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The holiday season is upon us and it’s time to get busy working on some Christmas crafts with the kids. Today’s project is an easy one and great to do with preschoolers and elementary-aged school children. These Wooden Spoon Snowman Ornaments can be made in one afternoon and you’ll only need a few basic craft supplies to make them.
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Kid’s Crafts: Wooden Spoon Snowman Ornaments
Wood Sundae Ice Cream Spoons
Acrylic Craft Paint in White, Black and Orange
Paint Brush, Water Dish, Paper Towels
Round Wooden Toothpick
1/8″ to 1/4″ Satin Ribbon 5″ Long
Scissors
Clear Fishing Line 5″ Long
Quick-Drying Craft Glue
Old Newspaper Sheets
Cover your work surface with sheets of old newspaper. Kids can be messy when working with paints.
Have the kids base coat their wooden sundae ice cream spoons with 2 coats of white acrylic craft paint and let dry for 20-30 minutes. While the paint is drying they can tie their clear fishing line into a loop with a knotted end. This will be used as the ornaments hanging loop.
Dip the end of a paint brush (not the brush end) into black acrylic craft paint and dot on 2 black eyes. Use a paint brush to paint on a carrot-shaped nose. Dip the end of a round wooden toothpick into black acrylic craft paint and dot on 5 small circles to form the snowman’s mouth. Dip the toothpick into black paint again and dot on 3 small circles to serve as his buttons. Let dry for 30-45 minutes.
Tie the satin ribbon around his neck to serve as his scarf. Use scissors to trim the ends. Flip the wooden spoon over and use craft glue to add the fishing line hanging loop. Let dry for 30-45 minutes. That’s it, you’re done!
Notes: If you’re working with really young children you could have an adult base coat all of the wooden sundae spoons ahead of time. Then give the kids black and orange markers to add on the snowman’s facial features. They can then finish up by tying on his scarf and gluing on his hanging loop. If you want to add a black top hat, you could make one by cutting out a top hat shape from black craft foam and gluing it onto the top of his head. We were working with young children so we kept them simple. You could certainly “fancy” them up!
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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and my family is getting ready for all of our annual Christmas Eve Holiday Family Traditions. Many of our traditions were started when our daughter was a little girl. Over the years we’ve expanded them and now we celebrate those same traditions with our grandchildren.
Here’s a few of our fun things we like to do on Christmas Eve. They’re in no particular order.
1. Book Reading – We have 3 children’s books that my husband likes to read to the kids. Two of these books he started reading to our daughter when she was little and the third one is a new book that we added 4 years ago. My grandchildren love the book called Reindeer Dust which includes a recipe to make homemade reindeer food.
2. Reindeer Food – You can’t leave Santa’s reindeer out on all of the holiday fun! In a large mixing bowl we toss together some oatmeal, chopped carrots, raisins and other “goodies” for the reindeer. The kids put half of it in our front yard and the other half in their front yard at their house. This way the reindeer can enjoy a snack at each house when Santa comes to deliver presents.
3. Holiday Movies – We have a few classic holiday made-for-TV movies that we like to pull out during the holiday season. The kids flip a coin and the winner gets to select which animated movie that we watch together as a family. Almost every year…it seems to be Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as our Christmas Eve movie!
4. Holiday Music – If a book isn’t being read or a movie isn’t playing on TV, you’ll find holiday music playing throughout our house! We enjoy the good old-fashioned holiday music.
5. Cookies & Hot Cocoa for Santa – Every year we put out a plate of holiday cookies for Santa along with a cup of hot cocoa. We used to do milk until our daughter pointed out one year that Santa must get cold riding around in his sleigh during the wintertime, so we switched from milk to hot cocoa to help keep Santa warm. You can find our Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe right here on the blog.
6. Family Dinner – We like to get together early in the evening for a simple family dinner. We don’t go all out like we do on Christmas Day. We keep it pretty simple and easy. Just a basic hot meal together as a family.
7. New Pajamas – I like to get the kids a new pair of pajamas every year for the holidays. I don’t get Christmas theme’d ones…just a new basic set of nice warm pajamas. I wrap them up and give them their new pajamas on Christmas Eve. They can then wear them to bed that night and look decent for photos in the morning!
8. Evening Mass – We’re catholic and our church offers an evening mass and a midnight mass. We go to the evening mass together as a family. We find that going to the evening mass is a lot easier on the kids than the midnight mass.
Christmas Eve Day and Evening is quite a busy time for our family. Do you and your family have any special Christmas Eve family traditions? If so, I would love to hear them!
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