Christmas Crafts & Decor Archives

Geometric Cinnamon Stick Ornament

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Jamie H

Making your own Geometric Cinnamon Stick Ornament is fun, easy, and smells great! One of my favorite Christmas traditions with my kids is making ornaments. We’ve made really simple ones out of craft sticks when the kids were little. We’ve made Keepsake Ornaments from clay, and others that I’ve never shared on the blog. But one of my favorites was the geometric cinnamon stick ornaments that we made last year. We didn’t make them early enough for me to blog them last year, so I decided that now’s the time to share them with you! My favorite things about these

Gift for Kids to Make

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Jamie H

These simple scarves are easy enough a gift for kids to make on their own! Perfect if your kids need to make some last-minute gifts! Contains affiliate links. When you order using these links, we receive a small portion, but your cost stays the same! At my house, I’ve tried so hard to get the kids excited about giving during the Christmas season. It’s a time of year when we can get so focused on ourselves, and I really want to help my kids learn how to focus on others instead. One of the easiest ways I’ve found to do

Simple Rustic Christmas Party

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Kerry

Simple Rustic Christmas Party decor. I want to share with you my Christmas Party decorations and a couple desserts. We love hosting a Simple Rustic Christmas Party. I’m a low key party thrower so I made the guests bring most of the food. Mostly appetizers & desserts. But what’s a Christmas party without decorations! I wanted to share with you some of my Simple Rustic Christmas Party decorations. Click on the image above to find where to buy decor or how to make it. I like to keep my decor simple. But I think that makes it easier for

4 Crafts to Enjoy with Kids

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Jamie H

Most children love crafts projects. That’s why elementary school includes so many wonderful assignments for them. Once they’re familiar with the joy of crafting, it’s easy to teach them new skills that could become lifelong hobbies. Here are 4 crafts to enjoy with kids. Building a Better Mailbox While children today don’t have the same appreciation of the importance of mail as people of a past generation, they still think the mailbox is fun. You can teach them the thrill of designing their own thanks to this decorative guide to mailbox personalization. It shows the many ways that parents and

Free Holiday Printables 2015

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Lucy

Free Holiday Printables – Printables for Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Years! Use these printables to make the holiday less stressful, more fun, or more decorative! This is our 3rd annual Holiday Printable collection. Check out the collection for 2013 and 2014 for more great printables, backgrounds, & Facebook covers! I love free printables. First of all, who doesn’t love free?? Plus they are handy for some many things. They are great to decorate with! Plop a decorative printable in a frame and you have a great decoration. Printable tags are great for lots of things and printables are also great

Clothespin Christmas Card Wreath

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Jamie H

I first saw this adorable idea for a clothespin Christmas card wreath when I was looking for cute craft ideas for our local MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group over the summer. I pinned the image, figuring I’d look at the instructions as it got closer to Christmastime and our December craft. As is the case so often on Pinterest, I found that the link didn’t go anywhere. So I started searching, since I really wanted to give credit where it was due. I finally found the original clothespin Christmas card wreath on Craftiness is Not Optional. This craft worked out

Cinnamon Stick Nativity Ornament

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Jamie H

If you read our blog regularly, you may have noticed that I love making ornaments. That can be evidenced by my most recent Washi Tape Cookie Cutter Ornaments, or last year’s Keepsake Ornaments. This year, my mom gave me a can full of cinnamon sticks, which inspired my Cinnamon Stick Star Sign as well as this Cinnamon Stick Nativity Ornament. One of my favorite memories growing up is of getting the boxes of ornaments out at Christmastime. My sister and I helped decorate the tree for as long as I can remember, and we would take each ornament out and

How to Make Fabric Trees from Old Clothes

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Lucy

Looking for a fun & easy decoration for your mantle or shelf this Christmas and winter season? Try these fabric and ribbon trees! I wanted something to go on my mantle with my nativity set. We just moved into our new house and this is the very first time, I have ever had a mantle so I wasn’t so sure what I wanted to do with it. But since my nativity is very simple and understated, I wanted something really fun to go with it and something lots of color! Jamie had showed me some sweater trees she had seen

Dried Orange Wreath and How to Dry Oranges for Crafts

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Jamie H

I don’t know what my deal is with wreaths. The funny part is, I’m not a huge decorator. But for some reason I love making wreaths, so I make them quite often. My most recent inspiration was to make a wreath using dried oranges as a Christmasy wreath. So here’s the Dried Orange Wreath, along with directions for how to dry oranges to use in crafts. So since you’ll need dried oranges to make the wreath, let’s start with how to dry oranges. For this wreath, I used 5 oranges. Cut in 1/2″ slices. You’ll want them to be uniformly

Cinnamon Stick Christmas Star

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Jamie H

As a child, I always loved the song, We Three Kings. The thought of these wise men leaving their lives and setting off by faith to find the Messiah is such an amazing concept. And the star they followed inspired this Christmas craft of a cinnamon stick star sign. O star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to thy perfect Light. -John Henry Hopkins, Jr. While I made this Cinnamon Stick Star, I thought about how the wise men not only saw the star and understood its implication, but they