Crafts are fun anytime of the year, but they are especially nice during the holidays. Cinnamon apple ornaments and Christmas crayons are simple to make, and kids will have a blast thinking up ways to use these crafts. Cinnamon apple ornaments fill the house with the scent of the holidays. After they're decorated, children can hang the ornaments from the Christmas tree, mantel, door, or other places around the house.
Melting crayons and reshaping them into snowmen, Christmas trees, reindeer, gingerbread men, and other holiday shapes can breathe new life into them, and make coloring holiday pages more exciting.
How to Make Christmas Crayons
Materials needed:
- red, green and yellow crayons
- Christmas shaped candy molds
- 3 small aluminum pie tins
Directions:
Remove the paper from the crayons and put them into the pie tins (one crayon color per pie tin). Place the crayon-filled pie tins in a 300 degree oven to melt the crayons. Once the crayons are melted, carefully remove the tins from the oven. Pour the wax into the candy molds, and let it cool for three hours. After the crayons cool, pop them out of the candy molds.
To prevent serious burns, an adult should remove the tins from the oven, and pour the hot wax into the molds.
How to Make Cinnamon Apple Christmas Ornaments
Materials needed:
- 1 cup of applesauce
- 1 cup of ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup Elmer’s (or similar brand) white glue
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. Gather small amounts of the dough and roll it into balls. Place the rolled dough, one piece at a time, between two sheets of waxed paper and roll them flat with a rolling pin. Use Christmas-shaped cookie cutters to cut the dough into fun holiday shapes.
Use a pencil, thick needle, or other object to poke a hole in the top of each ornament. Either let the ornaments sit for 4 days to dry, or put them on a nonstick cookie sheet, and pop them in a 200 degree oven for two hours. If you dry the ornaments in the oven, flip them over halfway through the process. Once the cinnamon apple ornaments are dry, kids can loop ribbon through the holes, and decorate them with beads, glitter and other trinkets.
Cinnamon apple ornaments are not edible. Supervise young children carefully during this activity to ensure they don't put the ornaments into their mouths.
Letting youngsters make Christmas crayons and cinnamon apple ornaments is the perfect way to usher in the holidays while giving their busy little hands something exciting to do.
Charlina Stewart - Charlina has dedicated more than a decade of her life making a positive difference in the lives of children. During her time as an early ...
