Fun Crafting Ideas for Families Over the Holiday Break

Winter break is just around the corner!  We thought it would be fun to highlight some great activities and crafts for families.  Keep those kiddos busy and occupied with exciting activities, coloring pages, and keepsake crafting ideas for the holiday and winter season.  Some of the crafts here would even be great gifts from your little ones made special for relatives or grandparents!  Who wouldn’t love a sweet personalized ornament made by your little elves?  It’s a great way to spread festive cheer.

 

 

DIY Your Own Water Snow Globe

What You Will Need:

• Recycled or new glass jars with matching tight fitting lids or snowglobe containers

• Optional: decoupage and paper, spray paint, or felt for Jar Lid

• Hot Glue or E6000 Epoxy Glue or Super Glue (both to be used by adults)

• Glitter and/or small sequins

• A small container of glycerin

• Miniature toy cars or miniature figures that fit on jar lids

• Distilled water

 

 

How to Make It:

 

Paint or decoupage your lid if desired. Arrange your decorations on the jar lid, and secure them with the glue.  Allow to dry fully (check glue container, tube, or glue sticks package for dry time.)

 

Once your decorations are glued and dry.  Add your glitter or sequins to the clean, empty jar, add ½ teaspoon or so of glycerin to the jar, and pour distilled water into the jar until it’s just about full, leaving room for your decorated lid to fit inside.

 

Add glue to the edge of your jar lid, secure it tightly to the top of the jar and allow the glue to fully set and dry (yes, your decorations will be upside down until the glue is fully dry and sealed!)  Add glue around the edges of the seal once the lid is applied.

 

Once the glue is all dried and fully sealed, flip your jar over, and voila!! It’s a snow globe you’ve made all on your own!

Crafts for Kiddos Who Love Cars:

• DIY Car Magnets

• Footprint Racecar Valentines

• Build a Cardboard Box Car

• Easy Jingle Cars Ornaments

• Car in a Snowglobe Jar

• DIY Christmas Wreath with Cars

• DIY Wreath for the Car to decorate your vehicle

General Crafting Fun for the Whole Family:

 

• 15 Crafts You Can Make While Traveling

• Melted Snowman DIY by Darice made from felt and foam

• Gorgeous Sparkling Icicles for hanging on the tree or from your window

• Snow Slime in a Jar for hands-on sparkling, squishy sensory play

• Any of these Ice and Snow experiments when the weather gets chilly

• DIY Twinkling Snow Puffy Paint for making snowmen or painting winter landscapes

• Oil Pastels and Watercolour Resist artwork for painting snowflakes and more

• Frosted Sparkling Winter Pinecone decorations or ornaments

• Sand Art Menorah for Hanukkah (or swap up the colours for Kwanzaa!)

• Mixed Media Flower artwork and designs

• Pom Pom Hot Cocoa mugs with marshmallows for kiddos

• Peace Sign Pom Pom wreath for the home or gift giving

• Foam Cup Snow Owl  craft for the wizard world or bookish kiddos

• Arctic Animal Snow Globes with wildlife figures for the nature lovers

• Observational Drawing exercises for children

• Monoprinting with Kids to practice fine art technique

• Melted Bead Suncatchers craft for parents and children together

• Making Rainsticks for sensory play and music time