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Holiday Crafts

Gifts Kids Can Make Themselves

By Marie-Helen Goyetche

You'll need:

Piece of cardboard
Yarn
Wooden ice cream stick

Take a piece of cardboard approximately 5 inches by 5 inches and wrap yarn around the cardboard piece about 37 times (your number must be an odd number). How many times you wrap it will depend on the size of your yarn or string.

Using the stick as a shuttle, show your child how to go over a string and under the next string and so on. Then show your child the do the opposite on the way back. (It's important to push down the yarn tightly.) Do this until the whole card is filled.

You'll have to help your child take off the finished piece. Make knots at the ends and cut off the excess yarn pieces. Place a coaster inside a pretty mug for a great gift!

You'll need:

White paper
Crayons or washables markers
Glue
Clothes pins
Self-adhesive magnetic strip
Scissors
Decorative ribbon

Cut out Christmas shapes from white paper. Have your child add details and color with crayons or washable markers. Glue the back of the shape to a wooden clothes pin, making sure the bottom is close to the clip part of the clothes pin. On the other side of the clothes pin, attach a piece of the self-adhesive magnetic strip. Tie a ribbon around an arrangement of three or four holders as a gift set.

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