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Kids Christmas Craft Projects

By Lee Hansen

Recycling crafts teach kids the basics of living green and saving money. These craft projects are fun to make and kids can craft wonderful inexpensive gifts for family, teacher and friends.

Holiday Crafts From Old Greeting Cards

Gift Tags: Cut used cards into unique shapes, punch a hole and thread a short length of embroidery floss through the hole to make gift tags. If you are more adventurous and comfortable with a craft knife, you can make your own mini gift boxes.

Gift Jewelry: Cut individual motifs from cards into small rectangles, circles or squares (about 2-3 inches maximum in size). Glue the shapes onto bristol board, trim the edges, add a pin back and you have a lovely seasonal brooch.

Magnets and Fridgies: Cut out small motifs or scenes and glue these shapes onto magnetic material to create unique art quality magnets for gift giving or craft sales!

Artwork: Cut out shapes and assemble them on foam core artboard to create wonderful collages and personalized posters.

Garland Banners: Trace around holiday cookie cutters onto the most colorful part of last year's holiday cards. Cut out the shapes and string on a brightly colored ribbon. Use your recycled cards holiday garland to adorn the mantel, a doorway or a hallway wall or bulletin board.

Kid Stuff - Crafts & More Just for Kids

Padded Hangers Craft Project

Make softly padded hangers for hanging your clothes in the closet from old wire hangers or plastic hangers. Wrap each hanger with strips cut from plastic shopping bags, tape the ends securely, then wrap again using decorative ribbon or fabric scraps to cover the plastic bags.

New Life for Old Plastic Lids

Make finger puppets, sun catchers, mobiles and more with discarded plastic lids from household products. click for directions

Crayon Scrap Candles

Melt down nibs and bits of old crayons with new wax to make lovely new candles for gifts or home use. click here for easy instructions

Crafts from Natural Objects

Poetry Stones

Decorate smooth stones with painted, lettered or glued on words and art to use as garden decor, paper weights, artwork or game parts. You can also use shells from the shore for this project. Protect with a coat of clear weatherproof sealant to make the stones water proof.

Pine Cone Crafts

Make gifts and decorations from these bristly natural seed pods - click for ideas.

About the Author

Lee Hansen writes about crafts at Squidoo where she is a Giant Squid lensmaster. She also publishes Pastiche Family Portal, an award-winning family crafts and lifestyle web magazine for families of all stages, and two free clip art web sites, Clip Art and Crafts and Lee Hansen Graphics.