Before Christmas, everyone tries to prepare delicious dishes, buy gifts, and create a magical holiday atmosphere at home. Traditionally, stars, angels, bells, and candles are used to create a Christmas atmosphere. Decorated Christmas trees still stand in homes by Christmas, but themed decorations continue to appear on store shelves to emphasize the Orthodox holiday.
Some of them can be made by hand, and besides, there are also edible crafts that kids will love in any case.
#1: Salt Dough Stars
Stars have become a symbolic decoration for Christmas because the birth of Jesus Christ is associated with the rising of the first star in the sky.
According to tradition, on the evening of January 6, people sit down at the table no earlier than the first evening star rises.
Do-it-yourself salt dough stars will add to the Christmas mood and will be the best decoration for this holiday.
To make stars from salt dough you will need the following materials:
- flour - 2 cups;
- salt - 1 glass;
- lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;
- water;
- parchment paper;
- baking pan (large and small stars);
- fine sandpaper;
- acrylic paints in gold and silver;
- paint-contour;
- glue;
- beads, rhinestones;
- clear varnish;
- decorative cord.
To make stars with your own hands:
- Mix flour, salt and lemon juice in a deep bowl. Gradually pour in water, stirring the mixture at the same time. Bring the dough to a smooth elastic state, like plasticine.
- Roll out part of the dough into a layer no more than 2 centimeters thick.
- Cut out stars with pastry molds and make holes in one beam for fastening to the tree. Roll out the rest of the dough as well.
- Place the figures on a baking tray, having previously covered it with paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 80 degrees for 3.5-4 hours. Check that they do not burn.
- After baking, the finished stars need to be processed with fine sandpaper.
- Cover the stars with silver or gold acrylic paint. Use contour paint to draw patterns to your taste. You can decorate with beads and rhinestones. To fix the decor, cover with transparent varnish.
- Cut a decorative cord or ribbon and thread it through the holes in the star. Hang it on the tree.
#2: Edible Christmas Crafts: Chocolate Decorations
Edible openwork figures can be made quite simply. Simply apply melted chocolate to the stencil using a pastry syringe: white for snowflakes, black for Christmas trees. Refrigerate until cool, then remove the figures from the paper.
You can use these decorations to decorate New Year's baked goods: cakes and cookies for the New Year's table
#3: Sweet Sleigh
Many people love sweets, but it is not interesting to give just a pack of cookies or candies. But if you decorate your favorite candies in a bright themed gift, it will be interesting and beautiful.
To make sled gifts you will need to buy:
- multi-colored lollipops with curled ends;
- chocolates in brightly colored wrappers;
- several large candies;
- satin or foil bows;
- artificial Christmas tree branches;
- small Christmas tree balls;
- decorative braid or ribbons;
- beads;
- small cones;
- artificial snow;
- glue gun.
Christmas sleigh - step by step production:
- The first element needed for the future sled: a ribbon or tape. Place it on the table. Now place two lollipops with bent ends perpendicular to the ribbon, like runners of a sled. Then the candies will be fastened with a ribbon.
- After that, we choose a large chocolate bar, which will become the bottom of the Christmas sled and place it on the lollipops. The rest of the sweets should be laid out in the form of a pyramid. The sled and sweet load should be secured with a ribbon or tape for integrity.
- Unfasten small branches from an artificial tree and gather them into a small bundle. Attach beads or red berries, balls and cones to this branch. The composition can be covered with artificial snow or glitter and attached to a gift bow.
- Attach the decoration to the sled and the sweet gift is ready!
#4: Edible Christmas Crafts
Kids love bananas and sweets, and if you combine one with the other, you will have time to keep the kids busy eating such a dessert while you are busy with holiday preparations. And perhaps they will even help in making banana crafts, because bananas in chocolate glaze are very easy to make and can be decorated in a variety of ways.
To prepare Christmas glazed bananas, peel the bananas and cut them into halves. You can also add other fruits that you have in the refrigerator. Thread the halves of the fruit onto wooden skewers and dip each one in chocolate and sprinkle with any topping of your choice: coconut flakes, chopped nuts, crushed candies, and other edible sweet toppings.
In addition, children can make cute snowmen from bananas. Cut bananas, grapes and other fruits, and let them make various tasty characters with their help.
#5: Fireplace from boxes
Of course, if you have your own house and a fireplace in it warms you up on winter evenings, then this option is not for you. But what if there is no fireplace in the apartment, but you want that magic with lights in the interior? You can make a fireplace with your own hands and quite quickly and inexpensively! Maybe someday you will be able to install a real fireplace. The main thing is to believe, and you can make a wish.
To make a fireplace you will need:
- several cardboard boxes (they are probably left over from buying equipment or food, or you can get them from a nearby store; these are often simply thrown away as disposable containers);
- scotch;
- glue;
- stationery knife (cardboard is easier to cut with a knife than with scissors);
- scissors;
- self-adhesive film imitating brickwork (or you can paint it on white paper with paints, if desired; there are also wallpapers with this pattern on sale);
- white paint;
- garlands;
- foil;
- small logs;
- New Year's socks for gifts;
- brushes;
- tinsel and other New Year's decorations.
Making a Christmas fireplace:
- Cardboard boxes should be folded in the form of an arch based on the size of the space that you decided to allocate for the future fireplace, as well as the number and size of the boxes. Use tape to connect all the parts.
- Cover the fireplace with self-adhesive paper with a brick pattern or wallpaper with such a pattern. You can paint it by hand if you have the time and desire.
- We paint the corners white.
- The logs need to be wrapped in foil. If there are no pieces of wood, they can be imitated from any other material - cardboard or paper.
- Let the craft dry and place the logs with the garland in the fireplace.
- The decor of the finished fireplace now depends on your imagination: New Year's tinsel, Christmas bells and socks will give your fireplace a festive mood, and in the evening, when you turn on the garland lights, you will have the most magical fireplace!
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