Christmas decorating can become costly and often falls to one person in the family to do. Here are some ideas to make the process of adding that special touch a family event.
Salt dough ornaments: There are plenty of recipes on the Internet to make salt dough and you can use these to create handmade ornaments for your Christmas tree. Why not do hand- or footprints of your children and use them as gifts for the grandparents?
Sugar cookie ornaments: This a two-in-one treat for you and the children! Spend the day making sugar cookies and pick out a few to use as Christmas tree decorations. Remember to make a hole so that you can string it up and hang it.
Christmas pom-poms: Find any wool lurking in the back of your hobby cupboard and teach the family how to make pom-poms. You can play around with different colours and sizes.
Scrap ribbon tree ornament: Send the children out looking for sticks that are fairly straight. Get some scraps of material and tie them onto the sticks one at a time until most of it is covered, except for a small part at the base of the “tree”. Cut the ribbons so that it resembles a Christmas tree en hang it up. Voila!
Bottle cap snowmen: Save some of the bottle caps from your drinks and stick three of them directly underneath one another to a piece of ribbon that has been folded in half. Now the kids can decorate the snowmen and give them a little scarf with a small piece of scrap fabric.