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 The focus of these pages is Beavers, the junior section of Scouts Canada. |
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Christmas Crafts 
Here's a list of the crafts that have piqued our interest. You'll need:
Fill the rose bowl with cotton balls. Using two pieces of red felt, cut a triangle shape so that the bottom of the hat will fit half of rose bowl. Stitch (or glue) two felt pieces together to make hat. Once the hat (glue) is dry, open the bottom to sit on top of the rose bowl. Decorate band of hat with cotton balls, as well as glue one cotton ball to top of the hat. Glue googly eyes to front of bowl, glue cotton balls on bowl to resemble beard, moustache, side burns and hair. Santa's nose can be cut from red felt. Eyes could also be made from white felt with black felt centres. You'll need:
With the crayons, pencils or markers, draw a Christmas or holiday scene on a piece of cardboard. Fill up the whole piece of cardboard. Encourage Beavers to let their imaginations go. Have them print an message somewhere on the picture, such as "Merry Christmas, Grandma." With scissors, carefully cut the cardboard picture into about 10-12 pieces. Make irregular shapes (like a jigsaw puzzle) — keeping in mind that the pieces should not be too small. Put all the pieces in the envelope and present as a gift. You'll need:
Glue two end to end for the body. Glue a third on its side to one side of the body for the head. Glue one at each end under the body for the legs. (It will appear as if the reindeer only has two legs.) Let dry. Using a pointed object, poke two holes in top of head. Insert two brown pipe cleaners (cut small) for antlers. Cut a piece of Christmas ribbon to make a saddle. Glue on body. Glue googly eyes on each side of the head. Glue on red pompom for the nose. Glue on a piece of red or green wool from head to body one each side, to look like reins. You'll need:
Glue one candy cane to side of pillar candle with hook part of candy cane facing down and out. Glue second cane directly apposite the first one. You'll want to have the hooked part of or the candy cane as a support base so be careful to glue on a flat surface to assure balance. Continue gluing third candy cane to candle at a right angle to the two already glued. (Similar to a compass at North, South, East, West.) Glue forth candy cane opposite to the third. Continue filling in areas with candy canes. Remember to make sure everything is well balance when doing this. Once gluing candy canes is complete, tie a ribbon or raffia around bottom of the canes and it's complete. Note: Keep plastic on candy canes. Canes should not be sticking above candle when complete so make sure the candle is tall enough. Never leave candles unattended when burning. You'll need:
Paint any kind of design on the pots, then put plants in them. For example, Christmas Cactus or Christmas. OR — use smaller sized pots and paint your design on the pot turned upside-down. Place a tapered candlestick in the hole on the bottom of the pot. You could also use a little raffia or something around the bottom of the candlestick to hide the hole. You'll need:
Grate crayon pieces; snip and punch holes from the construction paper into little confetti bits; mix together. Sprinkle this mixture over one half of the 6x12 piece of wax paper, fold the other half over. Iron lightly to get it all to melt and stick together. Cut post board frames, two each, of whatever shape you want. For example, square, diamond, circle. Just make sure the 6x6 square (6x12 folded in half), will cover it all. Sandwich the "stained glass" into the post board frame. Staple the frame in a few places to hold it secure. Punch hole or two at the top for the string or yarn. You'll need:
Using old Christmas cards, cut out two star shapes, about equal in size and 4 inches or so across. Position and glue one star on top of the other so the points of the one star are between the points of the bottom star. You will have a 10-point star. Squeeze the gold-coloured fabric paint to outline the star points. Attach a string and hang. You'll need:
Glue cutouts from old Christmas cards on 2 inch circles of cardboard. Decorate with whatever is on hand — ribbon, glitter, beads, etc. Attach safety pin to the back and you now have a Christmas corsage or ornament. You'll need:
Collect the cardboard juice cans — the ones whose lids come off with the strip of white plastic. Keep the lids. Cut the cans down until they are about 1 1/2 inches high. Make a very clean cut, because you are then going to glue the lid back onto the shortened juice can. Cover the can with ribbon (1 7/16 inch width ribbon — the Christmas coloured ones are the best) and glue. The ribbon is to fit inside the lids. If desired, you can paint the bottom and the lid in gold colour. Talk gold wire (or rick rack, or small cording), and glue onto the side of the can, on top of the ribbon, in a zigzag pattern. Make sure your zigzags are evenly spaced and reach from one lid to the other. Glue two small wooden beads onto the ends of two round tooth picks and glue these "drumsticks" onto the top of the drum. Attach thread for hanging. You'll need:
Glue three (short) cinnamon sticks into a stack (so they look like a stack of logs.) Tie a ribbon around the stack and tie a bow on top. Add Christmasy berries, leaves, or whatever you wish. Attach a thread for hanging, or use for Christmas package (present) decorations. You may even want to add little jingle bells to the bow. You'll need pasta in various shapes:
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Glue together the various pieces into an angel shape. Paint if desired (most often white). Embellish with tinsel chenille sticks for the halo. Paint a face on and add wool hair if desired. Have fun. If you want to colour the pasta, mix food colour and rubbing alcohol in equal parts (for example, 3 tablespoons of food colouring with 3 tablespoons of alcohol), and place in a plastic ziploc bag. Put pasta in and shake. Place pasta on a non-stick cookie sheet and bake at low temperature until dry enough to work with.
Last updated: November 12, 2000
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