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Making a gingerbread shade of paint requires you to mix your own paints together in a very particular way. Make a gingerbread shade of paint with help from an experienced crafts expert in this free video clip.
Certain types of frosting really go well with a nice batch of fresh gingerbread cookies. Learn about a great frosting recipe for gingerbread cookies with help from an eHow food expert in this free video clip.
Making a gingerbread girl is always easier if you break it down into a series of manageable steps. Make a gingerbread girl in steps with help from an eHow food expert in this free video clip.
How you portion out a dinner plate depends entirely on a few key things. Find out how a dinner plate should be portioned with help from a classically-trained chef with experience in both World class restaurants and private dining companies in this free video clip.
Orange cranberry sauce isn't necessarily the most difficult thing you'll make all week. Find out how to make easy orange cranberry sauce with help from a specialty food expert in this free video clip.
Putting silverware in little stockings makes a really cute Christmas table decoration. Learn about putting silverware in little stockings and other Christmas table decoration ideas with help from a family entertainment specialist in this free video clip.
Red or green frosting is a great way to get into the holiday spirit around Christmastime. Get a red or green frosting recipe for Christmas with help from an experienced baker in this free video clip.
Reindeer and Santa cut out crafts are a great opportunity to spread a little holiday cheer in a creative way. Make reindeer and Santa cut out crafts with help from a graphic designer and illustrator in this free video clip.
Any great Christmas cookie platter is going to have a few key elements. Design a Christmas cookie platter with help from a professional chef in this free video clip.
Christmas cupcakes work well as desserts for the holiday season. While there are many festive ways to decorate a cupcake to fit the Christmas atmosphere, a Christmas tree is one way to blend both the winter season and the holiday together. Kids especially love to decorate cupcakes frosted like a Christmas tree. There are a couple of techniques you can use to make a Christmas tree cupcake, each involving different methods of using a piping tip.
Gingerbread men are popular around the winter holiday season with their spicy flavor and inclination for people to decorate them in all sorts of ways. Creating Marine gingerbread men requires a few basic colors of frosting and an image of a Marine in uniform to guide your decorating. Once the gingerbread men are made, decorating them is a project that the entire family can get involved in. If you have a member of the Marine Corps in your family, consider creating gingerbread men to honor the sacrifices they make for our country.
Gingerbread is an architectural style marked by early-Victorian exterior embellishments such as ornately milled brackets, balusters, transoms and gable trim. Gingerbread brackets are used primarily as adornments but may also be incorporated to provide structural support. Making your own ornamental brackets requires some experience using woodworking tools, including a saw, a drill and a scroll saw. If the brackets will be used as outdoor porch embellishments, they can be cut from 1-inch-thick milled clear lumber. The finished brackets must be sealed or painted with an outdoor-grade paint to resist moisture damage.
Gingerbread man crafts, especially popular during the Christmas season, give children and adults alike an interactive activity to work on together. The smell of the cinnamon gives your home or classroom a warm, pleasing scent, which adds to a festive, holiday atmosphere. Once completed, the finished project doubles as a decoration or ornament, or in some cases, also can be eaten.
Christmas is a time for food. Christmas parties and Christmas day are filled with treats, goodies and calorie-rich foods. The urge to overeat on Christmas can be nearly overwhelming. Overeating is never a good idea because it can lead to weight gain and lethargy. One of the best ways to avoid overeating on Christmas is to employ a food strategy before the big day.
Spice (and spike) your holiday cider by adding a bit of bourbon. Whether you’re out tailgating or prepping for your in-laws, this sweet festive treat will warm you up from the inside out.
Gingerbread houses are a beloved holiday tradition. However, oversized gingerbread cookies and sticky royal icing are not the easiest media with which to build. If you yearn for the cherished visage of a gingerbread house but dread the sugary mess that often accompanies it, recreate the look with cardboard and standard art supplies. Not only is cardboard the appropriate color for the project, it is easier to trim and embellish than a cookie. Best of all, cardboard gingerbread never perishes or attracts sneaky midnight snackers.
Build a house, make a man or keep it simple with traditional circles - regardless of their size or shape, Heather Bertinetti’s honey gingerbread cookies are the perfect holiday treat.
Whether you're trying to help create holiday cheer or a stylish decoration for the kitchen or another room inside the home, bell candy canes are colorful ornaments that complement a wide array of settings. Because they're made with bells, they can also double as hand ornaments, which can be carried around and jingled at different outdoor events during the holiday season.
Like reindeer, moose are part of the deer animal family called Cervidae. With their large muzzle, long legs and wide, flat antlers moose are a distinct image that can be incorporated into Christmas candy cane crafts. Project ideas range from partial to fully edible decorations that can made by the whole family.
Whether to meet your diner's dietary specifications or just a new twist on an old holiday ritual, there are a number of different ways to create meatless Christmas dinner menus. A number of different products are made commercially that actually mimic Christmas standards like turkey or ham. Other dishes can be made by scratch that are just as hearty and eye-appealing a roast turkey coming out of the oven.
