Holiday Plates Craft

Materials Required:

• White Plates
• Pencil
• White Glue
• Glitter or paint
• Hole Punch
• String

Instructions:

1. With the pencil, draw your snowflake design lightly onto a white plate.
2. Once you are satisfied with the design, take the white glue and trace your picture. Make sure to leave thick glue lines that stand out from the plate.
3. If you're using glitter, spread the colour over the glue while it is still wet. Let the glue dry and brush the excess away.
4. If you're using paint, wait for the glue to dry and then paint it the colours you want.
5. Once your snowflake is finished and dry, punch a hole through the top rim of your plate. Tie a string through the hole and hang your craft where everyone can see.

Materials Required:

• White Plates
• Black Construction Paper
• Orange Construction Paper
• Brown Construction Paper
• Coloured Construction Paper
• Extra Large Coloured Construction Paper
• Cotton Balls
• White Glue
• Scissors

Instructions:

1. Take the extra-large coloured construction paper, we used blue, and lay it flat to create the background.
2. Position two white paper plates to form the body and head of the snow person. Cut the outer rim of the head plate off to make the it slightly smaller than the body. Glue the plates in place.
3. Cut out the hat, eyes, mouth, and buttons out of the black construction paper and glue it in place. The hat stands a bit off the background to give it a 3D look, but if you want you can place cotton balls behind the hat to hold it up.
4. Grab the orange construction paper to cut out a carrot-shaped nose. Glue it down.
5. Use the regular sized coloured construction paper to make a ribbon for the snow person's hat. Make sure to glue it.
6. Cut out your snow person's arms using the brown construction paper. Once you have them positioned just right add glue to hold them in place.
7. Decorate your background with cotton balls to make falling snow.

Materials Required:

• Green Plates
• Various Colours of Construction Paper
• Scissors
• Hole Punch
• Fishing Line or String
• White Glue

Instructions:

1. Using the green plate, take the scissors and cut it in a corkscrew pattern, curving gently towards the center of the plate. You know that you've done it right when you can pick up the center of the plate and the rest drops away to form a spiraling tree.
2. Punch a small hole in the top of the tree. String through the fishing line or thread and tie in a knot to form the hanger.
3. Now let's decorate this Christmas tree! Cut out shapes from the various colours of construction paper. These will be your ornaments. You can decorate them as you wish or leave them plain.
4. Use the hole punch and string to create hangers for each ornament, but don't tie the string tight just yet.
5. Punch another hole into the Christmas tree wherever you want the ornament to hang from. Thread the ornament string through this hole and then tie it into a knot. When released your ornament should dangle from the tree.
6. Cut out a star for the top of the tree and glue it into place. You now have a decorated Christmas tree to hang in your house!