Holiday Decorations and Cold Weather Fun
Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:19 pm
Tin can luminaries
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1490276/detail.html
Make the ice light up!
http://www.acmedate.net/dna/getwriting/A2408492
If it snows this year, I am going to do this for sure, it looks so cool!
I saw another way of making ice lanterns by freezing water in balloons and pouring the water out when they are half frozen. It makes a pretty bowl shape and you can put a candle way down in inside. Maybe you can add a few drops of food coloring to the water too. That might make it a pretty color.
Cinnamon Ornaments
http://recipestoday.com/recipes/misc/cinornaments.htm
Got any old CD's you don't want? Or did someone give you one for christmas and you hate it? Break a Mirror or a plate over christmas? Got any old costume Jewellery? Don't throw that away, you could glue it to a foam ball and make an ornament out of the peices.
Feed the Birds
Going on a low carb diet, want to get rid of all that sugery cereal, crackers, and stuff in your cubboard. Just mix it with peanut butter or grease, or even peanut butter and grease! You can add raisons, dried oats, rice, or other things you think birds might like. Just take your mixture and mix it in a pie pan or other throw away container. Make a little cake by freezing it. When you pop it out, it should be solid block and if it is very cold outside, it will remain solid. You can just stitck in someplace, like in a tree. The birds can eat this, and so can other animals. You can also stick some of this to a pine cone, and hang it up for the birds to find.
Ice Bird Feeder sun catchers
One tin pie plate
Seed, orange slices, cranberries, raisons, ect
Arrange your yummy foods inside a pie plate. You can make a neat design like a star or a spiral or even a happy face. Arrange the goodies any way you like. Pour some water over this and freeze it. Make a hole in your suncatcher by melting a little hole, and string it to hang outside. As it melts the seeds fall for the birds.
Do you know of any cold weather crafts you would like to share with me?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1490276/detail.html
Make the ice light up!
http://www.acmedate.net/dna/getwriting/A2408492
If it snows this year, I am going to do this for sure, it looks so cool!
I saw another way of making ice lanterns by freezing water in balloons and pouring the water out when they are half frozen. It makes a pretty bowl shape and you can put a candle way down in inside. Maybe you can add a few drops of food coloring to the water too. That might make it a pretty color.
Cinnamon Ornaments
http://recipestoday.com/recipes/misc/cinornaments.htm
Got any old CD's you don't want? Or did someone give you one for christmas and you hate it? Break a Mirror or a plate over christmas? Got any old costume Jewellery? Don't throw that away, you could glue it to a foam ball and make an ornament out of the peices.
Feed the Birds
Going on a low carb diet, want to get rid of all that sugery cereal, crackers, and stuff in your cubboard. Just mix it with peanut butter or grease, or even peanut butter and grease! You can add raisons, dried oats, rice, or other things you think birds might like. Just take your mixture and mix it in a pie pan or other throw away container. Make a little cake by freezing it. When you pop it out, it should be solid block and if it is very cold outside, it will remain solid. You can just stitck in someplace, like in a tree. The birds can eat this, and so can other animals. You can also stick some of this to a pine cone, and hang it up for the birds to find.
Ice Bird Feeder sun catchers
One tin pie plate
Seed, orange slices, cranberries, raisons, ect
Arrange your yummy foods inside a pie plate. You can make a neat design like a star or a spiral or even a happy face. Arrange the goodies any way you like. Pour some water over this and freeze it. Make a hole in your suncatcher by melting a little hole, and string it to hang outside. As it melts the seeds fall for the birds.
Do you know of any cold weather crafts you would like to share with me?
Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:18 pm
Ooooh perfect thread for me to show off the wreath I made the other night.
We'd already put up the Christmas tree, but we didn't have a wreath for the door, and it was late and no one felt like going out, plus it might be hard to find a cool wreath that would match the tree (very non-traditional, no red or green or gold), so I decided to make one. I suprised my parents with it too.
You can start witha foam wreath base. You can get them at any floral store or craft store. I didn't have one handy, so I made one, I cut a ring out of cardboard, and attached my own foam to the front of it.
Then I wrapped the entire thing in leftover silver garland. I tied it to itself to hold it on, but you could use glue, floral picks, or pins. Then I went around it with leftover blue garland, making sure the silver showed through. You could add ribbon to it, or a bow, or some baubles, or something for extra ornamentation, or leave it plain.
Finished product
The tree (to show that it matches =P)
We'd already put up the Christmas tree, but we didn't have a wreath for the door, and it was late and no one felt like going out, plus it might be hard to find a cool wreath that would match the tree (very non-traditional, no red or green or gold), so I decided to make one. I suprised my parents with it too.
