Sometimes when we craft I just put out the craft supplies and we just explore ways to use them. JDaniel and I sometimes end up with similar end products and other times we come up with totally different ideas. This is exactly what happen when we made these Christmas decorations.
After gathering a small stack of paper plates I cut out several different shapes that we could work with. I cut them out freehand so some of them look a little off. The star really ended up being a little different looking.
Sometimes I leave JDaniel to craft on his own. As he has gotten busy with preschool and with kindergarten looming on the horizon, I have tried to work on craft with him. If we aren’t working on the same project, we are working on parallel projects a lot now.
JDaniel made a wonderful wreath. He loves the hole punch so, it wasn’t a surprise that he punched a number of holes into his wreath. I love the weaving he did through the holes with a sparkly pipe cleaner. The wiggly eyes make me think that this wreath is taking in all that is around it. The spots of color around the wreath are fun too. JDaniel just kept changing crayon colors and coloring one spot beside the other.
Here are some more Christmas decorations:
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I love all the things you made with paper plates and a few other crafting supplies! So creative!!
Wow what a great way to celebrate Christmas. Again you are so creative…love it!
Oh those are so cute! We are going to be pulling out more Craft supplies this weekend. We may have to do some of these too!
Some of my most treasured ornaments are the ones made by the children while they were young. The first Christmas that comes around once each child is married, we pack up their special ornaments that have adorned our tree for years to gift them and their spouse.
With 5 of our children married, we are now adding ornaments from the grandchildren to continue to tradition.
Loved your article.
What a fun set of paper plate craft ideas!!
Creating together without any set agenda is when we have the best time. Lovely crafts!
What cute decorations!!!
Dawn
I love all your Christmas crafts! They’re beautiful!
Love that you let your son’s imagination run the way he wants and not the way you necessarily want!
How fun! I love that the projects are simple and inspire kids creativity!
These are adorable! Thanks for sharing. I need to get back at posting my weekly kids stuff.
So cute. I bet they loved making them.
These are darling decorations! Thank you so much for sharing them.
So cute!! You definitely have to learn to “let go” when crafting with kids! My twins are 9 and I am just getting the hang of that! My girls are creative and think outside the box on everything so, for their sake, I have had to embrace the true meaning of “crafts.”
Tiffany
Y’all made some adorable things!
How fun! 🙂 Your star looks much better than mine would! I can’t even draw a star, much less cut one out! lol!
Those are all cute ideas!
What adorable and SIMPLE ornaments! Even I COULD do that! lol
So cute. Love the crafts and how they are made out of paper plates! Great Idea 🙂
love the crafts!!!!
I love homemade crafts…I have some in the closet that I have saved. I love the wreath with the torn construction paper! 🙂
I love that you do this together. So incredibly sweet! I’m sure he’s going to have very fond memories of all these times. <3
LOVE paper plate crafts, they are thrifty and there are a billion things to create!
(and thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!)
Love it!!
And all just from paper plates!! How cute!
Wonderful decorations. You guys make wonderful memories together, all the time.
=)
These are adorable! As I’m typing this, the girls are working on a couple of paper plate angels. Thanks for the inspiration!