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Reader Stories: Christmas Projects - Show off Your Christmas Crafts and Recipes

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Christmas time is a busy time, but a fun time to do projects and baking with our children. Show off your recipes and projects from the Advent Calendar or any Christmas projects you do together.

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Picture Christmas Tree Puzzle Ornament

Cut foam sheet into circle. Cut picture smaller than foam circle and glue to foam circle. Glue puzzle pieces around picture face up. I use a puzzle that had missing pieces to recycle puzzle. Then glu…More

Countdown to Christmas Tree

We did this as a group with another home school family - it was very fun. We drew a Christmas tree, painted and decorated it with glitter, drew lights. Some had garland we cut from paper. Then we wen…More

Christmas Treasure Bottle

We used colored sand and Christmas buttons that I got from Michaels, we also used erasers and jingle bells, which I was later bummed to find out they can't jingle when they are filled with sand. :) I…More

Holiday Streamers

I really liked this project, because it was simple for my 3 year old and she was able to do it all by herself after I gave her verbal instructions on how to do it. I printed out the template and fold…More

Gingerbread Man Ornaments

My daughter is only 3 years old, so I went ahead and traced the gingerbread man and cut it out for her. We didn't have Elmers glue so we used Mod Podge to paint the gingerbread man and sprinkled the …More

Gingerbread Man Ornaments

First, we traced gingerbread men onto cardboard and cut them out. Then, we painted them with glue and shook cinnamon on them to make them smell good. Finally, we decorated them with construction pape…More

Oatmeal Gingerbread Cookies

We substituted flours and added Xanthan Gum to make them GFCF and they seemed to turn out just fine.The hardest part was getting the oldest to take turns, but he got to roll out the dough so that mad…More

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