Category: Crafts
Make Easter Eggs with Natural Colors
Many cultures color eggs to celebrate Easter and other holidays. It’s easy to experiment with natural dyes to color your eggs – you probably already have many of these in the kitchen. You can use these techniques on either hard-boiled eggs, or on empty eggshells that have been blown out and rinsed. [...] Read More »
Jungle Beads: A Great Holiday Gift
Made from recycled, varnished paper, jewelry made from colorful Jungle Beads make a great holiday gift. The people at Life in Africa are selling the beads to help feed war-affected children in Gulu, in Northern Uganda, and their 4-day international shipping policy will get them to you in time for the holidays if you order [...] Read More »
Make a Matchbox Advent Calendar
Advent Calendars are used to count down the days in December leading up to Christmas. This matchbox version is easy to make if you have the materials, and can be re-used year after year.
Materials: Christmas fabric or paper, cardboard, 25 matchboxes, foil or other decorated paper to wrap the matchboxes, string to hang [...] Read More »
Two Easy Ways to Make an Advent Calendar
Advent Calendars are used to count down the days in December leading up to Christmas. Here are two easy and quick ways to make your own Advent calendar:
Make a Paper Chain Advent Calendar:
Create a paper chain with 25 loops, creating each loop with a strip of paper that you can decorate with seasonal [...] Read More »
Make Holiday Lanterns from Cheese Containers
Here’s another easy way to make a lantern that you can light with a tea candle (careful!) or glow stick for festivals such as the Harvest Moon Festival or St. Martin’s Day. This will give you a cylindrical lantern that is easy to decorate in many different ways.
You’ll need: a cheese container -- the round, [...] Read More »
Make Holiday Lanterns from Milk Cartons
Here's an easy way to make a lantern that you can light with a tea candle (careful!) or glow stick for festivals such as the Harvest Moon Festival or St. Martin's Day. This is good to make with older children but will need supervision since it does involve some cutting.
You'll need: an empty [...] Read More »
Make Chinese Paper Lanterns
There are many holidays, such as the Harvest Moon Festival (Chinese, Vietnamese), St. Martin's Day (German) and Chinese New Year, in which Lanterns play a role. We're going to publish some ideas on how to make your own lanterns to celebrate these Fall and Winter holidays.
Easy Paper Lanterns
You need: colored construction paper, scissors, [...] Read More »
