Keep Your Kids Busy During Holidays

Looking to foster an atmosphere of creative fun during the busy holiday season? With supplies found around your house and yard and a few craft items, you can transform your table into a creative workshop for your children.

Try these activities at home for some holiday fun:

Action Leaves: Here s a fun technique to create beautiful action painted leaves for table decorations or window decorations. Cut out leaf shapes and gather marbles and/or small balls that you will dip into fall colors of paint. Place leaf cutouts in a box or a deep tray, and then dip marbles and/or balls in paint, tip the box or tray and let the marbles and balls roll around to create uniquely colorful leaves!

Master Leaf Art: Cut out fall leaves or collect natural leaves and create a fall collage by gluing them onto a stiff piece of paper, cardboard or even half of a file folder.

Make a Turkey! Cut out a bowling pin shape for the body from brown paper. Collect leaves or make your own. Glue these to the back of the wide part of the body for his tail feathers. Add eyes, a beak and feet.

Create a Leaf Printing: Collect fresh leaves and paint the backs. Now press to the paper. Use a variety of leaves and colors to overlap for a beautiful fall print.

Wrapping Paper and Bags: Use cookie cutters dipped in paint and stamp all over plain paper for fun gift-wrap. Do the same on plain bags for a festive look.

Snowflakes: Cut out snowflakes by folding round paper circles in half and half again and then once more. Cut snips of paper out of each side. Open to see the snowflake. Add sparkle by decorating with glitter glue.

We are delighted to share some engaging art projects to ignite children s imaginations, remarked Marla Hockfeld, Director of Abrakadoodle-Henderson/Las Vegas. Creativity needs to be cultivated in every child. For busy parents and caregivers, we also offer art vacation camps at convenient area locations.

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