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Christmas tree veggie platters are a great way to spread a little holiday cheer in the most delicious way possible. Make Christmas tree veggie platters with help from a Health and Wellness professional in this free video clip.
Mexican cinnamon twists require you to start out by heating some oil to 350 degrees. Make Mexican cinnamon twists with help from a food host and private chef in Los Angeles in this free video clip.
Star ornaments can make a really great project for a wide variety of different occasions. Make star ornaments at home with help from a distinguished crafts expert in this free video clip.
Crafting a reindeer bell ornament is a great way to ring in a little holiday cheer. Find out about crafting a reindeer bell ornament with help from a crafts expert of fifteen years in this free video clip.
Live greenery and Christmas ornaments make great decorations for your dinner table. Decorate your dinner table with live greenery and Christmas ornaments with help from an award-winning designer in this free video clip.
A reindeer ball ornament craft is a fun, creative way to spread a little holiday cheer. Make a reindeer ball ornament craft with help from a crafts expert with over fifteen years of experience in this free video clip.
A cinnamon sachet is a great opportunity to spread a little holiday cheer around Christmastime. Find out how to make a cinnamon sachet for Christmas with help from an elementary art teacher in this free video clip.
Christmas ornaments with scientific themes don't have to be endlessly complicated to make. Find out about easy-to-make Christmas ornaments with scientific themes with help from an elementary art teacher in this free video clip.
Glass Christmas ornaments need to be stored in a very particular way to make sure they last throughout the year. Store glass Christmas ornaments with help from a family entertainment specialist in this free video clip.
You can turn a toilet tissue roll into a Christmas star ornament craft in just a few basic steps. Learn about toilet tissue roll and Christmas star ornament crafts with help from an experienced art educator in this free video clip.
Cardamon is a spice that is used a lot in Scandinavian and Indian cooking. Find out how to make sweet dough for danishes with help from a professional chef in this free video clip.
Making salt dough Christmas ornaments is a lot easier than you might think, especially if you have the perfect recipe. Get an easy salt dough recipe for Christmas ornaments with help from a crafts professional in this free video clip.
Making a calzone with a pre-made dough requires you to keep a few very important things in mind. Learn how to make a calzone with a pre-made dough with help from a chef in this free video clip.
With Christmas just around the corner it’s the perfect time to start creating your own holiday crafts to adorn your home. Nothing says “Christmas” more than a festive tree. You can use a toilet paper roll, cotton balls and some glue to create the base of your decoration. With some basic crafting supplies at your disposal, you can turn it into a beautiful Christmas tree.
Decorate holiday tables with candy Christmas tree centerpieces for benefit dinners, office parties or family celebrations. Use Jolly Ranchers, which have yellow and clear wrappers, allowing the color of the candy inside to show through. Choose just red and green Jolly Ranchers to capture the holiday colors, or go with a multi-colored candy tree. When the party is over, guests can pull the sweet treats from the tree to take home.
Old-fashioned alphabet blocks make a charming table-top Christmas tree for a nursery, or as part of a display of old-fashioned toys. Or use one of these trees as the centerpiece for your holiday table or buffet. Order a new set of blocks, or comb thrift stores and garage sales for charmingly faded and scuffed older blocks. Keep the decorations simple to allow the beauty of the blocks themselves to shine.
Angel eye projectors are a customizable feature that can give your car a unique lighted look at night. When you turn the headlights on, your headlights will appear as if there are halos inside the lamp unit. The effect was first introduced by BMW, but car enthusiasts can make their own unit or buy a kit for their particular model and make of vehicle. The whole feature consists of a projector rod with scratch cuts along the rounded surface that projects the light in a halo appearance.
Christmas ornaments are a standard part of holiday decor for people who celebrate the holiday. Oversized ornaments come in handy for some specialty decor situations, such as dressing up an extremely large Christmas tree or the telephone poles along a popular downtown street. There are extra considerations to keep in mind when using oversized Christmas ornaments, such as safety, durability and whether they might blow away if used outdoors. The items holding the ornaments must also be strong enough to hold the weight of the decor.
Decorating a Christmas tree with handmade ornaments makes it instantly unique and creates a holiday memory that won't fade. Adding delicate crocheted stars to your tree is a versatile way to put your personal stamp on the decoration. A tree decorated with matching stars in metallic or pearlized threads and white lights is understated and sophisticated. Or add crocheted stars in pretty colors to a tree decorated in traditional ball-shaped ornaments for an old-fashioned, homey look. This pattern is simple enough that you can make as many as you like, to add the perfect touch to your Christmas tree.
Homemade ornaments bring a level of personalization and charm to the holidays that most store-bought ornaments cannot rival. Sculpey Polyform clay is designed to be easy to shape into any design you desire; you can flatten it into disks or mold it into three-dimensional figures. The Polyform website suggests using Scupley UltraLight for Christmas tree ornaments because it is light enough for slim branches to support easily yet strong enough to survive the rest of the year in storage.
