There are many things which children can make at home as a gift for their fathers on Father

Christmas has become such a big holiday that it’s important to start planning for it months in advance. And in doing so, you can do some fun crafts with your kids to get ready for the big day!

Making your own stockings is a lot of fun. You should be able to find blank stockings at your local hobby store. Then get some fluffy paint in paint bottles and let your kids decorate their stockings, making them personalized is a lot of fun for the kids. You can also have them write their names in glue, then sprinkle glitter on the glue so their names are sparkle.

Making your own ornaments for your Christmas tree is also a lot of fun. Just like with your stockings, you can use glue and glitter, puffy paint. Or you can glue different colored strings or confetti on there to make your ornaments extremely unique and special.

At some craft stores, you can even get customized wrapping paper. So you could wrap all of your kid’s presents in wrapping paper with pictures of themselves, so they can easily find their presents on Christmas morning. Of course name tags work too, but customized wrapping paper is a lot more fun!

You can make a scrap book with your kids for Santa too. Have your kids write a letter to Santa and leave it with the cookies and milk for him to take with him. You could also have them write a letter about how good they’ve been, what presents they want and why they deserve those presents. This will encourage them to behave, at least until Christmas morning.

Speaking of milk and cookies, you could bake personalized cookies with your kids, let them decorate the cookies for Santa and maybe even use Christmas cookie cutters to get in the spirit of Christmas.

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This Mother’s Day Craft for kids to make is easy and mom will love it, we know all women love candles. Because heat is involved this mother’s day craft must be done under adult supervision. Sand candles are beautiful and very easy to make. The sand you need for this mother’s day craft for kids to make can easily be obtained from the beach, a garden store or even from a toy store. Lots of toy stores keep clean sterilized sand for kid’s sand pits. For me personally, I would prefer the sand from a toy store.

This is what you need for this easy craft:

* First, of course, your sand
* Candles (enough candles so you will have enough wax for the size and amount of candles you want to make)
* Wax crayons in the colors you prefer
* A cardboard box lined with a plastic bag (so the sand will not leak out and make a mess)
* A knife
* Newspaper
* Bowl, cups or anything in the shapes you would like to make your candles
* A fork
* A spray bottle filled with water
* A saucepan for melting the candles (It is best to use an old pan you do not use anymore)

How to do your easy kids craft for mother’s day:

1. Place your sand in the lined cardboard box.
2. Spray the sand with the water until it is moist enough to hold its shape when make a hollow in it.
3. Now, using your cups, bowls or any other mold you prefer, make a hollow in the sand.
4. If you want to make more than one candle at a time you must ensure that there is at least an inch between the hollows.
5. With your knife cut off a piece of a candle to use as a wick. Remember to cut it into such shapes that a little piece of wick sticks out from the wax so you can lit the candle when you want to use it. Obviously as many wicks as you need if you are making more than one candle. If you are making large candles it is also a good idea to use more than one wick for a really pretty effect.
6. Cut up the rest of your candles into small pieces to make the melting process easier.
7. With the help of an adult, melt your pieces of candles in your old pan over a medium heat.
8. When the candles are melted, fish out the wicks with a fork. You can of course remove them before hand and save yourself this rather dangerous part of this craft.
9. Remove the papers from your crayons and add the crayons to your wax to serve as dye.
10. Now you pour the wax into the hollows you made in the sand.
11. Wait a few minutes, just until the wax starts to harden, then you put your pieces of candles that are to serve as wicks in the middle of your candle or where ever you think it will look pretty.
12. Now you have to wait until your candles have hardened completely. Small candles will take about an hour and larger ones longer. Be patient, the end result is worth the wait.
13. When your candles have hardened, gently lift out of the sand and carefully brush of all extra sand.
14. Your candles are now ready for you to wrap as mom mother’s day gift.
15. This is one of our really fun and easy mother’s day crafts for kids to make.

Have a look at some more of the crafts Magriet has for you on her various sites. Make mom a photo decoupage cookie plate! or keep to the theme of candles and make mom lovely decorative candles or how about keeping to the decoupage theme and make mom a lovely decoupage cookie jar All Magriet’s sites are about family matters and fun things for families. Do have a look at these fun mother’s day crafts.

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This mother’s day craft for kids is suitable for small children. Make a gift for mom for mother’s day. The modeling clay can be bought at any crafts store and it dries very easily within a few hours. It is also best to buy small artificial flowers to use as flowers or, if you can find them, dried flowers and dry grass seeds will be even better. Of course, if the kids are a little older they can make flowers from buttons, florist wire and florist tape.*

Because the pots are small, this is a very good craft for developing the small motor muscle skills in toddlers.

This is what you need for your mother’s day craft:

* Modeling clay
* A pencil
* A thin stick to use for decorating the pot
* The flowers you want to use

Method for this mother’s day craft for kids:

1. Roll your modeling clay into a ball of the size you want your pot to be. (Not too big, as you are only going to make a hole for the flowers with your pencil.)
2. Make a hole in the pot by pressing the back of the pencil into the ball.
3. Shape your ball to form a pot with a flat bottom so that your pot can stand on it.
4. Decorate the pot by drawing patterns on it with a thin stick or a matchstick.
5. Arrange the flowers in the pot and then let it stand in a hot place to harden.
6. Now you have a beautiful flower pot as a gift for mom on mother’s day.

*To make “button flowers:”

1. Use a very small button and push florist wire through one of the holes from the bottom and then back from the top to the bottom through another hole.
2. Twist the two ends of the wire tightly around each other and cover it neatly with florist tape.
3. Now you have a “button flower.”
4. Make as many flowers ad you need.

Older children can make bigger pots and make the hole for the flowers with a thicker stick. You cannot make them too big though or they will take too long to harden and they will probably crack.

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