15 Holiday Crafts You Don't Want To Miss

Crafting is fun anytime of the year, though the holidays seem to have a sweeter handmade vibe to them. So if you're in the mood for having your kitchen table being taken over with glue guns, glitter and construction paper, check out these 15 craft projects that are sure to make your holiday gleaming and bright.

The Long Thread recently posted a mega- holiday craft list containing 100 arts and crafts projects to tackle this season. 100 projects is a little much to internalize all at one time, so we picked out 15 of our favorites, hoping you might like them as well.

Projects Pictured Above Are Bolded Below
• Elf Stitchette Pattern from Wee Wonderfuls
• Felted Candy Canes from Felt Cafe
• Yarn Christmas Trees from Pretty Ditty
• Half-Eaten Gingerbread Man from Elsie Marley
• Papier-Mâché Winter Village from The Long Thread
• Recycled Magazine Tree from Just Like Martha
• Flower Garland from Zakka Life
• Felt Hanukkah Bunting from Creative Jewish Mom
• Salt Dough Ornaments on Katy Elliott (made by evencleveland)
• Hanukkah Village from Brenda Ponnay for Alpha Mom
• Winter Houses from Twelve22
• Snow Globe from The Jr. Society
• Holiday Funtime Garland from Angry Chicken
• Hoop Snowman from Betz White
• Woodland Ornaments by Elsie Marley for Sew, Mama, Sew

(via: The Long Thread)
(Images: As linked above)

What great crafts. Thanks for sharing, I cannot seem to get enough of making crafts these days!

A 3-D snowflake to add to your must make craft list- http://thecitycradle.com/how-to-make-a-snowflake-decoration-photo-prop-free

posted by vicky @ thecitycradle on December 7th 2009 at 1:22pm
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Brenda Ponnay is the bomb.

posted by TheReignofEllen on December 7th 2009 at 2:47pm
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Here's a twirly snowflake. http://www.simplymodernmom.com/2009/12/twirly-paper-snowflake-tutorial/

posted by simplymodernmom on December 7th 2009 at 3:42pm
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Oh, I like the twirly snowflake also... Thanks for sharing. All these crafts are very inspiring.

posted by vicky @ thecitycradle on December 7th 2009 at 4:17pm
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love creative jewish mom! we just posted a bunch of Handmade hanukkah crafts too...
http://prudentbaby.blogspot.com/search/label/Handmade%20Hanukkah

posted by jaime5 on December 7th 2009 at 5:15pm
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I just made flower garden one! It looks so cute & it gave me something to do on this snow day. They would make perfect little gifts for friends & its free because I have so many magazines around. Thank you!

posted by zigzag on December 8th 2009 at 1:23pm
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That Katy Elliot link is busted. Try this:

http://www.katyelliott.com/blog/2009/11/diy-salt-dough-ornaments.html

Or this.

posted by Ulrika on December 9th 2009 at 4:02pm
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The recycled magazine tree was a cinch! I made one last night.

posted by T-da on December 11th 2009 at 4:17pm
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I love that half eaten gingerbread man, sorry I didn't come up with that one.

posted by citygirlincountry on December 15th 2009 at 8:52pm
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