Children like Christmas crafts a lot. Santa craft ideas for kids are a fun and relatively easy way to spend time with your children during the holiday season. Pick from a variety of our Christmas craft-decorating, free ideas.

SANTA PICTURE:
If you are looking for Christmas crafts and recipes geared for preschoolers, this picture-making activity is a good place to start. So, let’s begin creating Santa’s pictures from scratch. There are many different kinds of coloring books with Santa themes sold during Christmas. Get Santa’s picture from one of those books. Cut it out, and place Santa’s picture in the center of a sheet of thick, white construction paper. A glue stick will do fine to fasten it to the paper.

Color the picture with colored markers. Once the picture is finished, use cotton balls to serve as Santa’s beard, and one ball of cotton at the tip of his red hat. You can use black buttons to serve as Santa’s eyes and a red bead button for his nose. Decorate the rest of the area of the white paper by drawing candy canes or trees.

When the picture is finished, your children can sign their names right under Santa’s image. Take a piece of heavy cardboard and secure the picture to it. Put the picture in a frame to protect it. Place this frame in a memorable area of your house for all to look and admire.

SANTA CHRISTMAS CARDS:

Making Santa Christmas cards is another craft idea your kids will enjoy. Take a piece of white construction paper and measure the paper to a size of 5×7 inches. Cut the construction paper to that size. Fold the construction paper in half, either horizontally or vertically. Encourage your children to draw their own version of Santa on the front cover. Use crayons or colored markers.

After the picture is finished, your kids can write Christmas messages on the inside of the card. Homemade Christmas cards are wonderful to display in your home or send to relatives and friends. You can even add this to your Christmas craft-a-day calendar; it’s a great craft to do with your kids or students.

MAKE A SANTA PLATE ORNAMENT FOR THE CHRISTMAS TREE:

You’ll need crayons and markers; cotton balls, a dinner-sized paper plate, and color sparkles. Draw Santa, without his red cap, on the plate using the crayons or markers. Add the cotton balls for his beard. You can even glue the cotton balls into a V shape so that Santa’s beard hangs off the plate. The cotton balls can also be used for Santa’s hair, too.

Use a blue marker to color in Santa’s eyes, and a black marker to draw Santa’s glasses. Use red food color on a cotton ball to make Santa’s nose. You can color the rim of the plate with red or green and add color sparkles to it. Finally, place the Santa plate on the tree by inserting an ornament hook at the top of the plate.

As you can see, there are so many different ways to involve your kids in creating, making, and decorating Santa Christmas ornaments, pictures, and cards.

By: Kerry Beck..

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Kerry Beck wants to offer you special Advent activities to use in your Christmas & Advent celebration this season.

While many of us look forward to a birthday party and we remember them, our 1st birthday first party is one event that we know of only from photographs and tales from our family members. You will find that most parents usually plan their baby’s first party with great care.

To make any type of birthday a success there are a few items that you will need to look into. These items are of especial care when you are planning a one year olds birthday first party. The party can otherwise become a nightmare if you plan of lots of elaborate events.

For this type of 1st birthday party you will need to keep things in the party simple. You will need to plan on having lots of finger foods and filling snacks that your guests can munch on as they socialize at the party. These foods can be an assortment of sandwiches, mini pizzas or lots of different pizzas, hot dogs and burgers, fries with tubs of different sauces.

You can have many bowls of sweets and desserts like ice cream, caramel, éclairs, chocolates and cakes all laid out on a buffet style table. To have your younger guests laughing with enjoyment at your baby’s birthday first party you should plan on having different party games like Elephant Walk, Water Balloon Toss, Pass the Bubbles among a variety of activities.

For added enjoyment you can have lots of brightly colored balloons, tinsels and streamers flying around the site of the birthday. As birthday cakes are just about everyone’s favorite food you should buy a couple of large sized cakes in bright colors that has lots of icing all around it. The kids will love choosing a big piece of cake that is smothered in icing and you will see lots of sticky fingers and icing covered smiles wherever you look.

When you are looking at the different types of birthday cakes that you can buy for a birthday first party, you will see clowns, teddy bears, Scooby-Doo, My Little Pony, a fireman, a spaceman and even animal shaped cakes. These are just a few of the cakes that you can buy for your baby’s first birthday.

Now even though your baby is too young to understand and enjoy all of these activities that are going on you can plan on making the birthday first party that you are hosting a success with everyone else.

