Holiday Crafts for Kids

With it getting colder now the kids will be spending more time inside and looking for things to do, you can help them fill their time by making some easy holiday crafts. Here are a few of my favorite crafts to do with kids.

1.Pinecone Bird feeder, these are easy to make and great to hang outside your windows for the kids to watch the birds come to eat. You will need to get several open pinecones, if they are not open far enough you can place them in a warm oven for a little while. Next you will need peanut butter, buy the cheapest type with no sugar that you can find. For every one pound of peanut butter you can make ten bird feeders.

Next you will need to get birdseed, crafts sticks, and some heavy twine or string. Place the birdseed on a cookie sheet or deep pie plate. Then you can start buy coating the pinecones in peanut butter using the crafts sticks. Make sure to fill in every crack .Now take the pinecone and roll it in the birdseed making sure to thoroughly coat each one. Shake off any extra seed very gently, then tie the string to the top of the pine cone, you can wrap any extra feeders you have made in wax paper until you are ready to use them. The kids could make these and give them to neighbors so they can enjoy watching the birds as well.

2.Another craft that can be made from pinecones is a Pinecone Christmas tree. You will need the following items, dried pinecones, green glitter, glue, sequins, and little star stickers. Make sure the pinecones are open, if not place in a warm oven for a little bit. Then paint the pinecone with glue and sprinkle the green glitter on, once that has dried you can glue the sequins on as tinsel and ornaments. Then you can glue a star on top. You can be creative and add other things if you wish. These can be used for tree ornaments by tying some string around the top of the pinecone. Or you can sit them around to display. These can be done with different size pinecones.