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Homemade activities are fun when on a Christmas holiday. You can indulge in making some interesting homemade Christmas crafts along with your friends and family. This can form as a part of your preparation for the Christmas celebrations.

Christmas decorations require a lot of items. It often becomes difficult to get so many tiny items from the shops. At times it is also an expensive affair.But if these amazing Christmas decor items are made at home, they come cheap and can be made in plenty.

Excellent Homemade Christmas Crafts

There are several things which can be produced right at home. All you need to arrange for are things like a pair of scissors, glue, and several colored felts and so on. Some of the simple homemade Christmas crafts include:

1. Frilly Christmas tree: To make this beautiful Christmas tree is not a very tough job. All you need is a wooden round base with a straight and hard wire. You will then need some green satin thin ribbons and cut it in different sizes. Then paste it one by one alternatively. Let the bigger ones be at the bottom of the wire and the tiniest ones at the top making it look as a cone. Your tree is done but now you need to decorate it.
2. Mini Santa Claus: Well, you do not need to think hard to make a cute little Santa Claus. All you need is some Ice cream bar sticks and red, white and black colored felts, glue and ribbons. You can carve the hat or Santa’s cap with the red felt with a while round tip. You can further cover the lower portion with red felt and make designs by pasting some black felt. Then make the eyes, nose and lips with a black sketch. Your little Santa is ready.
3. Bead Wreath: This is a simple ornament which can be easily created with the help of white and golden colored beads. These beads can be weaved in a small wire alternatively and ties with the golden wire at the top. You can also use other color beads to make the wreath ornament as per your imagination.
4. Puzzle Wreath: To make this simple yet beautiful wreath, you would need some puzzles pieces which can be colored in green color. Then collect colorful buttons, a thin white ribbon, green glitter glue and hot glue. Weave the green colored puzzle pieces into a thin wire and tie it at the top with the thin white ribbon. Paste the different colored buttons on the wreath made of puzzle pieces.

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Christmas is an occasion to celebrate “love and light” as the Christians would say. To them it’s a celebration of their “Lord God Jesus Christ. Colorful gifts and X-Mas crafts gain a lot of popularity here.

There are some innovative and creative Christian Christmas crafts that are characterized by the festival. If you haven’t tried them yet, you can try making one or two. They would certainly add a difference to your house interiors and Christmas decorations.

Let us have a look some of the famous Christian Christmas craft ideas.

Best Christian Christmas Craft Ideas

A Baby Jesus

If you want to make this, then all you will require is a brown paper lunch bag, yellow paper, a piece of small fabric and a picture of baby Jesus. You can then cut the top of the paper bag. Do it in such a way that about an inch is left behind in the bottom. This is will go in for the manger.

Post this you can cut the yellow construction paper. Make thin strips out of it. You can treat them as straw and put or at the base of the manger .You can then cut out the picture of baby Jesus and put it on the straw. After this, you can cut out the fabric, so that it resembles likes a small blanket. Place it on the bay.

Little Christmas Angel

Our kids associate this time of the year with magic, Santa Claus, magic elves and cherubs. Therefore helping them to make a little Christmas angel will certainly be a good idea.

The ingredients that you would need to make it are a paper doily, yellow pipe cleaner, a foil piece, clothespin, a photo of your child’s head and a glue stick.

You can start by folding the doily into half, so that look similar to that of an angel’s dress. You can then glue to the clothespin. Take the picture of your child’s head and paste it at the top of the dress. You can now create a small halo out of the pipe cleaner and paste it to the back of the head. Do it in such a way that it forms a circle around the head. Make wings out of the foil and have it attached.

A Stained Glass Candle holder

This is yet another beautiful Christian crafts that you can make on the Christian Eve. Once you finish creating this, you will see it holds similarity with the church stained glasses. Take an old clean baby food jar for the same. Apart from this you will modge podge glue, colored tissue papers, tea light candle, and a foam paint brush.

As you begin making it, make sure that the food jar is cleaned with all labels removed. Paste the tissue paper on the jar. Do it such a manner that the colors are overlapped. When it is fully covered you can apply a layer of Modge Podge and let it dry. You can put the tea light candle inside to have a warm glow. If you want you can also use glitters on the jar as you use the glue.

Similarly other sweet Christian Christmas craft ideas may include making of praying hands, candles, Santa Claus, and the like.

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Christmas means family time. Kids come running home on their last day of schools only to find Christmas waiting right at their door knocking lovingly. To engage kids with some interesting and artistic job, you need to check out some of the amazing Christmas crafts which can be easily created during these holidays.

Kids need not worry much though as these Christmas crafts are such an interesting activity, that adults too are tempted to participate in it.

