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Crafts for Christmas

Ready to spruce up for the holidays with some awesome crafts for Christmas, but don't want to spend a lot of money or time in the shopping malls? Find out what upcycling is all about and how to use what you've already got around the house to get your holiday craft on! Decorate your home, make gifts for friends, learn new gift wrapping techniques - we've got it all.

Can Art: A Way To Recycle Some Tin Cans

We all use some canned foods from time to time. And we all probably use empty cans for one purpose or another. This instructable shows how to decorate cans to be used as organizers for pencils, pens, paint brushes, etc. It's a simple thing to do, and children would especially have fun making t&

posted by Creativeman on Nov 14, 2009

Christmas Tree Hairbow Clip--Step By Step Instruction

This makes great gift. It can also be used on decorating Christams cards, albums etc.Material needed: 3/8' green ribbon, 1/8' gold ribbon, 3/8' brown ribbon, single prong alligator clips, sissors, glue gun and/or fabric-tac.

posted by hipgirl

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7 comments

Dec 9, 2008. 2:40 PMve2vfd says:

Wow, that catalogue xmas tree sure brings back memories!!! I remember making one in first grade back in '75! :D We made them from Sears Catalogues!

Dec 7, 2009. 6:28 AM

brenjg says:

LOL I've got you beat .... I remember making them in the 60s! Whoops, my age is showing :)

Dec 11, 2008. 11:59 AMKeith-Kid says:

Mine? Hooray!

Nov 19, 2009. 9:46 PMharooney says:

I made one of those with my Nanna 30 years ago and we used a phone book as it is so thick and you get a really nice thick tree. Then a slurry of plaster of paris was poured over it, painted and glittered.

Dec 26, 2008. 10:54 AMtelairea says:

I remember them also, but we made them with the readers digest. One could make a *forest* of them with different sized magazines. Make really FULL trees using 2 magazines per tree.