How to Make a Christmas Blessings Jar
A Christmas blessings jar can help your family remember the true gifts of the holiday season. While many websites and craft fairs offer their own blessings jars, making your own Christmas blessings jar is easy and inexpensive. Crafting the Christmas blessings jar with your children's help is an activity that unites the whole family, which is a blessing in itself. Filled with blessings and opened on Christmas morning, the blessings jar can be a family tradition for years to come. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Glass or plastic jar or vase
- Glass paint
- Paintbrush
- Craft glue
- Glitter
- Ribbon
- Silk foliage
- Hot glue
- Small box
- Slips of paper
- Pencil
Instructions
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Clean a large glass or plastic jar, removing any bits of glue or paper label that remain behind. Jars for mayonnaise, spaghetti sauce or pickles work well, but you do not have to use a recycled food jar. A glass vase is a good choice if the opening at the top is large enough for your hand when you reach in to take out the blessings. Let the jar or vase dry completely before attaching decorations.
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Decorate your jar or vase with holiday-appropriate touches. Paint the interior of the jar with glass paint in shades of red, green, blue, gold or silver. Create a flurry of shimmering snowflakes by dotting craft glue on the exterior of the jar in snowflake patterns and sprinkling glitter over the glue. Tie a festive ribbon around the opening of the container, and use hot glue to attach silk holly or poinsettias around the bottom. There is no set of rules for decorating a Christmas blessings jar; choose the embellishments that look and feel right for you.
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Set the Christmas blessings jar on a hallway table or on your living room coffee table by the first of December. Include a small box with slips of paper and a pencil on the table, then encourage family members to write at least one blessing for which they are grateful every day leading up to Christmas. While your family opens gifts on Christmas morning, remove the blessings from the jar and read them aloud.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also keep the jar out until New Year's Eve, to start the new year with a reminder of your blessings.
References
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