Make Your Own Christmas Art

Oh, what fun it is to make your own Christmas art today! Read more on how to make some easy and inexpensive crafts that your whole family will enjoy gathering around for! These are sure to bring Christmas spirit and joy to your family while you take the time to make them. Have fun!

Nativity Play-Doh

Mix up enough dough to start your own figures. To make play-doh, you will need:

1 cup of flour
1 cu of warm water
2 teaspoons of cream of tartar
1 teaspoon of oil
1/4 cup of salt
food coloring(if desired)

Mix all of the ingredients together, adding food coloring last, and stir on the stove over medium heat until dough becomes as smooth as possible. Remove from the pan and lay out on a heavily floured surface. Knead until it becomes soft and workable.

Shape the dough as ell as you can into human figures. Make the figures so they are gazing downward. make Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus, and three wise men. If you have enough dough you can make sheep, cows, and chickens, too. Place your figures on a baking sheet and bake at a low heat, about 150 to 200 degrees, for approximately one hour. Leave overnight in a warm oven(not turned on) . When dry and hardened, paint with acrylic paints. Let dry, and lace in your nativity scene.

Gingerbread Doorway

This is a cute and fun project for a group of kids or a classroom. Find a gingerbread pattern to trace, and copy as many as you need for each kid. Give each child a pattern to cut out. Get a bunch of little candies, such as m&m's, raisins, runts, marshmallows, red hots, whatever you want to put on. Let the kids glue them onto the gingerbread men as decorations, let dry overnight. Hang them up around the door frame for a special and unique decoration.

Pine Cone Christmas Trees

What you will need:
Pine cones
assorted beads, decorations, and small silk flowers
pop bottle cap
green spray paint
glue
tweezers

Spray paint the pine cone completely green and let dry. If you want, you can add glitter to the pine cone while it is drying to create a sparkle. When the pine cone is dry, turn it upside down and glue the bottle cap to the bottom of it, for the "tree trunk". Use the tweezers to dip the beads, flowers, and ornaments into a small amount of glue, and then glue firmly onto the pine cone.