How-To: Spinning Tops From Plastic Bottle Caps
Sara of Creative Jewish Mom shares this brilliant and quick project for turning plastic bottle caps into spinning tops, perfect for Hanukkah games and general fun for kids and adults alike.
Holiday Projects
How-To: Quilled Holiday Card
By Ann Martin Learn to make two types of quilled bows to decorate a Christmas card. Even a small amount of quilling will add a touch of elegance. You’ll be able to create a batch of cards quite quickly, especially if they are made assembly line style. I find it makes the job go faster […]
How-To: Advent Calendar With Window Punchouts
Jan over at Daisy Janie created a really cool advent calendar that lets participants punch out small windows to reveal their daily treats. She writes: Without numbers, it looks modern and lets the person punching out each window decide which route to take through the 25 Days of Christmas! I love that! You could make […]
Modern Holiday Paper Crafts
Of course these awesome paper crafts are courtesy of the midwest’s own Chris Gardner. He’s got two new projects up on Curbly – modern holiday paper crafting for garland and ornaments. Yes, yes, yes.
How-To: Customized Drawing-Free Ornaments
Julie from LoucheLab takes a visit to Esty’s The Storque and shares her project to make customized drawing-free glass ornaments. Julie writes: The idea for this ornament came about back in June, when I did a demonstration with Pebeo at the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn. There were a lot of people who tried the […]
How-To: Make a Clothespin Menorah
Jessica at Scrumdilly-Do shows you how you can make a clothespin menorah with your kids. It’s a fun way for them to learn about Hanukkah with no fire involved!
Make Your Own Lego Kingdoms Advent Calendar
If you’re like me, you probably missed the boat on the Lego Kingdoms Advent Calendar for the 2010 holiday season. Here in metro Detroit, they’re impossible to come by. That got me and Lego Maniac Rachel Hobson thinking – why don’t we make our own?! I took Rachel up on the challenge and decided to […]