You can start witha foam wreath base. You can get them at any floral store or craft store. I didn't have one handy, so I made one, I cut a ring out of cardboard, and attached my own foam to the front of it.
Then I wrapped the entire thing in leftover silver garland. I tied it to itself to hold it on, but you could use glue, floral picks, or pins. Then I went around it with leftover blue garland, making sure the silver showed through. You could add ribbon to it, or a bow, or some baubles, or something for extra ornamentation, or leave it plain.
Finished product
The tree (to show that it matches =P)
Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:49 pm
that's well cool! i once made a wreath, but out of holly. twas quite hard. i we made a ring out of some long thin branches, and then wrapped the holly around it. we may have put something else on it to decorate it, i cant remember. i dont think i have a photo
Re: Holiday Decorations and Cold Weather Fun
Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:57 pm
smudgeoffudge wrote:One tin pie plate
Seed, orange slices, cranberries, raisons, ect
Arrange your yummy foods inside a pie plate. You can make a neat design like a star or a spiral or even a happy face. Arrange the goodies any way you like. Pour some water over this and freeze it. Make a hole in your suncatcher by melting a little hole, and string it to hang outside. As it melts the seeds fall for the birds.
Do you know of any cold weather crafts you would like to share with me?
That's so cool! I think I'll do that one sometime.
Thanks for sharing!
Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:28 pm
Sapphire Faerie wrote:Ooooh perfect thread for me to show off the wreath I made the other night.
We'd already put up the Christmas tree, but we didn't have a wreath for the door, and it was late and no one felt like going out, plus it might be hard to find a cool wreath that would match the tree (very non-traditional, no red or green or gold), so I decided to make one. I suprised my parents with it too.
You can start witha foam wreath base. You can get them at any floral store or craft store. I didn't have one handy, so I made one, I cut a ring out of cardboard, and attached my own foam to the front of it.
Then I wrapped the entire thing in leftover silver garland. I tied it to itself to hold it on, but you could use glue, floral picks, or pins. Then I went around it with leftover blue garland, making sure the silver showed through. You could add ribbon to it, or a bow, or some baubles, or something for extra ornamentation, or leave it plain.
Finished product
The tree (to show that it matches =P)
That tree is beautiful, and nice job on the wreath! I have always loved blue and white decorations and blue outdoor lights. I don't know if it means anything, having a lot of blue up, but blue and silver or blue and white looks very wintery and pretty to me.
I know another craft that people in town were doing once, and it turned out very pretty. You save cat-food cans, or tuna cans, or any very small cans like this. When you have a lot of those, you spray paint them white or another color you like. Then you take some white wooden stakes and hammer the cans onto the top. This makes like a torch. You can put a christmas light in this and put them along your driveway. I don't know how they rigged the little lights to shine inside the stake, but it was very pretty. I don't think I would risk putting candles in these, though.
I found this site just now and the little match boxes are so cute. It looks like it would be hard to make something so tiny.
http://www.christmasgiftsfromgermany.com/.0.html
Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:55 am
=) We're all about the blue and silver and white. (the lights on the tree are blue, you can't tell in the picture, but they make the whole tree glow blue when it's dark) Since I took those pics, I put up blue garland and blue icicle lights around the top of the walls around the tree, and the stockings are up now, they're glittery and dark blue with silver trim.
I also remembered another cool craft. You can make these and use them as ornamants for your tree. They're called German stars, and they're made by folding together four strips of paper.
http://www.highhopes.com/3dstar.html
http://www.howtomakestars.com/instructions.html
Two sites with good directions.
I also remembered another cool craft. You can make these and use them as ornamants for your tree. They're called German stars, and they're made by folding together four strips of paper.
http://www.highhopes.com/3dstar.html
http://www.howtomakestars.com/instructions.html
Two sites with good directions.
Re: Holiday Decorations and Cold Weather Fun
Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:13 am
Kitten Medli wrote:smudgeoffudge wrote:One tin pie plate
Seed, orange slices, cranberries, raisons, ect
Arrange your yummy foods inside a pie plate. You can make a neat design like a star or a spiral or even a happy face. Arrange the goodies any way you like. Pour some water over this and freeze it. Make a hole in your suncatcher by melting a little hole, and string it to hang outside. As it melts the seeds fall for the birds.
Do you know of any cold weather crafts you would like to share with me?
That's so cool! I think I'll do that one sometime.
That is a cute idea. I'm actually relaying some of these ideas back to my mom, who is a kindergarten teacher looking for some good seasonal activities.
Thanks for sharing!