Use the Faster Plaster and Christmas candy molds to make ornaments. Decorate them with paint or markers. Attach a hanger, pin backs, or magnets to the plaster mold.

Trace child’s shoe and both hands onto the paper bag. Cut them out. The shoe is the reindeer’s head, and glue on the hands to be the antlers. Glue on the pompom and ribbon, and decorate as desired.

Glue popsicle sticks together to form a triangle. Glue the puzzle pieces onto the triangle to make a frame.

Glue the picture behind the frame, and then glue the cardboard behind the picture. Add a ribbon for hanging.

Cut a gingerbread man shape out of the grocery bag. Color or decorate as desired.

Turn the bowl upside down and paint, allow it to dry. Cut striped of paper to make a paper chain for however many days there are left until Christmas; reserve on strip to attach chain to the bowl. Place dried bowl upside down on the table and poke a small hole in the center bottom. Bring two ends of a pipe cleaner together; stick ends down through the hole in the bowl until half of the pipe cleaner is through. To keep the pipe cleaner in place, twist it on each side of the bottom of the bowl, and put some glue on it.

Add the paper chain to the top of the bell, and tear off on chain link each day until Christmas. You can also use misc. supplies to decorate the bell.

Cut 2-3 feet of cling wrap and lay flat on table. Starting on one end, place candy in the center of the cling wrap. Do this the whole length of the cling wrap, leaving 2-3 inches between each candy. Fold the cling wrap over a few times -the long way- to seal the candy. Tie a piece of curling ribbon around the cling wrap in between each piece if candy. Tie the ends together to make a necklace.

1. With a little kitchen science you can create long lasting snowflakes as sparkly as the real ones.

   Cut a white pipe cleaner into 3 equal sections. Twist the sections together in the center so that you have a “six-sided” star shape.

2. If your points are not even, trim the pipe-cleaner sections to the same length. Now attach string along the outer edges to form a snowflake pattern. Attach a piece of string to the top of one of the pipe cleaners and tie the other end to a pencil (this is to hang it from). Fill a wide-mouth jar with boiling water. Mix borax into the water one tablespoon at a time. Use 3 tablespoons of borax per cup of water. Stir until dissolved, (don’t worry if there is powder settling on the bottom of the jar). If you want you can add a little blue food coloring now to give the snowflake a bluish hue. Insert your pipe cleaner snowflake into the jar so that the pencil is resting on the lip of the jar and the snowflake is freely suspended in the borax solution. Wait overnight and by morning the snowflake will be covered with shiny crystals. Hang in a window as a sun-catcher or use as a wintertime decoration.

Glue star, tree or whatever shape Mylar confetti you want to the “shiny” backside of the CD. Swirl patterns and dots of white glue and sprinkle with glitter. Tie a bow out of reflective Mylar ribbon and glue to the CD. Use a piece of self adhesive Velcro to attach the CD Christmas wreath to a computer, door, or where ever!

Thread the beads onto a pipe cleaner so they nest together. You can bend to shape a candy cane, a wreath or a star. You can also punch holes in ribbon and weave it onto the pipe cleaner, between each bead.

Draw a Christmas shape -such as a bell- onto the paper; tape the paper onto the table. Lay wax paper over the design, and tape it to the table. Trace design with glue, you will want it to be kind of thick.

Sprinkle glitter over glue. Allow to dry over night and then peel off of wax paper.