| Supplies
Needed:
Construction Paper (and any other colors you would like) -
Scissors - Glue or Tape - Crayons |
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Christmas time your little one will likely love having a decorated
tree in the house. This craft allows them to make their own
decorated Christmas tree. |
| Step
1: Take a piece of green construction paper and cut
it in half. With one half on top of the other cut out the
shape of a Christmas tree. If you want the Christmas tree
craft to be bigger you can use two whole pieces of construction
paper instead of two halves. Cutting the two trees at the
same time will make it easier to make them identical. This
is something that you might think about doing before your
little one is around if you want to avoid using scissors in
front of them as much as possible. |
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2: Cut a slit into the top middle of one of the identical
Christmas trees half way down the tree and cut an identical
slit in the bottom half of the other identical Christmas tree.
Cut out shapes for the ornaments that will go on your tree.
Again you can do these things before hand if you want to keep
the scissor cutting that you do with your child to a minimum.
There is no rule as to what your ornaments should look like,
different colored circles are great for the glass bulbs that
you see on a Christmas tree. |
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3: Slide the slits together so your two 2D trees
become one 3D tree. Lay the tree flat one side at a time and
help your toddler put a piece of tape where the two pieces
of construction paper meet. This will help your tree stand
on it own as well as make it easier for you or especially
your toddler to handle it while decorating it. You can just
do the taping on your own if that is easier, perhaps your
toddler could assist you in holding the tree down. |
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4: Help your toddler glue or tape the different shapes
that you cut out earlier for your tree ornaments all throughout
the tree. Stickers also make for a good way to decorate this
Christmas tree craft, especially if they are Christmas themed
or resemble real ornaments or your little one can color on the
ornaments for the tree. You and your toddler can enjoy this
wonderful craft as another Christmas decoration to be in your
home or you could give it as a early Christmas gift to a friend
of family member. |
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| Supplies
Needed:
Graham Crackers - Plate - Sticky Food (syrup, honey, peanut
butter or icing) - Decorating Food (Your choice) |
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little children are thrilled when they find out that during
the holidays is it common to bake a house of cookies. Ginger
bread houses are quite a process and with the aid of a toddler
that process can become very long. A quick alternative is
to make a graham cracker house with your toddler. |
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Step
1: Since you are working with a toddler it can help
if the plate that you use is plastic, and even better if it
is the toddler kind that suction cups to the surface of the
table. Line the outline of your graham cracker house with
honey (or icing, peanut butter, syrup, etc) making a square
shape. Make sure that you use a food that your toddler has
eaten before. This is certainly no time to try out new foods
with your toddler, if you don't plan on eating this craft
you can even use glue. |
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2: Take a whole graham cracker and gently break it
into two square halves. Repeat this with a second graham cracker.
This will create the four sides of your graham cracker house.
Next, help your toddler set each side of graham cracker standing
straight up in the honey (or what you used). Add a bit of honey
to the corners. Your little one can certainly give a go at the
breaking the crackers in half and hading the honey. |
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3: It helps to construct the roof prior to installing
in on to the top of the graham cracker house. Take a fourth
of a graham cracker and lay it flat. On either side of it
using honey connect it to another fourth of a graham cracker,
that is tilted sideways. Once secure you can connect the roof
to the top of the house using honey, the two sides that the
roof lays on can be lined with honey.
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4: Lastly you and your toddler can decorate around
the graham cracker house and on it using which ever foods that
you want. Again you should be cautious of introducing new foods
at this time. Plus you may want to stay away from a lot of sugar
if you little one plans to devour their little house after they
have made it. Unlike a ginger bread house if one of the walls
breaks, it isn't a big deal as long as you have graham crackers
on hand. |
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