Summer Craft Activites for Christmas

As the summer rolls along and you find you need something for the kids to do, here's what we do - we get our craft on!  We start on our Christmas presents for family, friends, teachers and just about everyone!

some ideas ----- 

• Collect rocks, wash them (that can take up an entire afternoon in the sprinkler!) and paint them.  Turn them into lady bugs, frogs, stepping stones, or some other wonderful creation for the garden. 
• Paint boxes and decorate them with glitter, sparkles, stickers, and stencils for treasure chests
• Take wooden dowels and make magic fairy wands attaching streamers, glitter and paint.
• Get some Christmas ornaments from the craft store and paint them
• Find some old tiles (or purchase one or two from the hardward store),  put handprints on them to make a trivet
• Take terra cotta pots and paint them  - thumb print designs, handprints, whatever you want. Give them with a package of seeds. 
• In the cheap bin at the craft store find photo albums and decorate the fronts of them with puffy paint, find pictures and fill them.
• Also in the craft store, find some rubber stampers, use them on brown mailing paper or tissue paper to  make holiday or birthday wrapping paper.
• Make soap - easy kits can be purchased at the craft store. let the kids decide the color and scent of the soaps. 
• On the computer, create note cards or thank you notes, and print them out on card stock.

Happy crafting!
(Merry Christmas)