Today I began looking for crafts I can do for Christmas. Last year I started a new tradition with our children; we made our first annual Christmas tree ornament. There are many other families out there in blog land doing the same thing. I like to use up things I have left over from other projects, so my children and I made felted wreaths. The only difference was we used left over fleece from ponchos I had made for the fall weather. Over the course of this past summer I found two whole boxes of yarn at yard sales. On top of this I was given quiet a bit when a friends mom passed away. In holding true to the Depression motto I mentioned in a prior post, we will be using some of that yarn for this year's ornament. We will be making Sparkly Yarn Ornaments and possibly Felt Gingerbread Man Cookies. The gingerbread cookie idea would give my daughter a chance to practice some beginning sewing by hand skills.
If you would like to find other Christmas ornaments you can make with your own family you might want to start looking at ideas at The Crafty Crow or The Magic Onions. I know there are a whole store of sites out there to help you get started with your own frugal Christmas crafting with the children, but I just wanted to give you a jump start and help get the creative juices flowing.
I would like to thank the people whose websites I linked to here on this post for their wonderful ideas to make Christmas a memorial time with my family. To me it's more about the quality time spent with them than it is the expensive gifts I could buy. Since each child makes their own we will be giving their ornaments to them to add to their trees when they leave home; hopefully this will help the memories of the time we spent making them as a family live on.
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