mouth). Cut a circle or whatever shape your desire around the Santa Claus and punch a hole in the top and put your ribbon through the hole and tie it so that the person receiving the Christmas gift craft from your child can hang it on the tree. You can see a picture of this craft on the DLTK's website.

Christmas Gift Craft from Children: Hand-print Christmas Apron

This is a very easy Christmas gift craft that your child can make. All you will need is a white apron and some fabric paint. There are many types of fabric paint you can get at your local arts and craft store. Great fabric paint is Folk Art Fabric Paint. The first step in creating your Hand-print Christmas Apron Christmas craft from your child is to paint their hands red with the fabric paint and place the hand-prints on the Apron wherever you desire to have your child's hand-print. Next, you can use either Folk Art Dimensional Opaque Fabric Paint or Fabric markers. You can write whatever you desire, but be sure and add Christmas and the year with your child's name to have the Hand-print Christmas Apron personalized. This is a great Christmas gift craft from your child that anyone will sure to love.

Christmas Gift Crafts from Children: Pine Cone Christmas Tree

Children will have fun making pine cone Christmas trees to give as Christmas gifts. You may live in an area where there are pine cones that are easy to find. If not, you can find them at your local arts and craft stores. You will need a pine cone that is full opened, a red soda bottle top, tacky glue, green paint, mini beads, and mini ribbons. First, have have your child paint the pine cone green. After the pine cone is dry, glue the pine cone to the upside down red bottle cap. Be sure the largest part of the pine cone is on the bottom. Next, take your mini ribbon and glue it around the pine cone draping it to look like garland around a tree. The last step is to take you mini beads and glue them on the tree. You can find many different kind of Christmas beads on the Artbeads.com website as well as the mini ribbon.

Your children will love making these great Christmas gift crafts for your family. Christmas is a great time of the year to spend with your children making Christmas gift crafts.

Sources and Resources:

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/Xmas/mhand-santa.htm

http://tinyurl.com/yzttsvw

http://www.thefind.com/crafts/info-fabric-paint-dimensional-glitter

http://tinyurl.com/ykb38m7

http://search.artbeads.com/?lcr=1&view=&q=christmas+beads&x=0&y=0

http://search.artbeads.com/?lcr=1&view=&q=ribbon&x=0&y=0

http://www.plaidcraftexpress.com/product/FolkArt+Fabric+Paint+Brush+On+2+oz.aspx

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