The way to achieve this is by seeing that everyone has plenty of food and drinks, lots of fun games and activities to take part in and the kids have goody bags that are filled to the brim with toys and sweets. This way your baby’s birthday first party will be a roaring hit and you can be sure that many people will talk about it for a long time to come.

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A timely new book explores the rights that American kids have. What rights they do-and don’t-have may surprise you.

A look at those rights can be found in “Kids Are Americans Too,” written by four-time No. 1 best-selling author and veteran television news journalist Bill O’Reilly. His first book for younger fans, “The O’Reilly Factor for Kids,” was the No. 1 best-selling nonfiction title for kids in 2005.

Back again with a dialogue on rights that may spark many discussions, O’Reilly and his co-author Charles Flowers dole out the kind of blunt, commonsense commentary you count on them for. Together, they explore questions being debated in and out of courts today, including:

• Can a kid wear an anti-gay T-shirt on campus?

• Does a school newspaper have the right to bad-mouth a principal?

• Does a mother have the right to eavesdrop on her daughter’s telephone conversations?

Some of the answers may surprise you, and all of them are likely to make you think.

Bill O’Reilly, a two-time Emmy Award winner for excellence in reporting, served as a national correspondent for ABC News and anchor of the nationally syndicated news magazine program “Inside Edition” before becoming executive producer and anchor of “The O’Reilly Factor.”

He is the author of “The O’Reilly Factor,” “The No Spin Zone,” “Who’s Looking Out for You?,” “The O’Reilly Factor for Kids,” “Culture Warrior” and the novel “Those Who Trespass,” and holds master’s degrees from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Boston University.

Charles Flowers, award-winning author or co-author of 62 books, has also written television documentaries, magazine articles, art and theater criticism, and opinion columns in such publications as The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and City Newspaper.

A former newspaper reporter, high school teacher and university professor, he wrote the screenplay for the feature film “The Nation” and, with composer Sorrel Hays, the three-act opera “Our Giraffe.”

By: Wendy Mitchell

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For more information, visit www.billoreilly.com or www. charlesflowers.com. Their book is available where books are sold. Do kids have the same rights as other Americans? A new book offers some surprising and thought-provoking facts.

As I’m sitting down to write this article Whitney Houston is crooning about “The Greatest Love of All” (I want to say it’s the radio but sadly, I’m playing her Greatest Hits CD… I’m a sucker for a feel good song) and it’s triggered some thoughts for me. Whitney is specifically referring to the love we have for ourselves as the greatest love of all, but what does that mean exactly? We’ve all heard the old adage “you can’t really love others until you love yourself” and yet most of us struggle, in real life terms, with being comfortable saying (out loud) “I love me!”

In The Secret Bob Proctor portrays the idea of loving yourself by enthusiastically kissing his own hand! What does it feel like to be THAT sure of who you are? I can tell you right now… it feels fabulous! It’s been a crazy journey to get to where I am today but I can honestly tell you that I love who I am, I’m proud of the woman I’ve become and I’ve earned this feeling. It came through blood sweat and MANY tears. But it is SO worth it. I wouldn’t change one single part of that journey. I am truly alive everyday of my life.

Katrina (Wilton – Co-Founder of Glow Health & Wellness) and I attended a Leadership workshop in 2002 where we took part in an exercise about discovering your ‘personal power’, it was challenging and frightening and it went something like this… One by one we took turns at standing up in front of the entire group and we had to yell as loudly and strongly as possible a phrase starting with ‘I am’. It had to be something relevant for us and we had to stick with that word and keep yelling until such time as the group unanimously clapped us to sit down. If even one of them wasn’t convinced then we had to keep going. How did they measure they’re conviction? Goosebumps. Yep that’s right… goosebumps. When you come from your true place of personal power, you can really feel it and, so can those around you.

Why do I tell you this story? To invite you to step up to your own personal power. Too often I see people living luke warm lives and believing that’s all there is to it. They stop expecting things to be different because they don’t know HOW to change them. We don’t always have the answers, we don’t always know the ‘how’ (honestly, we RARELY know the answers), but that’s the joy of life! Go out there and find the answers. Don’t do your best – DO WHATEVER IT TAKES. Being happy is worth it.

By: Sabrina Holmes

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Sabrina Maujean is a Director and Co-Founder of Glow Health & Wellness Pty Ltd. She is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Master Practitioner of Ericksonian Hypnosis, Master Results Coach and Performance Consultant.
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