Sunday, October 13, 2013

Easy Children's Art Projects Double As Seasonal Decorations

By Kate Halfey


You can breathe new life to your home throughout the seasons and give them that fresh new look with decorative craft items. You can find a huge number of holiday-themed decorations by going directly to a craft store or decorating store. But, these decorations often come with quite a high price tag and buying special items in every holiday or occasion is simply not practical today. A good alternative can be found by letting your children create some cute seasonal decorations for your home.

For autumn decorations, you can let your children create a garland for the mantel by drawing and coloring pumpkins. String the pumpkins on some brown or orange ribbon. They could even create papier-mch pumpkins or gourds that would make excellent decorations. This is a great activity that can also help bring the family closer together. Your kids will enjoy the activity while at the same time spend quality time with their parents or relatives.

There are many great art projects for kids surrounding Halloween and this holiday is always fun for children. In such said events, kids are able to wear different costumes while roam around the neighborhood asking for different treats. You and your kids will find this a great opportunity to decorate their homes. Kids can be creative by making ghosts out of milk jugs by cutting out spooky eyes and mouths using black paper. A bright and colorful walkway on Halloween Eve can be made by gluing the paper to the jug and place LED lights inside the jug.

Thanksgiving is another fun holiday with tons of options to choose from. Take a large roll of paper for example and have children color it with leaves, pumpkins, pilgrim hats, the Mayflower, turkeys and other holiday themed items and use it as a table runner. Your children can even create place cards and placemats to use during Thanksgiving dinner. Consider creating woven placemats using brown and orange construction paper that are perfect for your dinner table.

Christmas and Hanukkah are also two fun holidays which gives children different art project option. Colorful long garlands out of red and green construction paper or dark blue and light blue construction paper can be made. Give your dinner table that perfect mood and feel by placing Christmas placemats made by placing a green tree on red paper and decorating the tree. Your windows should not be forgotten and cover pine cones with glue and then sprinkle with glitter and hang these in the window. Popsicle sticks can be glued into the shape of a Star of David and then decorated with blue beads, buttons or sparkles and these are fairly inexpensive.

For Christmas, Hanukkah or other occasions, you may also want to consider having your children create homemade cards. You can have cards created or just let your children create all of the family cards for you. If they are motivated and inspired, they can have quite a few finished before there is a need to mail them. Don't forget to include a family photo with your cards. These handmade cards will be very special keepsakes for the recipients.




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