DIY Holidays Friday
By Karina | December 12, 2008
It’s the holiday season, and I have fond memories of stringing popcorn on thread to hang outside for the birds to eat, or of shellacking pine cones with peanut butter and rolling them in seeds every year. Here’s a collection of some holiday ideas for you this year, just in case you need something to do this weekend!
- If you’ve got lots of paper on your hands, you can try out making these two snowflakes. The quilled version will take specialized paper but the cut and fold template can be used on any scratch paper you have around the house. Here are more intricate snowflakes to cut out, they’re beautiful.
- For gifting purposes, raid your cabinets, dump your cereal into reusable containers, and refashion the cereal box into a gift box!
- This is so uber cool - make a starwars Driedel. They call it a DROIDEL. so cute. [via notmartha]
- It’s a little late for this year, but how about making a recycle bin advent calender? Bonus tip - save the holiday cards you’re getting in the mail this year to use next year.
- Speaking of greeting card reuse: my grandmother would use pinking shears to cut out the prettiest bits from holiday cards and would back them with pinked paper (silver, gold, or colored) to make lovely gift tags for presents. You can even do this with cards received this year!
- These water-balloon luminaries are really incredible,
- And this snowstorm garland is so simple, and so elegant!
- If you don’t have a tree yet, consider these weird but wonderful xmas tree substitutes.
- And be sure to check out CraftyChica’s amazing clearing house of links for many more holiday craft ideas!
Do you have any favorite holiday crafts to share?
[[Photo of popcorn garland from flickr user GareandKitty via creative commons license.]]
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great tips! I want to make some paper snowflakes using old pages of books or newspapers.
I do have to say, however, I cringed when I read the thing about the pinking shears. Two generations of women have taught me never, ever ever to use fabric scissors to cut paper. My mom would get upset whenever I used them, and I never fully understood why - until now, after having bought my own $35 pair of (nice and sharp!) pinking shears. you can buy zig-zag (and wavy and other design) scissors in the scrapbooking section for around $5.
oh, don’t worry! my gramma is the craftiest of the crafty, and the one who taught me to sew. she definately had paper scissors and cloth shears well seperated.
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