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Take some time for creative crafting to get you in the mood for the fall and winter season. Include your kids and it turns into a time of making memories. Set them around your home for a seasonal update or give them as gifts. Your choice and they don’t require too much pre-planning or money.
Autumn Picture
What you need:
- Picture frame
- Leaves, real or fake
- Hot glue gun and glue stick
Use fabric or real leaves. (Dollar-type store has good fake leaves.)
If using fabric or craft leaves, gently remove the plastic stem, so the leaves are easier to position.
Choose which direction you want your frame to go (I chose horizontal) and lay out your leaves. Place a dot of hot glue on the frame, and carefully place your leaves around the perimeter.
Let the glue cool off, clean the glass making sure it’s totally dry before sliding in your favorite picture or child’s artwork.
Snowman
What you need:
- Tube sock (adult or child’s size)
- Stuffing (Could use: two styrofoam balls, or dry beans, rice kernels, or plastic bag/packaging- anything that will stuff into the sock and hold a round shape)
- String
- Ribbon
- Black marker
- Orange marker
- One wooden skewer, or toothpick
- Buttons
- Ribbon for scarf
- Pom-pom
- Hot glue gun and glue stick
Fill the sock with whatever you’ve chosen for stuffing. I had rice on hand, so that’s what I used!
Tie off in the middle, to create two round “snowballs.” Tie off a section at the top, leaving the tube part of the sock free to turn down to create the snowman’s hat. Ours was a little long, so we cut the tubing off and folded some of the extra under when making the hat!
Use the orange marker to color the tip of the skewer or toothpick, then hot glue that on as the carrot nose, and hot glue the buttons down the front. If you don’t have buttons, you can draw them on with any color marker.
Draw on the face with marker, and hot glue the pom -pom to the top of the hat. Wrap a piece of festive ribbon around like a scarf, and use a dab of hot glue to keep it in place!
