| Making your own Christmas decorations is a | | | | from brown pipe cleaners bent to the shape you |
| wonderful way to celebrate the Christmas season | | | | desire. |
| and connect with others. Handmade Christmas | | | | For adults who want to get creative and design a |
| decorations can be given as gifts to friends and | | | | more sophisticated type of ornament, there are |
| family or they can be created with another | | | | other methods. You can head to a craft store |
| person or a group of people as an art project. | | | | and pick up blank, white ceramic ornament balls. |
| Get out the glitter, glue and crafts and start | | | | While you are there, buy acrylic craft paint and |
| creating fun Christmas decorations. | | | | paint brushes. As you make ornaments for each |
| Use the Christmas season to teach kids how to | | | | person on your Christmas list, be sure to make |
| make one of a kind Christmas decorations using | | | | each one special for that person. Images you can |
| their own creative nature and talents. They can | | | | paint are gingerbread men, candy canes, Santa |
| make something spectacular to take home or | | | | Clause, a Christmas tree and much more. |
| give as a gift to their loved ones. One very easy | | | | If you are an outdoors type, skip buying plastic |
| Christmas ornament you can make with kids is | | | | holly or mistletoe! Both of these can be found in |
| the reindeer on a clothespin. What you do is take | | | | the wild, and it's worth keeping your eyes open |
| a clothespin and use craft glue to stick a little red | | | | during the year so you will know where to find |
| pom-pom for his nose and little googly eyes on | | | | them when the time comes. |
| top of the clothespin. The antlers can be made | | | | |