These simple, yet festive craft ideas are so easy to make you could put them together the night before your holiday guests arrive. Even better, have the kids join in and you can get the crafts done and your house decorated in half the time.
PIPE CLEANER CANDY CANES
Materials:
Green pipe cleaners
Red pipe cleaners
White pipe cleaners
Directions:
Take two different colored pipe cleaners and match up the ends. Next, twist each pipe cleaner around each other all the way to the other end. Then, curve one end of the twisted pipe cleaners and presto—-instant decorative candy cane.
Another way to make these fun candy canes is to take two different colored pipe cleaners and match up the ends. Next, find the middle of the pipe cleaners and cut in half with scissors or wire cutters. Then, twist, curve and you’re done.
SNOWBALL ORNAMENTS
Materials:
Knitting needle or chopstick
Funnel
Clear glass ball ornament
Artificial snow
Silver glitter
9 metallic pom poms
Ornament hook
White craft glue
Paper towel
Directions:
Remove the hanger and cap from the ornament.
Wash and dry the outside of the ball completely with a paper towel.
Using a funnel, pour the glass ball 3/4 full with artificial snow.
Pour a small amount of silver glitter into the glass ball. Cover the opening of the bottle with your thumb and shake the ball to combine the glitter and the artificial snow. If they don’t mix together well just by shaking, take the knitting needle and use it to stir the glitter and snow. Some of the glitter will fall to the bottom of the glass ball and some will stick to the inside of the ball.
Replace the ornament’s hanger and cap.
Squeeze a generous drop of white glue on the glass ball next to the edge of the cap covering the opening of your ornament. Press one of the metallic white pom poms into the white glue and hold it in place briefly until secure. Continue adding pom poms around the cap until you have used up the nine pom poms. Hold the pom poms down until they adhere to the ornament. Let the glue dry completely before hanging.
Add a hook and your ornament is ready to hang.
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