by Santaelf | Nov 21, 2019 | Children's craft, Christmas crafts, Christmas today
I came across this finger puppet set and grabbed it with no particular purpose in mind. A day later, my daughter needed a quiet day to recover from an unexpected overnight hospital visit and this kit was a great activity for us. With the incentive that the finished...
by Santaelf | Dec 6, 2017 | Children's craft, Christmas crafts, Christmas gifts
This year, I decided on some decorated glass baubles for my daughter to give to her classmates – we usually make something rather than just giving the kids another candy cane! Shiny bauble materials I got the idea by seeing some pretty glass baubles on a...
by Santaelf | Nov 9, 2017 | Christmas crafts, Christmas Lights/Decorations
As well as all the decoration ideas for a community group Christmas tree, I collected some ideas for the tree itself and for making the most of the decorating experience. So here are those ideas in another post for you 🙂 Again, many of these ideas were inspired by the...
by Santaelf | Jun 16, 2017 | Children's craft, Christmas crafts
Last Christmas, my daughter’s grade 1 class made some Santa sleighs and reindeer in their art classes. I think they are very cute, and a clever idea on the part of their teacher. I love the Santa face and beard some of the children created! The reindeer are very...
by Santaelf | Nov 27, 2015 | Children's craft, Christmas crafts, Christmas gifts
My daughter and I made some Christmas stars for her to give as gifts to her kinder friends last year – like for my son, I wanted something other than candy canes and it is so much nicer to make something. Making Christmas stars I was inspired for these stars by...