Inexpensive Christmas Gifts
Christmas is a time of joy, piece, and giving. It is also a time of being broke. Adults often think that the idea of making Christmas gifts is only for children who do not yet have their own money to buy gifts. However, with a little bit of ingenuity, some clever shopping, and a fair amount of free time, you can make some very grown up do it yourself Christmas gifts.

12 Creative Ways to Recycle Your Christmas Cards!
Don’t throw your Christmas cards away! There are so many creative ways to use your Christmas cards, many of which you can do with your kids. We have brought together some ideas below.

A European Christmas
With the holidays right around the corner, it’s hard not to reminisce our childhood memories and holidays of yesteryear. In each culture, there are differing values and traditions which are celebrated in different ways.

Choose Now a Holiday of Significance … (and Less Stress) for Your Family
Get more significance out of your holidays this season by creating and enjoy some new family traditions. You’ll be amazed how Christmas comes alive, right before your very eyes.

Easy Christmas Crafts for Children
Nothing brings out the kid in you better than sharing some together time with your own children and there’s no better time to do it than during the holiday season!

Christmas Gifts Kids Can Make
How kids can make adorable, yet practical Christmas gifts, with secret messages, out of pebbles.

5 Scrapbooking Secrets for the Holiday Season
These 5 scrapbooking secrets are sure to bring out the best in all of your albums and pages. Though inexpensive, they are the wonderful ways to add memorable value to the pages you will cherish and love for many holiday seasons to come!

Whatever Happened To Christmas?
“When I was growing up on our dairy farm forty years ago, the stores didn’t put up Christmas displays until the day after Thanksgiving. No one was really thinking about Christmas shopping before that,” said Ralph, author of the book Christmas in Dairy land (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm) (trade paperback; August 2003; $13.95). “In fact, my mother felt so strongly about it that she didn’t even like to hear the word ‘Christmas’ until after we had finished eating Thanksgiving dinner.”

Country Christmas Idea: Milkweed Pod Poinsettias
At first glance, milkweed plants and poinsettias don’t seem to have much in common. If you live in an area where milkweed grows wild, however, you can use the dried milkweed pods to make poinsettia ornaments for your Christmas tree. Here’s how:

New Ways to Use Old Christmas Cards
Forty years ago when I was growing up on our dairy farm in Wisconsin, my mother always saved the Christmas cards she had received in the mail. In those days, people sent many more Christmas cards than they do now.

Make a Phone Book Christmas Tree
I’m not sure who showed my sister and I how to make a Christmas Tree out of a phone book all those years ago, but someone did, and I it made my mother quite happy. Why you ask? Well, considering that we lived in a fairly good size town, the phone book was pretty hefty, and folding all of the pages to make the tree was time consuming… my mother got an early Christmas gift.

Decorate the Christmas Tree With Popcorn
Part of what makes Christmas so special are the traditions that get handed down from year to year. One of my favorite traditions is decorating the Christmas Tree with a popcorn garland. When I was younger we did this at home and at school. The toughest part about making a popcorn decoration is not eating the popcorn while you make it.

Christmas Trivia
Everyone enjoys the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping and decorating. Children love to write letters to Santa and get a reply with an envelope stamped “North Pole”. But even more fascinating is the origins of many of our beloved Christmas traditions.

Fragrant Christmas Shaping Dough
Let’s face it. Christmas is fun, and making holiday shapes with cinnamon dough will be a joy for everyone involved.

Construction Paper Reindeer
This one is a lot of fun for your children because it involves the use of one of their shoes, and both of their hands.

 

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