A HAPPY HANDMADE HOLIDAY When Christmas comes around the stores are filled with beautiful but sometimes expensive decorations and holiday gifts This year try the projects in this book and you’ll soon be making your own holiday decorations and gifts using inexpensive crafting supplies and scraps of recycled materials from around your home All you need to do is follow the instructions throw in a little of your own creativity and you’ll soon be having a very happy handmade holiday Stay Safe It’s very important to have an adult around whenever you do any of the following tasks Use scissors Use a glue gun Use an oven 4
YOU WILL NEED To make the projects in this book you don’t need any special equipment just some basic crafting tools and supplies Scissors Duct tape Glue gun White glue Paints and paintbrushes Sticky tape 55
Recycled Christmas Door Wreath When Christmas comes around it’s traditional to welcome friends and family to your home with a colorful door wreath Using leaves made from recycled plastic containers you can create a funky weatherproof environmentally friendly holiday wreath for your door YOU WILL NEED A large piece of cardboard slightly bigger than a dinner plate A dinner plate A saucer A pencil or a marker Scissors Duct tape A small piece of cardboard Colorful plastic containers such as yogurt and juice cartons soda bottles and foil containers A glue gun 6
1 To make a frame for the wreath place a dinner plate upside down on the large piece of cardboard Draw around the plate 2 Now place a saucer upside down in the circle you’ve just drawn Draw around the saucer You should now have a doughnut shape drawn on the cardboard 3 Cut out the doughnut-shaped wreath frame Wrap the frame in duct tape so that it is weatherproof Template 4 To make the leaves for the wreath begin by drawing a leaf template on a piece of cardboard Cut out the template 7
