Over the Thanksgiving weekend, after Yip and Yap and I were sufficiently stuffed with turkey and pie and needed something to keep us busy during Yahoo's naptime, we sat down to work on some teacher Christmas gifts not loaded with sugar. I actually got this idea from Pioneer Woman last Christmas.
A nativity set! We spray painted some sanded scrap 2x4's and then hot glued scraps of fabric, felt, pipe cleaners and ricrac. I think we made 4 or 5 sets and it went much quicker than I anticipated.
Yap also found some ceramic floor tiles left in our garage from the previous owners. For the last couple of weeks he's been making tons of coffee coasters out of them; this is just a little sample of his creations. He covered them with watered down glue and tissue paper. After they dried we added a layer of polyurthene on top and glued felt to the bottom.
I've really enjoyed working on these projects with the boys. First of all it gets them really thinking about giving to others without just buying something off a shelf. Besides these gifts cost us practically nothing to make.
What about you? Are you making any handmade gifts to give this Christmas season?
Thank you for the ideal you posted in this website now I could use the extra tiles in our house and make it a special gifts to my love ones.
ReplyDeleteHow cute are you!?!?! Being a high school English teacher for 18 years, I pretty much totally forgot about the "give a teacher a present for Christmas" the first few years of preschool. LOVE these ideas! After this week, I am giving Christmas projects my undivided attention! (I have a craft fair this Saturday!)
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