Every year we take down our Christmas ornaments and decorations from our attic and decorate our tree and our home. This year in our home we are having a homemade Christmas. Yes, I enjoy doing the blog reviews/giveaways and black Friday shopping but instead of spending hours decorating our tree and home and not pulling down all our ornaments this year we (my family) are making our decorations and ornaments! Typically it takes me all day to decorate our tree with all my collectible ornaments. I want to use this time this year instead to sit with my family and make our decorations ourselves - having those treasured memories instead of placing store bought ornaments on our tree. This year we will be making a few homemade Christmas gifts, crafts and recipes which I will be sharing with you!
My children and I are using The Truth in the Tinsel (An Advent for Little Hands) this year where each day has a handmade craft to go with the story. I will be posting what we have done so far in a few days. I would definitely encourage you to purchase this e-book - it's only $4.99.
Last weekend my children and I collected pine cones (one for each member of our family, a big one for my husband to a tiny one for the baby) at the park and last night my husband and 3 older children painted pine cones.
We put them underneath our small Christmas tree. These are the memories I want to create this year, to enjoy the blessing of family time God has given us!
What are you making homemade this Christmas? Share - leave a comment with your link!
Since I cannot give up my ocd Christmas decorating .... but we bake together, decorate cookies and cupcakes for neighbors and host an ornament day for kids.
ReplyDeleteLOVE this time of year, but it would be nice to tone it down!
Love it. We are doing Truth in the Tinsel too. Actually I have a link up if you want to join in. http://www.kathysclutteredmind.com/2011/12/truth-in-tinsel-week-1.html We are choosing to decorate our tree with handmade ornaments too this year! It is so much more special than using the store bought ornaments!
ReplyDeleteLove it. We are also doing Truth in the Tinsel and decorating our tree with only handmade ornaments this year. I am doing a Truth in the Tinsel link up come on over and join in http://www.kathysclutteredmind.com/2011/12/truth-in-tinsel-week-1.html
ReplyDeleteI would love for you to link this to Hey Mom, Look What I Did at Adventures In Mommy Land.
ReplyDeleteI bought some pinecones at the dollar store and didn't know what I was going to do with them, this might be the solution.
Aww, I remember doing this when I was little lol. What fun! Thanks so much for sharing!
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Chari
https://www.facebook.com/ChariTs.Inspirational.Creations
What a very fun idea. I love pine cones and paint just makes them that much better.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Here is a link to what we have been up to this Christmas Season:
http://myshaenoel.blogspot.com/2011/12/santa-paper-plate-craft-santa-christmas.html
Take care,
Shauna
myshaenoel.blogspot.com
I absolutely love your arts and crafts ideas for kids! I'm going to use the Valentine's Day craft projects with my grandkids!
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