Catherine Woram - Fun Christmas Crafts to Make and Bake: Over 60 festive projects to make with your kids

fun Christmas crafts to make and bake over 60 festive projects to make with your kids Annie Rigg & Catherine Woram photography by Lisa Linder and Polly Wreford Senior designers Toni Kay and Megan Smith Editors Annabel Morgan and Cline Hughes Location research Jess Walton Picture research Emily Westlake Production Gary Hayes Art director Leslie Harrington Editorial director Julia Charles Stylists Catherine Woram and Annie Rigg Prop stylist Liz Belton Indexer Hilary Bird First published in 2012 by Ryland Peters and Small 2021 Jockeys Fields London, WC1R 4BW and 519 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10012 www.rylandpeters.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Text Annie Rigg, Catherine Woram and Ryland Peters & Small 2012 Design and photographs Ryland Peters & Small 2012 eISBN 978-1-84975-402-6 ISBN: 978-1-84597-273-2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, apart from the templates on pages 154155, for personal use only. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. US Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication data has been applied for. Printed and bound in China Contents introduction Christmas is the perfect time for kids to get creative. When the weather gets chilly and the mood gets festive, the projects in this book are a brilliant way to keep little hands busy getting ready for the holiday season.

Whether making decorations for the tree, cards to give to friends and family, or treats for a Christmas party, there is something to interest any child, and the wide variety of fun projects will appeal to younger children as well as experienced crafters and bakers right up to the age of 10 and beyond. Fun to Make! includes many of the traditional crafting techniques from sewing a gorgeous shaker-style stocking to using paper-cutting techniques to make decorative snowflakes and lanterns. Kids can have fun modelling and painting clay tree decorations, or using potato printing to create fun wrapping paper and cards. Let your kids go wild exploring their creativity and adding their own personal embellishments to the finished items! Fun to Bake! will show you that Christmas is also the perfect time to get kids interested in food and cooking. Steeped in tradition and distinctive flavours, there is nothing quite like cooking up a bche de Nol or a gingerbread house. Simple treats such as peppermint creams or coconut ice are perfect for younger children to make, and, packaged prettily in homemade gift boxes and bags, make great gifts, too.

Recipes for baked treats are ideal for older children and include an easy fruitcake and iced Christmas tree cookies they can decorate using all manner of festive sprinkles and edible sparkles. This year, make your family Christmas a homemade one with these enjoyable, creative projects that are sure to have grown-ups rolling up their sleeves and joining in the fun, too! You will need:paper pencil cardboard scissors assorted balls of wool 3-D fabric pen in red approx 10cm/4in gingham ribbon per bauble wind the wool Trace the disc template on onto paper and cut it out. Place it on a piece of cardboard and draw round it. Repeat. Cut out the two discs. Cut a length of wool about 2m/2yd long and wind into a small ball that will fit through the hole in the discs.

Start to wind wool around the discs, binding them together. When the ball of wool is finished, tie the end to the beginning of a new one. Continue to wind wool round the discs until they are completely covered. cut around the outside When the winding process is complete, hold the pompom discs securely and cut around the edges of the wool using scissors. The wool will fall away from the disc and look like fringing at this point. secure the wool Cut two lengths of wool about 20cm/8in long and thread between the two cardboard discs. secure the wool Cut two lengths of wool about 20cm/8in long and thread between the two cardboard discs.

Pull them together tightly and knot tightly. The loose ends of this wool will form the hanging loop for the decoration, so tie another knot about 8cm/3in from the first knot and neatly trim the ends. finish off Gently pull the cardboard discs away from the pompom. If it proves difficult, just cut them off. Trim any excess bits of wool, and fluff the pompom to give it a nice round shape. robin tree decoration Make a small pompom in brown wool for the head. robin tree decoration Make a small pompom in brown wool for the head.

Now wind brown wool around one half of two larger pompom discs and red wool around the other half. Snip around the edges of the disc and secure the pompom with a length of wool. Use the wool ends to tie the two pompoms together to form a robin. Add a triangle of red felt for his beak and bend brown pipe cleaners into shape for his feet.