Making Christmas Gift Bags

Looking for a special way to wrap up that holiday gift. It is so easy to make holiday gift bags. These are so easy to make and require little time and your recipients don’t need to know how fun and easy it was to create. This year we wanted to make our bags a little special so we purchased pens with there names on them and scratch off cards for friends and associates, but how do you hand those out. Well we decided to make our own gift bags.

First you will need to head to the craft store and pick up some cellopane bags, these could be clear or the ones that have images on them, like trees or even santas. Then get some ribbon also these can come in any color that you like or you can mix and match them.

We then tied the ribbon to the pen and cards and then placed them in the bags and made a bow on top.

Easy as that it is a fun for the kids to help with the assembly.

This is a step by step way to make your own Holiday Wreath. I found this is a great was to get your creative juices following and help you express yourself. All of these items can be found at your local crafting store.

What you will need:

• 24 inch wreath
• Pre-made bow
• Garland Wire
• Silver Long Picks
• Ribbon
• Mini Ornaments

1. Fluff the bare wreath to the fullness you would like it to be.
2. Starting at the bottom of the wreath wrap your chosen ribbon around the wreath. To secure the ribbon to the wreath, simply tie the two ends together at your starting and finishing points.
3. To hide the area where you just made a knot with the ribbon, you can wire tie a pre-made bow onto the bottom of the wreath.
4. Fill in the wreath using the mini ornaments securing them to various branches using the garland wire. To make both sides of the wreath even, alternate sides starting at the bottom and work your way up when placeing ornaments so one side of the wreath doesn’t end up with more ornaments than the other.
5. The last step is to add the long silver picks to the bare wreath. Use the wire garland to secure the picks
6. Hang your completed wreath.

This was my Thanksgiving table top and I thought it would be fun to put it up even thou it is after the holiday, because it is fun to make.

What you will need:

• Modeling Clay in brown, red, orange
• Toothpick
• 2 small wiggle eyes (you can get at craft store)
• Feathers in fall colors

How to make it:

• Roll the brown clay into one large ball and one small ball. Break a toothpick in half, and poke half of the toothpick into the large ball that will be the body wherever you want the head to be. Please the head onto the exposed toothpick
• Roll a small pice of orange clay into a beak. Break or cut the remaining half toothpick in half again and push into the front of the face where you want the beak to be. Press the beak onto the toothpick
• Roll a small piece of red clay in your fingers to form the gobbler. Press the globbler over the top of the beak and down on the side.
• Roll out six small pieces of orange clay. Press three next to each other on the bottom of the turkey toward one side, and the other three on the other side.
• Trim the long shaft from the feathers then poke the feathers into the back of the turkey.