Christmas should feel good!
Christmas to me is about family and fun!
Finding ways to help others, special surprises and beautiful creative handmade gifts have always been a favorite of mine. Treasures that bring smiles to your loved ones because they know they were created from your heart.
My mother always makes these very special christmas cards, often using old christmas cards to create something new and adorable. She adds embellishments and they are just adorable. I honestly think that I love looking at her special cards and gift tags better than the gift inside.
As a mother, nothing has touched my heart more than those special handmade gifts that my children have created for me. My daughter once made a cookbook with recipes cut from magazines at school. I still have that very special cookbook to this day, some eighteen years later just looking at it warms my heart with sweet memories.
Our family has a family tradition of making gram cracker houses for christmas. Each person brings some different type of candies, frosting and foil covered recycled cardboard to place our treasured houses on while we build them. Frosting glues the walls together. It really isn't about the end product of who builds the best house, but the fun we share and love for one another as we share that special time together.
Christmas should feel good! I have created a list of different ideas from others. Fun crafts and ways to "go green" and recycle those things you would probably just throw away, make some adorable gifts and share time with your loved ones this christmas.
Fun Crafts and Ideas for a Green Christmas
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Green Christmas Crafts that are adorable.
What a better way to have some fun, while feeling good about going green and helping keep some waste out of our landfills.
Check out some of the innovative ways that creative people have come up with to make a green christmas fun!
- Paperback Christmas Tree Craft
Recycle those old paperback books and old readers digest magazine.
How to use a paperback novel to make a Christmas tree decoration.- How to Make a Spool Lighthouse Decoration for Christmas
Recycle those empty thread spools and bottles.
How to make a Christmas lighthouse decoration from a recycled spool.- Recycled Coat Hanger Christmas Tree
Recycle six wire coat hangers and Christmas garlands to make a Christmas tree.- Homemade Victorian Juice Lid Ornaments
Make your own Victorian ornaments from juice can lids, greeting card or wrapping paper pictures, and leftover trims.- Tomato Cage Christmas Tree
How to make a Christmas tree with a tomato cage base.- Birch Branch Reindeer Decoration for Christmas
How to make a natural reindeer decoration from birch branches for Christmas decorating.- Recycled Film Canister Soldier Ornament
How to make your own toy soldier ornament from recycled film canisters.- Paper Bow: How to Make Paper Bows from Recycled Wrapping Paper
How to recycle wrapping paper to make paper bows.- How to Make a Candy Cane Vase
If you are like me you always have candy canes left over for years from christmas' past. Try this fun craft to make a creative christmas decoration.
Cover a tin can with candy canes to make this homemade gift of a candy cane vase filled with evergreen trimmings.- Soda Bottle Cap Christmas Ornament Craft
Recycle soda bottle caps and make a unique Christmas ornament with this free craft project.- Egg Carton Candy Wagon - Christmas Craft Project
Recycle an egg carton and make a candy wagon for Christmas.- Coffee Creamer Snowman - Free Christmas Craft Project
Use a coffee creamer container to make a snowman decoration for Christmas- Paperback Snowman
How to recycle a paperback novel to make a snowman.- Mr and Mrs Mitten Snowman Decoration
Have your babies outgrown those mittens, recycle them. Use two small mittens to make Mr and Mrs Mitten Snowman figures for Christmas decorating.- Medicine Bottle Snowman Craft - Prescription Bottle Snowman
How to recycle prescription medicine bottles into snowman Christmas ornaments.- Recycled CD Snowman Craft
How to make a snowman from a recycled CD and a juice can lid.- Recycled Pill Bottle Snowman
How to make a snowman ornament from a recycled pill bottle.- How to Make a Gourd Snowman Craft
So you grew the gourds in your garden, now what to do with them?
How to make a gourd snowman for Christmas crafting.- Paperback or Reader's Digest Santa Claus
How to use a paperback book or Reader's Digest magazine to make a Santa Claus decoration.- How to Make a Christmas Card House from Recycled Christmas Cards
How to recycle old or used Christmas cards and make them into a Christmas card house.- Pringle Can Christmas Card Display
Recycle a pringle container to display your Christmas cards.- Christmas Crafts: Recycled Christmas Card Ornaments
Recycle Christmas cards into delightful Christmas card ornaments in a spherical ball shape.- Recycle used Christmas Cards into New Christmas Cards
How to recycle old or used Christmas cards into a completely new Christmas cards, ready to mail in our printable envelope.- Recycled Christmas Cards - Christmas Card Angels
How to recycle old Christmas cards into Christmas card angels.- Greeting Card Placemats - Recycled Christmas Card Placemats
How to Christmas cards, or other greeting cards, to make decorative placemats.- Recycled Christmas Card Puppets
How to make miniature puppets from Christmas cards.- How to Recycle a Light Bulb
How to recycle household light bulbs, with Christmas, Halloween and home decorating light bulb projects to make yourself.- How to Make Recycled Christmas Tree Ornaments - Make Green Christmas Tree Ornaments
Go green at Christmas time and decorate your Christmas tree with recycled items! Find out how you can make ornaments out of light bulbs, toilet paper rolls, CDs, and other items.- 9 eco-friendly holiday decorating ideas
9 eco-friendly holiday decorating ideas- Green Christmas Greeting
Green Christmas Greeting- Recycle Christmas Cards - Charities and Christmas Crafts
Learn how to recycle Christmas cards. Charities in the United States and United Kingdom accept Christmas cards in recycling programs. This article describes several holiday-themed, quick and easy craft projects you can do with recycled Christmas cards, like ornaments, jigsaw puzzles, gift tags, and
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What is Christmas about to you?
What does Christmas mean to you
For me it is...
MeltedRachel says:
Do you know what? I'm not even sure anymore.
I find it hard to know what to think about Christmas - there just seems so much negativity around it for me - the waste, the stress etc.
I'm sure my feelings will change if I ever have children though! And I adore all the craft ideas on this lens!
My favorite memory is...
ArtByLinda says:
Every Christmas eve we get together with family and have a white elephant gift exchange. No pressure to buy, you can just bring something you have. We have a lot of fun and great family time together!
Christmas fun for making memories
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I hope you enjoy time with each other this Christmas.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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MeltedRachel
Sep 26, 2010 @ 5:31 am | delete
- Great lens! Thank you for sharing all these ideas!
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awelldressedbullet
Sep 25, 2010 @ 8:34 pm | delete
- The perfect green Christmas to create wonderful family memories
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