Candy canes are festive holiday treats that can be used for artful displays, decorations and gifts for friends and family. They are available in a variety of colors and sizes, giving you several options for your creative edible projects. Using basic craft supplies, elementary kids can use their imaginations to embellish the candy cane projects with glitter, gems, beads and ribbons.
Create adorable holiday season hair accessories with just a little bit of ribbon and a plain hair clip. Make the candy cane shaped-hair accessories from coiled red and white ribbon into any size candy cane you like. Embellish tiny alligator clips with a single, small ribbon candy cane, or make a flamboyant, festive headband, covered completely with the candy cane embellishments. The Christmas hair accessories make a great gift for a little girl and also let you show off your inner child and love for the holiday season.
Explore the lore of a mischievous little cookie that tries to outsmart the townsfolk he is running from. The Gingerbread Man taunts the people and animals he runs from by demanding that they try to catch him and bragging that no one can. In the end he is outsmarted and learns a valuable lesson. Recreate this story by making a Gingerbread Man book for kids to read and color on their own.
Whether your taste leans toward the elegant or the whimsical, you can create a breathtaking tablescape for the holidays. Use shades of blue and shimmering silver in combination with your finest China when you set a formal dinner table, and you will be sure to impress. For a casual, but no less cheerful Christmas dinner table, play to your inner child, using brightly colored decor. You don't have to relegate yourself to only one project. Implement one for your formal dining room and the other for your breakfast area.
Imagine your kitchen filled with the scent of cookies in the oven. It's no secret why baking batches of Christmas cookies is an annual tradition in some homes. You do not need to be an experienced baker to make your own Christmas cookies with icing. Whether you have been baking for years or never set foot in the kitchen, try your hand at making simple sugar cookies with royal icing.
Dip-dyed dinner plates are a fashionable way to add color to your table. The dip-dying process creates free form shapes on the dinner ware. Several designer companies offer dip-dyed lines, but the process is easy, even for beginners. The best place to make your own dip-dyed plates is a local ceramics shop. They offer a wide range of unglazed plates or greenware. The shop will also fire your work, protecting the plate from moisture.
An edible Christmas cookie tree centerpiece is as practical as it is decorative. If you're planning a holiday party on a tight budget, create table decor that also serves as desserts. Make or buy star-shaped cookies and arrange them into a Christmas tree shape as a creative and delicious table centerpiece. You can customize the look of the tree using frosting and other baking items. After enjoying the centerpiece throughout dinner, guests can munch on the cookies.
Over time, using silverware with your dinner plates can cause scuff marks, especially if food is being picked at or scraped off the dinner plates. These marks can make your dinner plates appear old and lackluster. This can be frustrating if you value your dinner plates and want to keep them looking new. With an eraser and powdered cleanser, you can remove silverware marks from your dinner plates.
When you want a simple and natural way to feed the birds that visit your yard, a cranberry rope is the way to go. While birds enjoy an assortment of seeds, they also flock to partake of fresh fruit like cranberries. Once you get your cranberries, you probably already have the other items you'll need at home to complete the project.
If you have any old dinner plates that you no longer use, there are a number of creative things you can do with them. With a little bit of time and ingenuity, crafting enthusiasts can turn their worn-out dinner plates into eye-catching wall clocks and candleholders. Regardless of which project you choose to undertake, you may need to drill a hole in the middle of the plate in order to get started.
On November 2, Mexicans celebrate a holiday called El Dia de los Muertos, or The Day of the Dead. On this day, deceased loves ones are invited back to the world of the living through special alters built for them. A common practice is to make sugar skulls that are elaborately decorated and given as gifts or placed on the altar of a deceased individual. These skulls are not to be eaten as they are often decorated with nonfood items. To celebrate with edible skulls, mold dark or white chocolate in special molds, designed just for this occasion.
Vintage dinner plates are often unique or one-of-a-kind pieces. Consequently, careful cleaning is of utmost importance. Avoid putting vintage dinner plates in the dishwasher. Soft water may permanently etch their surfaces. Hard water may leave spots. The safest way to wash porcelain or ceramic vintage plates is with a mild soap solution and a gentle hand.
Gingerbread has been around since the 11th century when European crusaders brought ginger root back from the Middle East to flavor and preserve bread. Europeans eventually began to cut the bread into shapes and added sugar. However, it is believed that gingerbread houses became popular in the 1800's when they were mentioned in Grimm's Fairy Tales. The edible craft eventually migrated to America and remains a 21st century holiday pastime, with gingerbread houses evolving to castles, cottages and many more. Most of the decorations for gingerbread castles are left up to the imagination, but they are most often edible candies.
Plates are more than just useful for eating, they are often works of art. Many people collect plates and prefer to show off their collections, rather than eat off of them. The most ideal way to display a plate on the wall is to set it upon a shelf. You can glue it to the wall, but any glue strong enough to hold the plate in place could also damage the plate and wall finish. Collectible and valuable plates should not be glued to the wall.
