Crafts for family vacations

Children, adolescents and young at heart, love the holidays and there is an almost limitless number of crafts that children can do to keep busy, especially when the weather is bad, and I'm home from school. Many projects with common terms found around the house, to be made.

Paper snowflakes are always a favorite and all you need is white paper, scissors and glue, and glitter can. Fold the paper in half, half again and again until aTriangle. forms in small denominations to explain carefully, have a nice kind of a snowflake. If you want to have the glue and glitter, the children so that they are a bit 'more elaborate. They also make beautiful decorations on the ceiling and windows to hang for the holidays.

Recycled paper - let the children cut the parts of the map from the message, and pasting them on the front with the construction of folded paper or light cardboard, they can send postcards to friends and theirFamily. Ribbon, glitter and other objects can be beautiful decorative accents.

Ornaments / gift tags - by cutting out pictures of the cards in various shapes (stars, circles, etc.), maybe even using scrap booking scissors on board, some ribbon and glitter, ornaments are cute for the tree that can be used as plates Gift.

Candy dish - cut a hexagon flat cardboard and then six pieces from Christmas card fronts to try (the most beautifulPart of the image on the form), the cone a bit 'wider at the top than the base for the pages. Cover all the pieces with clear contact paper and punch holes along all edges, evenly distributed. Sew the pieces together with tape or wire, and you have a box of chocolates only. Let the children experiment with different shapes and sizes.

Styrofoam ball snowmen are a simple project. Stack and glue together (to assist with pieces of toothpick) different sizes,and decorate with buttons, or scrap pieces of felt for eyes and mouth and buttons. A nice hat for the snowman, place a line of standard size styrofoam coffee cup upside down on a flat sheet. In the oven at low temperature (under adult supervision). Make the shell begins to melt carefully reduce and reshape itself in a funny hat. Remove carefully, let cool, and can be painted and decorated and glued the head of the snowman.