Christmas craft ideas for the over 8s please

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Like to do a couple of things with my 3,this is what we'll maybe do at some point.Any other ideas.Seems to be harder to find simple things for this age group.

We'll make paper chains,Kelle Hampton's woodland creatures baubles,Usborne Big Book of Paper Things to Cut and Stick,Craftandcreativity Hama bead decs,Chris McVeigh free Lego ornament instructions.

We did The Artful Parents mini candy cane choc hearts last year but it involves a lot of choc- and mess.

Apologies for dire punctuation.

If you have foam sheets and thick card you can make a printing plate. I'm doing that to make cards - will most likely cut a Christmas tree shape out of the foam and stick it on the thick card, brush/roll paint onto it and stamp it on. If you're really careful about lining it up (the pieces of thick card will need to be exactly the same size) you can do a two colour print by putting some of the foam on each piece of card.

I'm then probably going to glue some nice shiny buttons on the tree to be baubles :)

Alternatively if you don't have foam you can stick random items to the cardboard in a particular shape - eg buttons, paper clips, coiled string etc. I believe that's called a collograph

www.channel4.com/4homes/how-to/craft/how-to-make-a-print-block that's the foam thing although they've used wood instead of cardboard

Oooo great ideas,thanks.

Forgot that foam printing thing,used to do it at school with my class,they looked fab after.

Acrylic took an age to dry though.

ooh, we made some fab snowflakes yesterday (although bigger than I expected)...hang on a sec, will root link out

3d paper snowflake

Easier with glue dots or a small stapler. & they're rather large when finished but look good.

(top tip, make sure the smallest curled round bit of paper faces the same way in all the sections of the snowflake )

What about a tassel angel or maybe decorating candles with sharpie pens. You can do it using a transfer process or I find it works ok with a pen directly.

Danish paper baskets, heart ornaments made out of strips of paper, quilling? Snow ball ornaments - cheap white acrylic yarn made into pompoms. Food items (marshmallows, Florentines, chocolate bark, spiced biscuits)? Tree decorations made of baked orange slices. Oranges with cloves stuck in them. One year I saw a craft thing in a magazine which involved using PVA glue to stick glitter onto tealights - was incredibly messy though!

How about salt dough hearts and stars? When we were 1st married with no cash all our decs were pine cone or salt dough based. They were gorgeous!