Christmas is right around the corner!!!

Would you like to know some awesome crafts to brighten up your house for the holidays!!! Because now you can with these crafts!!!

Ornament

What you'll need

3 regular craft sticks
5 mini craft sticks
Light blue acrylic paint
½ sheet white felt
Snow texture medium (recommended: Snow-Tex)
White craft glue
6" length of thin ribbon
Paintbrush
Pattern

Here's a helpful tip:
Snow texture medium is available from your local discount department store or craft supply store.

Yarn can be used for the hanger instead of ribbon.

The snow medium is best applied in a dabbing motion and by placing blobs onto the surface rather than traditional painting.

How to make it

Line up the three craft sticks next to each other, leaving some space between each one. Lay three mini craft sticks perpendicularly across the regular craft sticks, one at the top, one at the bottom, and one in the middle. Once you have them all lined up, glue them together.
Paint the assembled sticks with blue paint and let dry.
Cut two curtains from the white felt using the pattern.
Turn the assembled sticks over and glue curtains in place.
Loop a piece of ribbon and glue it to the back of the assembled window.
Glue the remaining two mini craft sticks at the top and bottom of the assembled window, over the top of the felt curtains. Let dry.
Turn window face up again and add the snow texture medium to the "windowsills." Let dry for several hours.

http://spoonful.com/crafts/snowy-window

Snowflake

Total Time 1 hour Ages all-ages

Punch a bunch of these simple paper snowflakes, then hang them from your ceiling or fireplace mantel. For a truly frosted-looking flake, use parchment paper or vellum.

What you'll need

8 1/2 by 11-inch sheet of paper
Stapler
Scissors or pinking shears
Hole punch
Clear tape

How to make it

Fold the paper lengthwise and cut it in half.
Starting at one short end, fanfold the paper in 1/2-inch folds. Staple the fan in the middle.
Use scissors or pinking shears to trim both ends, then hole-punch a design into the fan?s folds. When you are finished, unfold the fan to create a circle and tape the edges together to secure it.

http://spoonful.com/crafts/fan-tastic-snowflakes

Stuffed Felt Christmas Tree

What you'll need

1 sheet green felt
1 miniature craft stick
Brown acrylic craft paint
Paintbrush
6" green yarn
2 yellow tri-beads
Colorful buttons or craft jewels
Hot glue gun or needle and thread
Cotton batting
Scissors

* Tip

Another way to attach the string hanger is to run the yarn through the open felt at the top of the tree before gluing the sides together.

How to make it

Paint half of the craft stick brown on both sides. It's not necessary to paint the whole thing as half of it will be inside the ornament and not visible.
Fold green felt in half like a greeting card. Using the folded edge as the pointed top of the tree, cut out a tree shape.
Glue both sides of the tree together. Stuff the tree with cotton batting, using a paintbrush handle to gently push the batting up into the top of the tree.
Once the tree is full, insert the craft stick, unpainted end first, into the middle of the batting at the center of the tree's bottom. Grasp the felt near the bottom of the tree, holding the stick in place at the same time. Glue the stick to the felt and glue the bottom of the tree shut.
Decorate the outside of the tree with craft jewels or buttons as the ornaments.
Glue the yarn to the top of the tree on both sides, cover with two tri-beads, which will act as the tree's star.

I hope you like these three aweome crafts!!!

http://spoonful.com/crafts/stuffed-felt-christmas-tree

Silverware Stocking

These festive, personalized stockings add a playful touch to the holiday dinner table, and make it easier to hang on to everything you need when maneuvering through a buffet line.

What you'll need

Stocking template -- draw your own or download ours
Scissors
Felt
Patterned fabric
Hot glue or fabric glue
Rickrack
Beads
Beading cord (we used clear plastic cord)

How to make it

Use the template to cut two stocking shapes from the felt, then cut the cuff and toe shapes from the patterned fabric. The cuff is a long rectangle with the two long edges folded under and ironed for a clean look.
Glue the two stocking shapes together at the edges, leaving the top of the stocking open. Fold a 6-inch length of rickrack in half and glue the ends just inside the stocking's top. Glue the cuff and toe in place.
String beads onto the cord. When the string of beads is long enough to form your letter, knot both ends. Draw your letter onto the stocking with glue, then press the string of beads onto it.

http://spoonful.com/crafts/silverware-stocking

Woody's Cowboy Boot Christmas Stocking

Fashioned after Woody's fancy footwear, this felt cowboy boot is the perfect size for Santa to stuff with candies and trinkets.

What you'll need

Template for Woody's Cowboy Boot Christmas Stocking
Scissors
Straight pins (for pinning the template to the felt)
Felt (two large sheets of tan, scraps of yellow, scraps of brown)
Stiff felt (black)
Hot glue gun
4 gold buttons, seeing needle, thread (optional)
Download Woody's Cowboy Boot Christmas Stocking Template

How to make it

Print out the template and cut out the pieces. Tape the boot top to the boot bottom, overlapping the pieces by 1/2 inch to create a pattern for the boot. Then use it to cut out two matching boots (one for the front and one for the back) from tan felt. Cut the remaining pieces out of felt as specified on the template pieces.
Arrange the boot front and the sole, as shown, so that the sole extends 1/4 inch below the bottom.
Holding the pieces together, flip them over and glue the sole to the back of the boot front. Now glue the two boot pieces together, matching up all the edges and sandwiching the sole between them. (Note: Because the sole is cut from stiff felt, it helps hold the shape of the boot.)
Glue the heels in place (one to the front and the other to the back), matching up the bottoms with the lower edge of the sole.
Glue the two spur wheels one atop the other to make a single thicker one, and then set it aside. Next, snip two small vertical slits in the round portion of each spur arm and thread a spur strap through them, as shown.
Place one of the spur arm/strap assemblies on the front of the boot so that the vertical strap falls right in front of the heel and the end of the arm extends a bit beyond the boot.
Glue the pieces in place, folding the straps around to the back of the boot. Glue the remaining arm/strap to the back of the boot. This time, trim the ends instead of wrapping them around to the front. Now glue the extended portion of the spur arms together, sandwiching the spur wheel between them.
Create a top loop for each side of the boot by stacking and gluing together the two layers.
Fold the loops in half, sandwiching the boot tops between the ends, and glue them in place, as shown.