I am not a craft person. Not enough patience or good ideas and I am overwhelmed when ever I try to find all the stuff needed to do crafts, BUT once a year I find I end up having a good time doing them with the kids. We always seem to make something around Christmas. The ideas we come up with are pretty humble but we all have a good time. 
Last year we made angels out of yarn, for the tree, and a silver angel, out of a cereal box and some wrapping paper, for the top of the tree… This year we have three plans and they have kept us busy most of the day.
Garlands of snowmen, gingerbread people and snowflakes for the kitchen (CHECK)Wreath out of some of the many pine cones collected off of our drive way (COMING SOON)
Decorate all the brown wrapped gifts ( COMING SOON)
The house is a disaster on craft day. All the chores get forgotten as we become wrapped up in our creations (another reason I don’t do this a lot). But today the paper clippings can keep building up on the floor and the dishes can wait for we are having a family adventure!
(Here we all are, still in our pj’s… breakfast clutter not yet removed from the table, we where all so eager to get started!)
TTFN
fun!! we’re hoping to bake & paint some play-dough Christmas ornaments this year, and maybe string some popcorn and cranberries. but first, i need to finish my scrapbook gifts.
a messy house is a sign of a good mommy. 😉
Very cool! Good for you for diving right into crafting with your kids even though it’s not necessarily your gift.
To me, Christmas is great for crafting… but that urge usually gets directed to floral crafts in our house… wreaths, centerpieces etc. :~D
wow, good work team!!
i had never noticed the brown paper packages tied up with string. they look so cute. 🙂
Yah, I think I added that picture after you had already read and commented on this post. We have done the brown paper for a couple years now. I just love how simple it looks and home-y. We also like it because if the kids are in need of something to do on a cold day we let them decorate them with stickers and crayons.