Invented 350 years ago, candy canes were originally straight and white before they were striped in the familiar red and white. You can make your own candy cane ornaments in a variety of colors with pipe cleaners and beads.
A floating cane is a magic trick where a cane appears to float between your legs without any support at all. It will bounce up and down with your hands visibly far away from the cane. Making a floating cane trick is a very simple process and requires only basic materials; getting the trick to work properly may take practice in learning to move your body in a specific way to have the cane seem to move up and down in a magic way. With a cane at your disposal and some time in front of a mirror, however, you…
From delicate houses to sturdy men, gingerbread has been used for several hundred years in Europe and around the globe as a dessert for shaping and decoration. Spiced with a variety of flavors, most notably ginger, the bread lends itself to icing and is structurally sound enough to support the weight of candy pieces. Decorating a gingerbread game is as simple as decorating a house, and can be as elaborate or as simple as you choose it to be.
Gingerbread houses are a wonderful way to celebrate the Christmas season. By using pieces of the cookie that were baked into specific shapes, you can assemble and decorate an entire little house using frosting and various candies for supplies. Dormer trim is used over windows and doors on certain gingerbread houses, and can be created yourself at home using the proper dough preparation techniques.
Paste is a preschool and kindergarten crafting staple. It enables children to make their artistic ideas come to life. However, many young children do not understand that store-bought paste is not edible. Even worse, you may not have paste handy when your children are feeling creative. If you want to make nontoxic paste for those creative moments, you can do it with just two everyday ingredients and a few minutes of time.
Trees and shrubs contribute much to a landscape. Aside from their obvious aesthetic value, trees and shrubs increase privacy when grown as screens, block wind, create sound barriers and help reduce energy costs by creating cooling shade in summer. Adding to their appeal, some species even have edible foliage. correctly identify the plant before eating any leaves, as many tree and shrub species look alike and some species contain toxins.
The Christmas season presents endless opportunities to gather with friends, relatives and colleagues at a variety of functions. In addition, it can also present many quandaries about what to wear to which function. When you have a Christmas banquet on your calendar, you may wonder what to wear to look your best.
Preschool children enjoy candy canes as sweet treats, but they also make a useful craft material. Keep the edibility of the candy cane intact, though, because it’s going to be difficult to tell a child he can’t enjoy a piece of candy. Use only nontoxic materials in your crafts to protect the children from poisoning.
Christmas parties for children are about coloring, singing, playing games and enjoying some holiday-themed food. When planning a Christmas party for your kindergarten class, you can prepare a variety of fun food and treats they will enjoy. Prepare some of the food before the party, and have some treats ready for the children to create themselves.
The medieval jester that provided merriment in a king or queen's court in medieval times lives on through television and film tropes. The role of the jester was to provide comic relief and entertainment through storytelling, comedy and physical performance. Part of the jester's appeal was his bright and outrageous style of dress -- which often mocked positions of power -- such as a floppy crownlike headdress and loudly decorated cane or staff. While a jester costume can be arranged in a variety of authentic ways, there are fewer options for decorating a jester's cane accessory. Creating a jester's cane…
One of the most attractive and utilitarian parts of a cane is its handle. Cane handles may be simple in design or intricate. The cane handle is often what people notice first. Custom-made canes may be purchased, but the price is often high. Use a few basic woodworking tools and techniques to create a custom cane handle, saving the cost of purchasing a professionally made cane.
The sweet, hard candy sticks known as candy canes are a Christmas tradition. Candy canes have red and white stripes, but candy manufacturers produce new colors for this Christmas treat every year. If you want to paint candy canes as part of your next craft project, watercolor works well for creating pastel candy canes, but you create darker colors with acrylics paints.
If you have received an ugly sweater as a gift you have faced the dilemma of what to do with it. While wearing a sweater you find ugly may seem an odd solution, consider hosting or attending an ugly sweater party. An annual ugly sweater party at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, Canada, has popularized this trend over the past several years. You can embellish and alter your ugly sweater to make it even uglier in order to make a splash at your ugly sweater party.
You can use gingerbread man imagery when you bake holiday treats without actually making gingerbread. Instead of baking ginger and molasses-infused cookies, shape gingerbread man cakes in any cake flavor you desire. Whether you want to craft mini cakes or bake one large gingerbread man, cake will prove as formidable a medium as gingerbread cookies. After you cut the cakes into man-shape pieces, decorate the cake or mini cakes with traditional gingerbread man details to realize the classic image.
When using a cane, if the height of the cane doesn't fit properly, than its use becomes minimal. You need to make sure that a cane's height is right so that you can get the support you need. Having a cane the right height will also improve how good it looks if you are using it as an accessory.
Christmas is a time to share joy with those you love. It is also a time to feast. Multi-course meals consisting of warm comfort foods can keep you cozy on a Christmas night. When planning your dinner menu think about food pairings and the types of meals that complement one another to create a diverse spread on the table.