Interesting Christmas Crafts:

Making Christmas crafts is no rocket science. These are easy and can be made with the use of household stuffs. All you need are the common stuff such as, a pair of scissors, piece of cloth, colored papers, glue, and tapes and so on. You can check out some of the amazing things which can be created as Christmas crafts as follows:

• • Snowman and Jingle Bell combo: To make this pretty jingle bell snowman, you will require 3 large jingle bells, craft wire, toothpick, 2 small red pompoms, silver ribbon, green sequins, white craft glue, acrylic paints and so on. Using all these, tiny little snowman’s ready.

 

• • Stuffed Santa: To make a stuffed little cute Santa, all you need is red, white, flesh colored and pink colored felt. You also need 2 small black pompoms and one pink pompom and a medium sized white pompom with glitters, cotton batting, hot glue and a 6 piece red ribbon. With all these and a little precision, your little Santa is ready.

 

• • Baby Jesus: You can certainly create a baby Jesus with the help of woolen doll body, polystyrene, brown tan felt and a handful of raffia. You can make a baby Jesus that seems to be wrapped in a brown piece of cloth.

 

• • Penguin Ornament: You can make such wonderful and cute penguins with the help of wood circle, acrylic paint, 8 piece yarn, and toothpick and so on. These little penguins look beautiful when decorated on trees and so on.

 

• • Layered Christmas tree: You can make a lovely Christmas tree with the help of certain stuff which include gold colored felt, brown acrylic paint, glue, 8 piece of yarn, jumbo craft stick etc. This looks beautiful when decorated with some other interesting Christmas crafts.

 

• Reindeer: Christmas crafts also include making a reindeer. You can make one very easily with the help of a small brown triangular pot, brown felts for horns, white and black felts, pink felt, and glue and so on. It is one of the interesting Christmas crafts which can be created out of the stuff present mostly at home.

Easy Christmas Craft Ideas

Some of the interesting Christmas crafts ideas that you can try out this season are:-

A Manger Scene

You can try making a manger with the help of a wooden box, which can go in as the manger. This in turn can be filled with straw and dried grass. Get some dolls and dress them up as various characters. You can place wherever you wish to around the manger scene.

Christmas Bobbles

To make the best Christmas bobbles, you can purchase the Styrofoam balls from the market and paint them. Choose any particular color that you would want to. Apart from the colors of your choice you can use glue and glitter. Use glue to paste the glitter dust on the balls. If you want you can also use small strips of ribbons and other decorative elements that you feel like. The Styrofoam balls are easily available in the market and are reasonably priced.

Christmas Candles

Candles are an essential part of almost any celebration and festivities. You can make your own candles this Christmas. Homemade candles are easy to make with some simple easy steps. You can use even various fragrances to make scented candles. Use various colors and shapes as per your choice. If you want you can add glitters and make some personalized designs on the candles. These candles can be given as Christmas gifts to friends and family or you can light them beside the Christmas trees.

Christmas ribbons and festoons

These are the Christmas wreaths that can be hanged from one end of the room to the other for decoration. Other decorative items like bells, stars and the like are then attached to it. Some of them are used around the Christmas trees. There are various styles in which these wreaths can be made. Some of them can be made using tinsel, plastic fruit motifs, wire framing, colored crepe ribbons and even bobbles.

Christmas Cookies

Cookies are the attractive element of any Christmas celebrations. You can make some artificial cookies and cakes as decorative pieces to add to the Christmas tree. You can use soft paper board, colored papers, ribbons, glitters to make them. You can also make cookie boxes of some of the eminent brands and keep it beside the Christmas tree!

Apart from these other best Christmas craft ideas are:-

1. Wall hangings
2. Decorative Mistletoes
3. Chimes
4. Christmas Flags and banners for home.

These and several others can form a part of your ideas for Christmas crafts. These are the best ways to engage not just kids but the entire family and have a great time creating these things as a part of your Christmas preparation.

Use of Christmas Crafts:

These simple yet wonderful crafts for Christmas can be used in many ways:

• You can decorate these on a Christmas tree
• You can decorate these on the walls as a part of your Christmas decor
• These can be used as simple gifts for neighbouring children as well as tokens for adults
• These can be used to create the birth of Jesus scene in your garden area.

Christmas crafts are an amazing thing to do on a Christmas. Making some of these easy crafts help you transcend into the Christmas mood. Make your Christmas a little more fun by participating in making these lovely Christmas crafts along with your family members.

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You can possibly never plan for a Christmas celebration without Christmas carols. Remember the Lord and celebrate the joy of Christmas by chanting Christmas hymns and singing out the famous Christmas carols.