You can take a regular light bulb and turn it into a great ornament in just a few moments. Learn about homemade Christmas ornaments that can be made using light bulbs with help from an author, magazine editor and lifestyle expert in this free video clip.
Ornaments are a time honored tradition when it comes to decorating a Christmas tree. Decorate a Christmas tree with ornaments with help from an author, magazine editor and lifestyle expert in this free video clip.
The Christmas-themed levels are part of the "Angry Birds: Seasons" pack and add 25 challenges. Even if you complete all the levels, there is still the added challenge of finding the golden eggs hidden all over the game. You can find one of the eggs inside a chest standing in the middle of one of the original levels, but opening it is not so simple -- at least not for the computer version of the game. While those with touch-screen devices only have to tap the chest a few times to open it, most computer players need to employ some…
There's something magical about a Christmas tree decorated with colorful ornaments and twinkling lights. Add a special one-of-a-kind touch by making your own painted Christmas ball ornaments. Drizzle and swirl colored ink or craft paints in clear ornaments or decorate the ornaments with colored calligraphy inks or liquid paint pens.
As the holidays approach, Christmas-themed crafts are coveted by both children and adults. Sustainable, creative and appropriate for all ages, homemade ornaments make use of unwanted scrap paper -- turning it into colorful, recycled paper stars you can proudly display. String many of these sparkling stars together to adorn a festive Christmas tree, or give a single ornament as a holiday gift to a friend or relative.
Painted Santa ornaments add a personalized touch to Christmas decor. Whether portraying a full profile of Santa or just his bearded face, paintbrushed Santa ornament craft ideas can be found for all ages. Projects use a wide range of designs and base materials including plaster, wood, natural and recycled materials in portraying the iconic image.
Throughout the year, children and adults look forward to the holidays and festive Christmas decorations. Evergreen trees play a crucial part in decorating for Christmas. Creating a Christmas ornament out of evergreen tree parts captures both traditional smells and sights of the holiday season. Both tree branches and pine cones can be jazzed up with some holiday spirit to create lovely ornaments that can adorn the Christmas tree for a beautiful, yet simple, decoration.
When you are decorating your Christmas tree for the holidays, you may feel frustrated by how expensive Christmas tree ornaments are when they are purchased from a department store. One solution is to make the ornaments yourself using inexpensive materials. For example, use soft velvet fabric and Styrofoam balls to make festive and beautiful Christmas tree ornaments. You can find the inexpensive materials at any arts and crafts supply store.
No Christmas tree is complete without a snowman ornament; you can make your very own with just a light bulb and some paper mache. Repurpose a regular incandescent light bulb for the base of the ornament. Flip it around so the screw is at the top, forming the head of the snowman. The paper mache protects and strengthens the glass, and creates a porous surface for decorative painting. This is an ideal beginner's craft that the whole family will cherish.
Polymer clay is a versatile medium that can provide holiday craft enthusiasts with myriad project possibilities. One polymer clay project that can be whipped together in an afternoon is a chic, gold-accented Christmas tree about the size of a coffee mug. Simple to make, the tree can be used as a table decoration or filled with candy and given as a gift.
Making ornaments is an effective Christmas season activity for keeping your children entertained while producing inexpensive and personal handmade ornaments for the Christmas tree. Teach the children the Bible story about the angel Gabriel visiting Mary as a part of the craft to give it a meaningful touch. The crafts can range from actual depictions of angels to drawing angel imagery, such as halos and wings, depending on the artistic abilities of the person creating the ornaments.
Creating homemade decorations for a Christmas tree is an easy way to save money, create a unique look for your tree and bring the family together for a project. A large bow is one such decoration, and can be used in place of a star at the top of the tree, or tied to the ends of branches to create a country Christmas theme. With just a few inexpensive items from a craft store, you can create this unique decoration in little time.
Polymer clay is a modeling clay ideal for making everything from miniature figurines to holiday ornaments. Polymer clay is easy to work with and can be hardened in your oven, making it an ideal material even for beginners and children. Using polymer clay, you can create and paint angel ornaments that will look good on your holiday tree or hanging in your window during the holiday season.
Transform your empty paper towel tubes into a festive paper version of the Christmas tree. Place the trimmed tree that sits on a snow-white plate in your child’s bedroom for a non-breakable decoration during the holidays. Use this craft project as a way to spark the Christmas spirit with a group of children, and then add to the good cheer by giving the Christmas trees to residents of retirement homes, hospital patients and homeless shelters.
Transform your dining room during the Christmas season into a rustic yet festive space that warmly welcomes friends and family to gather and enjoy time together. Make the table the showpiece of your rustic Christmas dining room by decorating it with live greenery and ornaments. The live greenery will fill the room with a fresh aroma and the Christmas ornaments will add hints of color, creating a design that appeals to the senses.
Decoupaging is a simple project that customizes and personalizes many objects. Styrofoam balls work well for decoupage projects due to their uniform shape and convenient size. Decoupaged Styrofoam balls can be used as holiday ornaments, window ornaments, mobiles and even classroom models. They can even be given as gifts or party favors.
