Help - have been volunteered to run the Christmas Fair Craft Stall...

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...and I'm not crafty in the slightest . It's a combined school, so maybe something for the infants to make and then something different for the Juniors? I was thinking about Christmas tree decorations but have no inspiration at all.

Please can someone suggest something fab?

You can make Christmas wreaths. Cut out loads of holly shaped leaves, or get the bigger kids to do it. Then sticj them on a round piece of card with the middle cut out and add some red berries for the finishing touch.

I know, I know!!!

I nicked an idea out of the archives.

Reindeer Food! You mix some bird food up with some sugar, maybe sugar that has been coloured with different food colours, pop it into little bags then tie on a poem tag that has a hole punch in the corner

REINDEER FOOD

Sprinkle on your lawn at night
The moon will make it sparkle bright
As Santa?s reindeer fly and roam
This will guide them to your home

Hobbycraft are selling cardboard ready to hang tree decorations which just need painting/glittering up etc. £2 ish for 20. Would be ideal for a quick make.

Or how about 3D christmas cards. Cut out 2 christmas tree shapes then make a cut a line through them (one from the top to the middle, the other from the bottom to the middle) so they slot together and stand up.

Ooh I like these!

Am going out shortly but any more ideas would be gratefully received (have to do more than one craft )

Thank you

you can make easy peasy snowflakes, just fold a piece of round white paper up (lots of folds so it is quite small) and cut pieces out of it, triangles, squares, cicrles anything! When you unfold it, it will look like a snowflake which can then be decorated with glitter.

The fabbest thing I ever saw was bowls made out of autumn leaves. I think they mixed up some sort of wallpaper paste type glue, dunked the leaves and then pressed them into bowl shapes, about an inch thick, and trimmed the edges a bit. You'd have to find a recipe or experiment a bit.

The bowls were really beautiful, lasted about a year, and they recommended that you plant bulbs in them after that, and then just plant the whole bowl out in the garden after the bulbs have flowered.

You need Jazymummy ! She is FAB at these threads

here some ideasEnchanted learning

Reindeer food

lolly reindeer looks better painted brown and add string to make into hanging tree decoration.

Door hangers

3d stars

Cinnamon dough for tree ornaments. Could paint with PVA glue to "varnish" but might stop the nice smell.

stained glass for older kids}

skribbles linked all the sites I would have used.
Ive made all of the items she has shown and they have all gone down really well with the kids at school.

Don't worry too much how they end up mums will buy them anyway .

I ran the craft stall at our school Christmas fair last year (4-11 yrs primary school. The most popular activity was decorating baubles. We got plain baubles from Poundstretcher/Wilkinsons etc and bags of glitter, sequins etc. We bought 60 baubles and they all went. We also did badge making and shrinky plastic keyrings but the baubles were the thing and even the littlies can decorate one to their satisfaction.

what did you use to decorate the baubles?

Thank you so much everyone, there are some really great ideas here. Will let you know how it goes!

Tobin, how much did you charge for the baubles? Sounds like a great idea.

Baker Ross Christmas craft section

Does anyone have suggestions for what to use instead of applesauce in the cinnamon dough recipe that Skribble did a link for or can I get applesauce in the UK?

You can buy jars of apple sauce, but I am not sure if its them same. We need an american to advise. I have never tried the recipe it just looked good.

Thanks, I'll look out for it in Asda.

You can get American applesauce in the UK. In London, I buy it at Partridge's (Duke of York/King's Road), but I'm sure it must be available elsewhere too. BTW, the brand I buy is called Mott's - and be sure you get the original, not the one with cinnamon added.

Sorry - been at open evening at school so only just getting round to looking at site again.
Re the baubles, we used sequins on a roll, gems, glitter, feathers and all those foil sequin-type things you can get in The Works/Wilkinsons or from the Baker Ross catalogue. We had some silvery thread to hang them up by. This was mine - my mum donated several rolls of lurid 70s stuff to me. We were a bit worried about the glue aspect as it could all have got a bit sticky but in fact Pritt stick largely did the job. As for charging, at the fair we have a no-cash policy so you can buy tokens (cloakroom/raffle tickets) for 25p each at the entrance and each activity/stall costs a certain number of tokens. I think we charged 2 tokens for a bauble and 4 for a keyring.
A word of warning about the reindeer food - it's a lovely idea but we've tried this before with mixed results. The little ones who couldn't read the tags and the older kids who couldn't be bothered, thought they were sweets and were a tad disappointed when they realised that they weren't. The result was a lot of seeds spread over the playground and scenes reminiscent of Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.

I see what you mean about the reindeer food perhaps best to target it at the parents or grandparents to produce on christmas eve as a surprise for younger kids.