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Christmas Creative x

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It’s the last day of the term for the kids, which would normally herald my favourite time of the year – hunkering down with crafts and an open fire to embrace everything glitter, festive and fun.   It’s not the same with builders in the house…but why – really – should it be any different? In fact, with all our decorations in storage, the call to make everything is stronger than ever..I’m just thinking we need to keep everything as cheap and as simple as possible…decorations from paper?

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Surprisingly effective: Cut out the shape, glue 2 sides together..and keep going.  Miniatures for a garland..larger for a tree..

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Or these globes? Fun with scissors and a hole-punch..

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If we get really carried away…. a spot of origami?

(Or maybe we’ll just stick to to the good’ol paper chain….)

Laters, Kate x

Best Christmas Craft EVER!

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Bella and I had a festive Saturday afternoon covered in glue ‘n’ glitter, making our own Christmas cloche dioramas…they were so simple…yet so satisfying!

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In amongst our renovation/building chaos we gathered all our bits together: A glue gun, uhu glue, foam plates, plastic wine glasses, glitter and all the little Christmas ornaments we could find.

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We carefully, using a sharp knife, cut the end of the plastic wine glasses off, and cut out oversized circles from the foam plates.

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Then we arranged and glued on our festive scenes.

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The upturned glasses were glued down and had glitter added through the still open stems.

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Finally they were topped and glued with the hanging part of an unwanted bauble and the bottoms trimmed off.

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So effective.

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Such fun!

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Making them together and seeing them all…just made us smile.. and want to make more and more!

If you can..just do it!

Laters, Kate x