Posted on September 3, 2010.
Good ideas for easy and inexpensive holiday art projects? I need ideas that cost less than $ 1 a piece and I can buy enough for about 100 students.
Some ideas that I used in the past have been reindeer candycane
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/miscchr ...
and
ponybead ornaments candycane.
Other ideas would be greatly appretiated! Especially with details and directions and / or links!
THANKS !!!!!
Opt for a traditional British holiday Olde, and make Christmas "crackers". Cut a roll of toilet paper in half. Hold the two halves together while riding in tissue paper or wrapping paper light, which is cut to about three times wider than the roll is long, and long enough to wrap around the cylinder (once for wrapping paper, twice for tissue paper). Use a glue stick along the cut edge to be glued down so it does not come undone.
(OK, I've never done this way [which might explain why some of the "pirates" are hard to pop!], But reading the first link ... the party to put your thumb on the Inside the cardboard strip ... I guess the real crackers must have additional cardboard backing that extends an inch or two beyond the outer end of the roll securely glued to each half of the race to give extra support when "popping" the pirate "Obviously, they should be online, right, and applied to each half before wrapping tissue paper / continues! You may want to experiment and see if it makes it easier to open them!)
Drop some candy (wrapped mint, a piece of bubble gum, etc.), toys or trinkets tiny, etc. are found each end and tie closed. Each end must have a length that can be caught and held on comfortably. (These are held while the ends are staccato "pop" and flips open the pirate content.) Once closed, the attacker may be decorated with stickers, markers, glitter, etc. (just be sure that nothing to glue the joint that prevents the pirate popping open!)
http://baimp4u-store.stores.yahoo.net/br ... - This explanation of the British "pirate" shows what you imitate here. More examples of "pirate" http://britishhomemarket.com/market/inde ...
You can ask everyone you know to rolls of toilet paper for you. paper towel rolls and rolls of gift wrap work too, but involve much cutting!
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