Christmas Crafts

[Karyn]

I've been having a Christmas Luncheon and Cookie Exchange for the last 15 years. In the last 4 years we have included doing a Christmas craft and the ladies really enjoy it and look forward to it every year. We have painted Christmas santa's on denim shirts, we made feather angels one year (what a mess but so much fun!!), we made coke can ornaments two years in a row because that's what the ladies wanted to do. I'm running out of ideas. Anybody real creative out there that can help me out Usually I buy all the craft supplies and then have the ladies just pay me back. It works out great.

[cerra71]

I am on my 4th year - our first year's "craft" was to split up - one group made chocolate covered spoons, and one group made hot chocolate mix. We made enough for each to bring home at least 3 bags of hot chocolate mix to give away. Last year, we made cinnamon ornaments, I had bigfoil roasting pans and they made their ornaments and layered them in the pan with card board seperating them to take home to dry (about 3 days). My friends groaned the first year I made them make a craft, but I think they look forward to it now. I usually coordinate my craft around the party theme, the hot chocolate went with my snowman theme, the cinnamon ornaments went with a gingerbread theme, I don't remember the other year what we did.