today's craft is a christmas wreath made out of paper.
we started with a paper plate and cut out the center.
then painted it green with acrylic craft paint.
while it dried we cut holly leaf shapes out of green paper.
we used heavier scrapbook paper (since i don't scrapbook anymore…)
i drew a leaf and we traced it on the paper a bunch of times.
i helped them along by stacking four leaf sized pieces of paper and cutting them all at the same time.
repeating that process a few times made it go a little quicker.
we used between 30 and 40 leaves on our plate.
we folded them down the center for some depth.
we used a hot glue gun to attach the holly leaves.
you could use school glue but it would take longer and may not hold as well.
we glued some with the fold pointed up and some with fold angling down.
nestling the leaves into each other, overlapping each other until the entire green circle is covered.
using a circle punch we made red circles for holly berries.
you could, of course, just cut out some small circles with scissors…but punches are so fun!
we hot glued those in clumps of two or three on the leaves.
talby added glitter to those.
to make the bow we took a strip of red paper…. about 10" x 2" and folded it into the loop shapes.
we hot glued that in the center so it would stay.
then took a smaller 2" x 4" strip of red paper and wraped it over the front of the loops for the center of the bow.
we cut two strips for the ribbon that hangs down and glued it to the back of the bow.
ANd hot glued the bow to the holly leaves.
i used a small piece of yarn and hot glued it in a loop to the back for hanging.
isn't it cute?!!
we were inspired by this one from the Paper Source.
we had all the supplies so instead of spending $19.50 on it…we made it for free!
we sent it in the mail to my great aunt who is 101 years old for some christmas cheer.
and a pair of Santa Claus socks.
🙂
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did you have a good weekend?
i am happy to report the remainder of my weekend was CLEAN and decent.
i watched 5 basketball games of my kids.
i got to play with babies in the church nursery.
i took annie to pick our some christmas gifts for her to give her siblings.
i finished our indoor decorations.
craig made sunday lunch….Pancakes.
i made saturday night dinner….Lynette's Noodles with Ham.…one of my kids' FAVORITE meals.
i searched our entire town for peppermint ice cream with no luck….bummer.
we watched home alone as a family last night…with a cozy fire in the fireplace….and had milkshakes after.
so even with the crazy friday that i had….it all turned out ok.
i knew you guys would like that story.
who wouldn't?!
it makes you appreciate ANY day that goes by without cleaning poo off of anything.
Courtney - Hey! I haven’t been around blogland too much lately, but I just saw your Mpix add in Prof. Photographer, so I thought I’d come say hi 🙂 It’s great! Congrats on everything!
Sidenote *my husband makes icecream for a living… I can get whatever I want, whenever I want 🙂 lol!
Kimber-Leigh - Braums has peppermint ice cream year-round. 🙂 It’s my favorite brand of peppermint too!
Kerry - oh this is too cute Meg!
Lisa - Super cute wreath!
Allison - Did you try ALDI for the ice cream, they have it here in Carthage. A great place to find fun holiday goodies that many forget about!
Amber L Peters - that wreath is so cute!
Peppermint stick ice cream is our FAVORITE in our household! We always look forward to it this time of year!
Dairy Queen has candy cane blizzards if you are in a pinch- and they are YUMMY. Also, Pioneer Woman recently posted a recipe for peppermint ice cream. I just bought the ingredients to try it! I think her recipe calls for vanilla extract, but i think i might try it with peppermint extract. Although, usually her recipes are amazing….
Ashley - I just want you to know how much I enjoy your blog, your craft time with your kids, and your creativity! So much so I dreamed last night that you and I were hanging out in my kitchen like old time friends oodling over new craft ideas and fabrics we were going to use to create things 🙂 I hope to one day meet you in person and maybe be lucky enough to attend a Craft Weekend getaway! Hugs from VA
Tressa - We always make peppermint milkshakes after we decorate the tree.
We simply add crushed candy canes to our vanilla ice cream. I used to be stuck whacking at the canes with a hammer, but now the kids like to take a turn at it. Just put the unwrapped canes in a large ziploc freezer bag and cover with a kitchen towel and start whacking away. You could put them in the processor ,but that would be the easy way!! either way make sure you mix the milk and ice cream first and then add the peppermint last,elsewise you gum up the mixer with the candy and it will not mix well. Merry CHRISTmas!
Mary - Do you have a Braum’s nearby? I love their peppermint ice cream.
Meredith N. - You should try Pioneer Woman’s recipe for peppermint Ice Cream, it looks delish, http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/12/peppermint-ice-cream/
julie - No peppermint ice cream around these parts either. WHAT IS THE DEAL?
