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[MichelleMumsnet]

The team at Hobbycraft would like to hear about the Christmas arts and crafts activities you’ll be doing with your DCs this year.

Hobbycraft say, “We all remember our own special Christmas family traditions whether its making homemade decorations for the tree, helping bake the Christmas cakes, writing cards or simply the excitement of Father Christmas coming down the chimney! Here at Hobbycraft we’d love to hear about how your Christmas family traditions.”

So, what crafty Christmas projects will you be doing this year? Do you decorate the Christmas tree together? If you do, do you make your own decorations? Or perhaps you bake Christmas cakes and treats together?
Whatever you and your DCs will be making this Christmas, Hobbycraft would love to hear about it.

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MNHQ

Paper plate and doily angels with toddler DD and gingerbread biscuits with DS(6)

Looking for nice pinecones to spray and glitter for the tree, potato stamping plain paper for wrapping, making truffles and attempting to make some wintery wreathes

Tree decotations and lots of cooking/baking.

Tree decorations with lots of card, felt and glitter.
Biscuits, mince pies and fudge for gifts.

Decorating the tree.
Making mulled spicy apple juice.
Baking and decorating Christmas cookies.

Dh and I will be baking pannetone and stollen together. Dd and I will be making truffles and fudge. We also make paper chains and decorate cards. With Christmas music in the background of course.

We all decorate the tree and the house together, usually the week before Christmas.

DD is 3 and she loves all things crafty. We are already planning our gingerbread village, which she loves to decorate (if she doesn't eat all of the sweeties first!)
We are also planning on making a blizzard of paper snowflakes, as well as a herd of handprint reindeer Christmas cards for the nearest and dearest!
I'll have to see what kits I can find in store to see us through the rest of christmas!

My list is going to be pretty much the same as everyone else's.

We make paper chains. We sometimes buy printed ones but it's more fun to cut and make our own as then the DC can draw their own designs on.

Make Christmas cards.

Make salt dough decorations.

Paper snowflakes.

Food wise we usually make tablet, chocolate peppermints, and cookies.

Love Christmas time!

Similar to everyone else - cards, salt dough decorations, cut out snowflakes and paper chains.

We will also be drying out orange slices and treading them with dried cranberries to decorate our outside tree (and for the birds to eat!).

And we will also be using fabric paints and handprints to make a Christmas tree design on a apron to give to granny

Salt dough handprints - turn the handprint upside down & pain into Father Christmas's head - add hole / ribbon = tree decoration

Oh, and gingerbread house - sort of cross between craft and baking!

Now that my girls are older I intend to enrol them in the run up to Christmas helping me to get ready for the big day.

My oldest is crafty and will help with table decorations and present wrapping. We will be using plain brown paper but massing it up with metallic markers, ribbons and matching tags. She will also be making a centre piece for the table. She is going to collect things in our local woods and supplement them with bought items to make it look more professional.

My youngest will be helping to bake as she enjoys cooking.she is going to make homemade biscuits for Chrsitmas morning, peppermint creams to have with coffee after dinner and some homemade bread to have with our salmon pate as out starter.

We are thinking of making our own Christmas crackers but need some more ideas about what to put in the middle.

It will be all hands on deck between now and Christmas

This will be the first year where the children will be really excited and I'm so looking forward to doing lots of Christmassy things with them.

One of them will be the German tradition of baking "Plätzchen", little biscuits that the children can cut out with star or heart shaped cutters and then decorate after baking. Can't wait.

Lots started here

We make handprint wreaths (have 4years worth now!) love seeing the growth!
We also make a handprint tree for the wall

We are making mistleTOE footprint canvases too as gifts

Decorating glass candle holders for table center pieces

We will be making gingerbread men and muffins together and DD loves pasty so will help with the mince pies.

I'm planning two sensory tubs and the snow cloud dough from imagination tree.

And possibly some hand print art.

Very excited as DD is nearly 2 so much more into it than last year.

we love making things like snowmen made of Pom-poms of white wool, snow flakes by cutting out and folding paper.

We also do lots of upcycling projects so using last year's Christmas card to male tags for this year by cutting, punching holes and using colourful green red and gold ribbons.

This is the first year that i have been able to make christmasy things. My daughter is 15 months and i cant wait to get in the christmas spirt. We will be painting christmas decorations, Im knitting Christmas stockings with names and DOB on, and making feet snowmen, im sure i will find plenty other things to do when i see pictures of everyone elses little pretties.

I recently found the advent calendar my mum made us as kids - embridered pockets. So I'm putting little wooden figures for the children to turn into the nativity scene, raiding the scraps bag.

We'll be making our own cards . . . hope!

Dd is only 3 so we don't have craft traditions as such yet. Last year we made wrapping paper with paint and Christmas cookie cutters, it looked fab :) we have made some again this year.
This year we have made 4 cards so far. Hopefully we will get to make some decorations out of salt dough and I would like to make bunting.
We put the tree up together, and we make lots of treats!

We make the angel on top of our Xmas tree, paper cone and a photo of the DC for the face. And glitter - lots of glitter.

Apart from cookies, we like to make a few Christmas cards, crackers, some decorations, strings of father Christmas or some other motif cut of paper, paper chains, snowflakes for the windows, and the piece de resistance is the annual crib competition at school, always hotly contested...we did win one year!

Every year we make a gingerbread house, and my children decorate it with sweets, icing glitter etc.
we also make gingerbread tree decorations.

We also make Paper chains, snowflakes for the window and Christmas stars to hang from the ceiling.

I love doing christmas crafts with DD4, while DS1 attempts to eat our lovely creations (teething) :-)

We make, salty dough decorations with our hand prints and paint them as pressies for the grandparents, Christmas cards, tags, this year we made a wreath out of pinecones we collected on walks throughout October, paper chains and lots of baking.
This year we are also going to attempt a gingerbread garland after seeing it in hobbycrafts brochure

Love the idea of making your own christmas wrapping paper and using the cookie cutters Cherryjellybean. We will definitely have to add that to the list