Family Activities FUN for WINTER!
HOMEADE Holiday GIFT Ideas for KIDS! * * * * *
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Handprint
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Materials:
- Pencil
- Brown craft foam or card stock
- Black marker
- Red glitter glue
- Gold sequins
- Glue
- Googly eyes
- Red pom-pom
- Brown pipe cleaner
- Paper clip or clothespin
Instructions:
1. To assemble one, first use a pencil to trace your child's hand onto a piece of brown craft foam or card stock.
2. Cut out the shape and add black marker hooves to the fingertips.
3. Next, add a red glitter glue collar with gold sequins for bells, then glue on a googly eye, a red pom-pom
nose, and a tail cut from brown craft foam or card stock.
4. For the reindeer's antlers, cut a brown pipe cleaner in half. Bend each half in two (slightly off-center) and curl
the ends. Glue together the pipe cleaner pieces, holding them in place with a paper clip or clothespin until
the glue dires. Finally, glue the antlers in place on the reindeer.
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Gift Bookmarks 
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Materials:
- Paper, ribbon, fabric or yarn
- Scissors
- Markers, stamps, or stickers
- Con-tact paper, optional
Instructions:
1. First pick a theme or genre that is a favorite of the recipient.
2. Make bookmarks out of paper, wallpaper, ribbon, fabric or yarn. Fancy bookmarks can have beads or ribbons
hanging from a string on the top or can come decorated with rubber stamp patterns. Postage stamps,
tickets, photo-booth pictures, cartoons and tiny drawings can be laminated in Con-Tact paper.
3. Tuck the bookmark with a gift certificate to the local bookstore in a decorated envelope.
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4x6 Recipe Card Holders
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Materials:
- 30 Jumbo Popsicle sticks (about 3/4" x 6")
- School glue or tacky glue
- Wax paper or plastic grocery bags
- Woodsies in hearts or other shapes
- Paint in desired colors
- Paintbrushes
- Decorations for the recipe holder
- 4x6" Index cards
Instructions:
1. Protect your surface by using wax paper or plastic grocery bags. You can use
newspaper, but I find that the project tends to stick to it and the newspaper print
transfers to the Popsicle sticks.
2. Glue 8 Popsicle sticks long sides together in a row. (see Photo 1)
3. Glue 5 Popsicle sticks long sides together in a row. (see Photo 1)
4. Stack and glue 7 Popsicle sticks on top of each other. (see Photo 1)
5. Create another stack of 7 Popsicle sticks.
6. Take one stack of 7 popsicle sticks and glue to the (8 stick) longest row, along the
longest side. (see photo 3)
7. Repeat with other stack of 7 popsicle sticks
8. Glue a Popsicle stick at one end of the recipe holder to create the bottom. (see Photo 4)
9. Glue the row of 5 Popsicle sticks on top of the stacks of 7 Popsicle sticks, and adhering
to the bottom edge of the recipe holder. (see Photo 6)
10. Turn recipe holder over. Glue 2 Popsicle sticks together to create a V shape and attach
to the top of the recipe holder to create a hanger. (see Photo 6)
11. Let dry completely
12. Paint Woodsies shapes and let dry. Glue shapes on to the front of the recipe card
holder.
13. Give this useful present to anyone who likes to cook!
BE CREATIVE!
You can paint the popsicle sticks, add photos (use contact paper),
write a message, use rubber stamps... etc.
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