Holiday Crafts

What fun holiday crafts that I can do with children especially baby Susan?

Check http://familycrafts.about.com They have tons of holiday crafts for the family. Most are for children.

MAKE, baking, and decorating
This is a recipe for home decorations. The dough is very easy to work with, and once cooked the ornaments are very firm and easy to paint.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup salt
2 cups flour
1 cup water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
the water-based paints

Put dry ingredients in a bowl, add water and oil and mix until smooth. Once the dough is held in a ball and knead with your hands to smooth. Place the dough on a cutting board and using a rolling pin, roll dough shaped pancakes is a bit thicker than you need to use cookies cut regularly. Cut out ornaments with cookie cutters, design your own ornaments using a blunt knife, or the form of dough with fingers. Punch or cut a hole in the top of the ornament of a string through to hang the decoration.

Bake at 250 degrees until hard (for one to two hours).

Once cooled, paint with water-based paints if you wish, or glue on glitter glue with white households. A string or ribbon through the hole and hang the decoration of the tree or elsewhere in your home. These decorations can be reused year after year.

I made 10 ornaments with my nephew of 4 years .. he loved it and it was his gift to everyone at our Christmas party ... hope this helps!

Well, my granddaughter came home with the cutest thing ever. So simple, just a small bag of oats, some glitter and grass or hay. All mixed in a bag decorated, and Christmas Eve. You go out side and sprinkle on your lawn to guide Santa's reindeer.

If you saved the juice can lids you can cut out images or documents Christmasy to enter the circle. Glue on a ribbon to hang on the tree, or glue a small magnet to the back to put on your refrigerator.
Trace baby's hand and foot print and put into the box lids or put two of them back to back, the beautification of the tip and glue on a ribbon.