| Do you and your family spend time making | | | | Spending time with your children on activities that |
| decorations at Christmas? Have you ever thought | | | | they enjoy is always a good thing and at |
| why you like to do that? The main reasons why | | | | Christmas you can all make something. They can |
| people make Christmas ornaments are the | | | | hang their ornaments with pride on the Christmas |
| pleasure to be had in making them, the spending | | | | tree for all to see. It almost doesn't matter what |
| of time with your children to create something, | | | | you make, we have made paper angels, gold |
| the ability to choose your own ornament and the | | | | stars with glitter around the edges for the table |
| materials and colors to make it with. You may | | | | as well as more complicated decorations that |
| also choose to make Christmas decorations as a | | | | require time for paint to dry between coats. You |
| gifts, this can give much pleasure to make and | | | | could all make your own place settings for the |
| give a gift with love. | | | | Christmas meal. |
| When you choose to make Christmas | | | | Having the ability to choose your materials means |
| decorations, it is something you can involve your | | | | you can be more creative. Do you want a red or |
| children in, not matter how old they are. There is | | | | gold theme this year, or maybe silver or blue. You |
| something for everyone. The preschool child can | | | | might like to be ultra modern and make fish for |
| be given some simple paper crafts or gluing to | | | | the tree or more traditional with baubles filled with |
| make a reindeer or angel, the older child can | | | | cello, or candy or tinsel. There are so many |
| make some stars with glittery beads and you can | | | | materials to choose from wood, glass, painted or |
| choose from an array of ideas what to make. I | | | | not, paper, metal, straw, material, tinsel or natural |
| have often purchased wooden shapes and | | | | (pine cones, holly and mistletoe). |
| allowed my children to decorate them however | | | | It is entirely up to you how you choose to have |
| they please, they may not do it the way I would, | | | | your Christmas decorations looking. That is, after |
| or the traditional colors, but they had fun doing it! | | | | all, the main pleasure of having handmade |
| They remember the time you spent with them | | | | Christmas ornaments in your house. Well that and |
| more than anything. | | | | the time shared with your family in making them! |