But no poop. As in a kid is having a whole different kind of poop issue. Which is it’s own kind of not fun.
Glamourous. Oh such a glamourous life we lead.
annonymous - You really don’t scrapbook anymore? Will you scrapbook again somday soon? No time or are you all digital? Just curious! 🙂
Michelle From Australia - Why is peppermint icecream SO hard to find? I’m having the same problem here in Brisbane (city of over one million people), Australia. My son LOVES his ‘green’ icecream but I have only found ONE supermarket with it. Which is where I will be going this afternoon.
p.s. The bauble wreath that I made following your Mama Craft Day from last year is proudly hanging in our stairwell. I’ve received TONS of compliments on it. And a few requests for me to make some for people. Who would have thought, no craft me, making craft for others. Meg, you can work wonders!!
Tammy (Not Merely A House) - Such a cute craft! So glad you had a great weekend!
Jenna@CallHerHappy - I’m glad the rest of your weekend wasn’t as poopy! I can’t wait until my gal is old enough to craft with me!
Jenna
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Astrid - Oh! I am in love with that wreath! That looks like a craft project we can manage while we are living in China. We are leaving at the beginning of January! Ack! Needless to say it doesn’t feel very christmassy around here. 🙁
amy - love how the wreaths turned out and it’s funny because we just made the cardinal ornaments also from the paper source site…ummm…not paying for the kit when i have construction paper and scissors, is what i thought when i saw them, too : )
Cheryl E. - You make me laugh!
Southern Gal - I was going to ask you what you do with all the crafts your kids create? Do you keep them for a while and then toss them after taking pictures? Give them all away? How do you manage all that? I would love to know!
amanda - This is so cute! I’ll have to do this with my crew this week. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Alaina Bennett - Meg~ I’ve seen peppermint ice cream at Walmart. It wasn’t with all the ice cream but an end cap of special ice creams (did that even make sense?). Anyway, i live in a different state than you so maybe yours has it too. Good luck
Alicia @ La Famille - love your craft!! and so glad you had a better weekend…no poo involved 🙂 did you get your washer fixed?? this is an essential thing, girl!!
tiffany gardner - so sweet! glad there was no poo involved for your weekend.
Sarah - I remember making these in school! You think of such great thing Meg!
Jennifer - Yummy…peppermint ice cream. 🙂 Love the craft idea–thanks for sharing.
Sarah - What a great weekend (after a bit of a rough start…)! That wreath is gorgeous!
happygirl - I went to AC this weekend and won $30. It was AWESOME. LOVE the wreath. I miss the crafting by kids at my house. 🙂
Lori Austin - So glad your weekend turned around.
No cleaning poo – yeah!
Super cute craft – yeah!
Family movie night with milkshakes – yeah!
My weekend highlights were watching The Holiday alone and drinking my first cup of eggnog for the season. Yeah for me!
Cutting tons of snowflakes from coffee filters and attaching them all over the sliding glass door with my daughter.
Finding the Bob’s peppermint sticks at Wal-mart!
Leah - Sounds like a lovely weekend! We’ve already watched Home Alone a few times. It’s required December watching. And totally know what you mean about the peppermint ice cream. I actually like it year-round and yet it’s off the shelves in December. I actually found peppermint bark ice cream. It’s heavenly and best part is I don’t have to share it since my husband’s not a peppermint fan 🙂
Jackie - Did you try Walgreens for the peppermint icecream? We got some from Walgreens right before Thanksgiving. Yum-o!
Tina Jacobsen - Love the craft…totally doing this one with my girl!! And we have all the supplies in the craft cupboard!! Excited to see what’s next…we are total crafters here!! I’ve never had peppermint ice cream…putting that on my list this week..hope I can find it 🙂
Tina
Laura Phelps - crafting is much better than cleaning poo 🙂
seriously sassy mama - I love the wreath. My girls wold so love making one of those. I think it will be one of the crafts we make while we are on Christmas break. Cannot wait to see what you have next!
elisabeth (bovagoods) - oh, i just hate it when i can’t find peppermint ice cream! it’s one of my favorites and i think it’s a darn shame that it’s “seasonal”. i hope you find some soon!
Kristen - Do you have a Fresh and Easy grocery store close by? Best Peppermint icecream EVER.
Maya Catching Butterflies - Love it!!
Holly - cute wreath! I found peppermint sugar cookie dough this weekend! We cant wait to try it!
Nancy - That craft looks perfect. SImple, independent, colorful, perfect. Next week, we are adding that our list. thankyouverymuch!
I totally appreciate your story. How about this one: my dog ate a popsicle out of my kid’s hand. He pooped it out. It looked like a corndog. Sorry. Had to share.