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Fast, Fun, and Easy Christmas Decorations

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By Sherri Osborn, About.com

The Bottom Line
With this book you can create a variety of fun and unique Christmas decorations and Christmas tree ornaments using scrap fabric, heavy interfacing, and a few other basic supplies. You can then decorate your creations usinhg beads, ribbon, glitter, and anything else you like. While an adults help will be needed to assemble most of these projects, kids will have a ton of fun embellishing them!
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Pros
  • They really are fast, fun, and easy!
  • Great decorations you can give as gifts.
  • Unlimited, creative possibilities.
Cons
  • None
Description
  • Softcover book with 64 jam-packed pages.
  • Easy to understand directions and inspiring colored photos.
  • Directions to help you make many kinds of ornaments, wreaths, and more decorations.
Guide Review - Fast, Fun, and Easy Christmas Decorations
The projects offered in this book not only make fun decorations for your own home and Christmas tree, but they would also make great gifts you can personalize for everyone on your list. You can create ornaments for Christmas trees, wreaths to hang on doors, advent calendars to help count down the days to Christmas, gingerbread houses that look good enough to eat, and more.

All of the projects are made by sandwiching heavy interfacing between two pieces of fabric. Some of these projects require a little sewing so adult supervision or help may be needed to construct the pieces, but kids of all ages can certainly participate in decorating the projects. Personalized ornaments and decorations can be made using fabric paint, jingle bells, ribbon, beads, and just about any other embellishing products you have tucked away in your craft cupboard.

My favorite projects in this book are the gift boxes. You can make several colorful boxes that not only make wonderful gifts themselves, but also serves as a unique way to wrap a small gift. I am hoping to make some of these for Christmas and tuck them into the tree for all to admire instead of placing them beneath the tree!

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