Dec
30
Holiday Projects For An 8 Yr Old?
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JayMay asked:
Ive been dating this guy for about a year now, and this is the first christmas we are spending together…He has a 8 year old son and a 3 year old son. Whats some things i can do with the boys to get them ready for christmas?
Crafts, baking, decorating…anything….
I want this Christmas to be special, because its our first one, all of us together as a family.
Any suggestions?
Holiday Wear
Ginge bread houses!!!
Making Memories through Special Ornamentshttp://holidaydecoratingcenter.com/ornaments
You cold make fun snowmen out of cotton balls. You could make those chains made out of construction paper and decorate the christmas tree. Have fun making Christmas cookies. String popcorn or Cheerios on a string and decorate the Christmas tree. Watch Christmas movies and drink hot chocolate. Read Christmas book.
Find the Perfect Tree
When I was a kid my best friend would come over before Christmas and we would do crafts together. Our favourite was to make angels, that my mom would put on the tree. Here is what you need:
- Styrofoam balls
- heavy card / bristol board
- doll hair
- googley eyes
- dowel or bbq skewers
- glue
- Paper doilies
- glitter, nice paper, decorations, etc.
You cut out a circle out of the board, cut a slit through its radius and glue it together to make a cone. Then you put a piece of dowel through the top of the cone and through a Styrofoam ball to make the head. you may need to glue it in place.
Then just decorate it! Add the hair, eyes, wings, and whatever else your imagination can think of!
My mom still has the angels I made, and still pulls them out ever Christmas even though they are almost 15 years old.
Enjoy!
Shimmer and Glimmer with Holiday Lights!http://holidaydecoratingcenter.com/lights
It’s basic, but have you thought about making a gingerbread house? Then everyone can participate. Also, decorating cookies is always fun and the boys feel as though they helped a lot so they will be proud in showing off.
You can make paper chains for the christmas tree or make paper snowflakes to hang around.
A countdown calendar is always fun too…make one together and think of fun things to do on certain days as you are counting down to the big day. Then you have a bunch of little things to look forward to and you all participated in planning them.
Holiday Collectibles
Have them write letters to Santa, make milk and cookies for him the night before.
Let them help decorate the tree.
there is a lot you can bake together, made for kids helping you.
and you can just go on Google and type in decorating ideas for christmas with kids.
it shows crafts and other decorating ideas.
hope I helped, (:
Spruce Up Your Table with Fancy Linens
I have done this project with children of all ages for years. It is simple, inexpensive, yet fun for your boys! Get a huge box of popsicle sticks. Criss-cross them to look like snowflakes. You should hot glue these before they get there, and give them numerous types of decorative things and craft pieces such as: googly eyes (little boys like strange things), pom-pom balls, glitter glue, markers, glitter, feathers, cereal pieces, ect…and let them have fun with it! Make a lot of them until they become bored and decorate a tree with them! If you don’t have a Christmas tree or anymore room on your tree, hang them from doorways with pretty, festive-colored ribbon. Best of luck, and I hope you and your family have a lovely holiday season! Merry Chrismas!
Spruce Up Your Table with Fancy Linens
you can make a christmas chain!! you take strips of paper and decorated them then link them together and so is makes a chain. and the boys can rip one off every day to see how close christmas is.
hope i helped!!!
Holiday Collectibles
Christmas chain.
2 weeks before christmas make a chain.
and every chain write something u guys will do together as a family… for example build a snowman or make a ginger bread man. and every day you let a child open one and u do that activity that day! its gonna be a blast!
(:
Holiday Dinnerware for a memorable Holiday Dinner
If you can stand the mess, I would highly recommend baking cookies – maybe even Santa’s cookies. I bake a lot and I bake a lot with kids. I can honestly say that I’ve never met a kid that didn’t want to help. I let them do almost everything. If you really want to go all out, you can roll out sugar cookies, get cookie cutters to cut out shapes and let the boys decorate with colored icing.
A fun and easy holiday craft is to decorate pine cones like Christmas tree. Start with a outdoor walk (or run with boys!) and collect some pinecones on the ground. Then you can let them glue beads and what not to them and of course, glitter! Fun and easy.
Shimmer and Glimmer with Holiday Lights!http://holidaydecoratingcenter.com/lights
Well my kids aren’t boys but all three of them enjoy baking and making up baskets of goodies to drop off at local day cares and pediatric wing of the local hospital
Find the Perfect Tree
There’s numerous things you can do. Here are just a few ideas:
- Making gingerbread houses
You can find kits at craft stores.
- Hand-print snowmen ornaments
Get regular large, solid color ball ornaments, and paint the child’s hand with white paint. Then print the ornament with their hand, and add a hat and carrot nose to each finger so that it looks like a snowman.
- Make sugar cookies with fun Christmas cookie cutters.
- Make Christmas cards
- Get a mini Christmas tree, a roll of fishing wire, and a box or two of air dry clay. Make mini ornaments with the kids, paint them, let them dry, and hang them on the mini tree with the fishing wire.
- Go around in a circle and make a story about Christmas. Write the story down, and make a little book to keep out on a coffee table.
Happy holidays, and I hope you have fun with the boys!