What craft-y Christmas Presents are you MAKING with your children?

[morningpaper]

Last year we made lots of clay christmas tree decorations with cookie cutters, painted them with metallic paints and holographic glitter and attached posh ribbon - was v. effective.

Need ideas for this year. What are you making with your children?

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

Last year did christmas spice biscuits with tiny festive cutters, and put in cellophane / ribbon

was v successful and ds loved it, will prob do some more

[morningpaper]

That sounds nice

Were they for Eating or Decoration?

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

eating, but you could make larger ones and cut hole and do the ribbon thing

or do you know that boiled sweet stained glass window trick?

[morningpaper]

oh yes I have Read about that stained glass window thing

The thing with biscuits is that they have to be a bit last-minute don't they? And I don't tend to SEE the relatives etc., it is generally stuff sent by post.

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

oh yes, I do see

we just baked biscuits for about 4 days solid and went round delivering them all to local friends and neighbours

it felt so damn christmassy

I will think of other makey stuff we have done

[morningpaper]

I am Tempted to buy these tiny boxes to decorate for people and perhaps put a small silver charm in each on a bit of ribbon like this one or this one

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

gorgeous

do you do Panduro Hobby? what an addictive catalogue that is, I had to give it up or go bankrupt

a very-well-known-on-here but not-so-well-known-in-larger-community thing IMO is the reindeer food (oats and glitter with appropriate sickly message attached)

it's a present for Christmas eve but people really like it when sent it by adorable grandchild

[morningpaper]

yes good idea about reindeer food

I think we are doing that for PTA christmas fete (have TOTALLY been sucked into THAT)

Have not heard of that catalogue, it sounds TERRIBLE, I might have to investigate further

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

yes I am not even crafting type

yet it sucked me in and spat me out again about 2 years later

i was doing decoupage boxes and all sorts

[PanicPants]

LOVE the Christmas tree charm. It's very cheap! Would you add ribbon to it?

I'm making cards this year with ds (2years) we are doing the footprint in brown paint, then stick on 2 eyes near toes, and a red fuzzy ball on heel to make Rudolf.

Last year we did the green hands to make a Christmas tree.

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

oh we have also got those calendar thingies from Baker Ross then print out appropriate picture outline on A4 card (I did pig for Chinese Year of Pig) get child to decorate and stick calendar doodah on

[oliveoil]

what is this boiled sweet malarkey of which you speak?

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

oh oh oh we have also done MARBLING with inks

piss easy and looks absolutely fabulous

if you can find eg a notebook with a plain card cover you can marble it, and it looks out of this world

[Countingthegreyhairs]

Do you mind me asking what sort of clay you used morningpaper and where you buy it? For my sins, I am running a craft stall at dd's school Christmas market ... .

[oliveoil]

(re those charms MP, my ex was called Noel and we do chortle at the number of cards we get with NOEL on them every year, what larks)

anyway, who do you give these presents to?

[PanicPants]

Ah yes, have re-read your post about the ribbon properly now!

Fab boxes for wedding favours (Getting married next year) So think I may steal that idea - cheers morning paper

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

boiled sweet, you cut a shaped biscuit then cut smaller circle out of the biscuit

put on baking tray (on greaseproof paper I think) put boiled sweet in hole and bake, it makes stained glass melted sweet effect in the hole

lawks get me, am not crafter type at all, honest

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

I give mine to any bugger who will stand still long enough to receive one

me and ds are into spreading the love at christmas time, we must drive everyone mad

[oliveoil]

I think I have seen that on Big Cook Little Cook!

arf

[LazyLinePUMPKINJane]

err....try small business ads

[LazyLinePUMPKINJane]

Franny, could I have your spiced biscuit recipe pleasE?

[ScaryScienceT]

We will make bath bombs, no doubt. I am pretty well set up for this, especially as I am also making them with my form at school for the Christmas bazaar.

[PanicPants]

Boiled sweet sounds fab. Any particular boiled sweet work best?

Am struggling to think of any - have images of cough candies!

[PanicPants]

How do you make your bath bombs SST?