You can use saguaro cactus ornaments to create a Southwestern theme for holidays and parties or just to complement a Western theme in your home. Save money by creating your own saguaro cactus ornaments out of fabric, clay and paper. You can add saguaro cactus craft-making to a Southwestern birthday party and let your guests take home their creations to decorate their own homes.
Kids love to make Christmas ornaments for the family tree. Photo ornaments are great gifts for aunts, uncles and grandparents because they are a photo history of what each child looks like during the years. Digital photography has made it very easy and inexpensive to make photo ornaments, as you can even print the pictures at home, rather than take them to be developed. Resize the photo smaller or larger to fit into the handmade ornament.
Unfortunately, as soon as you cut a Christmas tree from its roots, it begins to die. And because many Christmas trees are bought and decorated days (sometimes weeks) before Christmas, it's imperative to do whatever you can to help the tree last and look good through the holidays. An all-natural Christmas tree preservative will help keep your tree at its best for as long as possible, without introducing potentially harmful chemicals or fumes into the home.
Transform an ordinary blouse into a festive holiday fashion essential by adding a ruffled collar around the neckline that simulates the appearance of a ruffled Christmas tree skirt. Choose a fabric that coordinates with your own Christmas tree skirt for a matching accessory and then make the ruffle on the blouse as large or as small as you like. Adorn the ruffle with holiday-themed iron-on images, or add an extra length of ribbon ruffle to the end of the fabric for an elegant addition.
Vintage refers to a style popular during a certain time period. When creating a vintage Christmas ornament, the object is to recreate the feeling or decor of a particular era. A vintage Christmas ornament from the 1800s would look different from a vintage 1960s ornament. It is possible to create a vintage tabletop Christmas tree using papier mache, and then decorate the exterior of the tree with wrapping paper, to depict the desired era. The trick is finding the appropriate wrapping paper.
Gingerbread ornaments liven up a tree with a sense of country charm. This craft project is easy to do on your own, but you can also get the whole family involved and let everyone make an ornament that represents themselves. Decorations can be individualized, with buttons, beads and rhinestones being only a few of your options. With a little felt, needle and thread or craft glue -- and lots of patience and love -- you can make ornaments that will last for Christmases to come.
Christmas is a wonderful time for crafting for both children and adults. Homemade ornaments can look beautiful hanging from a Christmas tree. Foam balls wrapped with ribbon are easy to make, yet can look unique and festive, depending on the materials used. This project is simple enough for the kids to join in on the fun. So making several ornaments for gifts, and a few for yourself, will not only entertain but will take a short period of time.
Snowmen are the universal symbol of the winter season. Made from balls of snow and the creativity of the children who build them, these jolly ice men are a staple of holiday cheer. Although traditional snowmen are made outdoors with fallen snow and carrot stick noses, you can create your own snowman using an old light bulb and some craft supplies.
Transform your run of the mill Christmas tree into a crafter's dream project. Styrofoam balls can be inexpensively turned into handmade ornaments to embellish your home during the holidays. Ideas for this easy to handle material include an iconic three-balled snowman and a glittering golden pear. The snowman utilizes the whiteness of the Styrofoam to form authentic looking snowballs, while the golden pear is constructed with numerous rows of golden beads.
Decoupage is the art of applying papers to an object to create a collage of colors and designs. It is commonly used with magazines or newspapers, but around Christmas, you can replace them with decorative wrapping paper. Using Styrofoam balls, the Christmas decorations can be hung as ornaments, create a stocking stuffer or be placed in a decorative bowl for a Christmas meal centerpiece.
Styrofoam comes in a wide variety of shapes that can be used as a base for handmade Christmas ornaments. You can add color, sparkle and texture to Styrofoam and create custom ornaments for your tree. Before you begin, choose a shape you like and add an eye hook from the hardware store to make the ornament easy to hang and display. Choose glue based projects if you are making ornaments with small children; bigger kids and teens can apply decorative elements using pins as well.
The holiday season is a great time to help your elementary school class, Scout den or other youth group put together some festive ornaments. Drinking straws are a versatile craft item that you can use in many different ways. By weaving the straws together, you can help your young charges make snowflakes, stars or reindeer antlers that they can hang proudly on their family Christmas tree.
Fill a decorated tree with fragrant rosebud ornaments for an elegant party, banquet, wedding reception or Victorian Christmas. The fresh rosebuds will add a natural beauty to the tree decorations. Allow the flowers to dry for a keepsake ornament to commemorate the day or family gathering. Pass the ornaments out to departing guests as a small token of appreciation when the event is over. The small ornaments can be hung or placed on the branches of the tree or a wreath.
If you have decided to switch your holiday tree trimmings to a new design or color, don’t toss out your old glass ornaments. Repurpose your outdated, chipped or mismatched glass ornaments into a glamorous new bauble wreath. Coordinate the colors of the glass ornaments wreaths that work for different holidays and seasons, such as pastels for spring and Easter. Use metallic shades for a wreath that is a lavish addition to any decor.
