Here you can find three Christmas crafts that we’ve put together for the festive season!
Hot Chocolate Baubles
Equipment Needed
- Hot chocolate mix
- mini marshmallows
- funnels
- spoons
- optional chocolate chips
- fillable baubles
- optional ribbon tags stickers or acrylic pens or markers
These hot chocolate baubles are easy to make and are really great gifts too! Spread out the supplies on a table and talk the young people through the steps below to make their own hot chocolate bauble.
You can also find the instructions for this craft in our video within the module, ‘Three Crafts For Christmas – Video’ module.
Leader’s Note: For this craft you need fillable baubles. It’s fairly easy to find these online or at craft shops. Alternatively, you can buy cheap baubles and use those – just make sure you can take the tops off! We also recommend plastic baubles, rather than glass baubles.
What To Do
- Make sure that everyone has a bauble and get them to take the top off.
- They’ll then want to pop a funnel in the top of the bauble and use a spoon to scoop hot chocolate into the bauble. They should refer to the instructions on the hot chocolate for how many spoonfuls to put in (eg. Four heaped teaspoons).
- After this, get them to spoon some chocolate chips into the bauble too.
- They should then fill the remaining space with mini marshmallows.
- Once they’ve done this, get them to remove the funnel and then put the top back onto the bauble.
- You could can also get the young people to decorate their baubles with extra pieces of ribbon, by drawing on the bauble with acrylic/marker pens or by adding a tag to it!
Melted Snowman Biscuit
Equipment Needed
- Plain biscuits such as rich tea or digestives
- white icing
- bowls
- spoons
- white marshmallows
- smarties or chocolate buttons
- writing icing
- paper plates
These biscuits are simple and look really cute! The young people can either eat them straight away or you can give them bags to take them home in.
You can also find the instructions for this craft in our video within the module, ‘Three Crafts For Christmas – Video’ module.
Preparation: Make up some bowls of white icing using regular icing sugar and water. It should be fairly thick, so that it doesn’t just run off the biscuit.
What To Do
- Make sure that everyone has a paper plate to work on so that your surfaces stay clean.
- Give everyone a biscuit.
- They then need to spread some white icing on the biscuit which will be the ‘melted’ part of the snowman.
- Next, using writing icing, get them to draw a face on a white marshmallow and to then stick this marshmallow on the biscuit. This is the snowman’s head.
- Then next to the head, get them to draw two tiny arms on the ‘melted’ icing and to add two smarties or chocolate buttons to represent his buttons.
- They should now have a melted snowman biscuit!
- Allow the young people to make as many as they like and as many as your supplies allow.
Button Gift Tags
Equipment Needed
- Gift tags
- string
- glue
- coloured pens
- buttons
These tags are simple, quick and a practical, useful thing to craft!
You can also find the instructions for this craft in our video within the module, ‘Three Crafts For Christmas – Video’ module.
What To Do
- Hand out a blank gift tag to each person.
- On the tag they should stick three different buttons, about halfway to two thirds of the way down the tag.
- Then, using a coloured pen, get them to draw a line from the edge of the tag to the button, along with a little bow, to make it look like the baubles are hanging.
- If they like, they could also write ‘Merry Christmas’ on the front of the tag!
Leader’s Note: If you can’t find gift tags or just simply want to extend the craft, then the young people could cut out their own gift tags from coloured card and use a hole punch to create a hole.
Three Crafts For Christmas – Video
Equipment Needed
- something to watch a video on
We’ve got a little video below showing all three of our festive crafts found in their associated modules ‘Hot Chocolate Baubles’, ‘Melting Snowman Biscuits’, and ‘Button Gift Tag’.
What To Do
Play the video here: https://vimeo.com/488533887?fl=pl&fe=sh
