home made decorations

[lucysmam]

of the cut & stick variety that I can do with my almost 5yo dd over the weekend....... any ideas to go with snowflakes cut out from a4 white paper & paperchains made from old wrapping paper please?

You could try the crafts topic, you might have more luck there!

papermache snowmen/santa using balloons?

Oragami anything hung up on a string?

Salt dough decorations?

A great and easy one is 3 ice lolly sticks overlaid into a basic star shape - put a dob of glue in the centre and leave to dry. Then when it's dry, dip in runny glue then in glitter and leave to dry-easy, effective and fun

Oh and when I was looking I found a great website www.iChild.co.uk (don't know how to do links sorry!). Got loads of ideas on there and printable resources

The theimaginationtree.com it's got lots of ideas, we have just got some salt dough Xmas trees baking in the oven as I type.

Coloured felt. Wool. Darning needle. Cut 2 matching Christmas shapes out of felt, blanket stitch together.

You can then sew a loop of ribbon on the top with a normal needle and thread. You can also throw unicorn vomit lots of sequins and beads at it provided you use enough fabric glue

Thank-you, we did snowflakes & chains today and put some odd decorations in dd1's room. I like the lollypop star idea but don't think I've got any left in the craft bits box so will get some on Monday & add those next weekend.

We're going to string up some cotton wool balls tomorrow to look like snow in the window & I think we'll do some salt dough as well although not sure what or where for yet.

Will invest in some felt as well & attempt some sewing with her although I'm not very patient with things like that