It is celebration time and one should try to fill in all the elements of Christmas celebrations to hold back the memories in the heart. A celebration would be absolutely incomplete without the melodious tunes of the very own Christmas Carols. Christmas carols can be played at home, one can listen to it alone or it can also be played in the church. The impact that these Christmas carols leave with us is that one ends up humming the simple, yet sensational tunes of Christmas Carols.

Christmas Carols are also known as Noel. These are songs and hymns that contain lyrics connected with the Nativity theme or spirit of the winter season. Christmas carols are usually sung at a time during the Christmas Eve and also during Christmas. The lyrics and tunes of the Christmas carols have always been simple but have made their mark across the globe. During Christmas, it is quite normal for someone to hum those mesmerizing tunes of Christmas carols and sway in the mood. Generally Christmas Carols boasts of a traditional background which are being followed generation after generation. The initiation of the Christmas carols date back to the 13th century.

Christmas Carols originated with that of Communal songs which were linked with the harvest celebrations and Christmas at the same time. Christmas carols were accepted by churches at a much later stage. Nowadays, it’s a common practice to sing Christmas carols in churches just before Christmas and also during Christmas. Carols have also become an integral part of celebrations other than Christmas.

There is a Church Choir who actually participates in singing Christmas Carols – they are followed with playing musical instruments. There are background vocals to create that extra harmony and one can also hum with them. Start your Christmas celebration with the carols for a perfect celebration.

Popular Christmas Carols

 

Sing the Christmas carols in unison, invoke the divine blessings of the Lord on the Christmas Day, and celebrate the season.

Let us have a look at the carols:
1.Silent Night

“Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth”
2.Joy to the World

“Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
while fields and floods,
rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessing flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of His righteousness,
and wonders of His love,
and wonders of His love,
and wonders, wonders of His love.”
3.I Saw Three Ships

“I saw three ships come sailing by
on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.
I saw three ships come sailing by
on Christmas Day in the morning.

And what was in those ships all three
on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three
on Christmas Day in the morning?

The Virgin Mary and Christ were there
on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.
The virgin Mary and Christ were there
on Christmas Day in the morning.”
4.Away in a Manger

“Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.
The stars in the bright sky looked down where he lay,
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,
But little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.
I love thee, Lord Jesus! Look down from the sky,
And stay by my side until morning is nigh.

Be near me Lord Jesus,
I ask thee to stay.
Close by me forever,
And love my I pray.

Bless all the dear children,
In thy tender care.
And take them to heaven,
To be with thee there.”
5.We three kings of Orient

“We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
O star of wonder, star of night,

Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.

Born a king on Bethlehem’s plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign. Chorus

Frankincense to offer have I.
Incense owns a Deity nigh.
Prayer and praising all men raising,
Worship Him, God on high. Chorus

Myrrh is mine: Its bitter perfume
Breaths a life of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb. Chorus

Glorious now behold Him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through the earth and skies. Chorus”
6.Come All Ye Faithful

“O Come All Ye Faithful
Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

O Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing all that hear in heaven God’s holy word.
Give to our Father glory in the Highest;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.

All Hail! Lord, we greet Thee,
Born this happy morning,
O Jesus! for evermore be Thy name adored.
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.”
7.little town of Bethlehem

“O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

For Christ is born of Mary
And gathered all above
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love
O morning stars together
Proclaim the holy birth
And praises sing to God the King
And Peace to men on earth

How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may his His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still,
The dear Christ enters in.

O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born to us today
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell
O come to us, abide with us
Our Lord Emmanuel”
8.Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

“Hark! The herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King,
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled.
Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With the angelic host proclaim
“Christ is born in Bethlehem”.
Hark! The herald angels sing
Glory to the new born King.
Christ, by highest Heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
Late in time behold him come,
Offspring of a Virgin’s womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail, the incarnate Deity!
Pleased as Man with man to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Hark! The herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King.
Hail, the Heaven-born Prince of peace!
Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Risen with healing in His wings.
Now He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Glory to the new-born King.”
9.Angels We Have Heard on High

“Angels we have heard on high,
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply,
Echoing their joyous strains.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Shepherds, why this Jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be,
Which inspire your heav’nly song?
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
See Him in a manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise.
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.”
10.Good King Wenceslas

“Good King Wenceslas looked out,
On the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gath’ring winter fuel.
“Hither, page, and stand by me,
If thou know’st it, telling,
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?”
“Sire, he lives a good league hence,
Underneath the mountain;
Right against the forest fence,
By Saint Agnes’ fountain.”
“Bring me flesh, and bring me wine,
Bring me pine logs hither:
Thou and I will see him dine,
When we bear them thither.”
Page and monarch, forth they went,
Forth they went together;
Through the rude wind’s wild lament
And the bitter weather.
“Sire, the night is darker now,
And the wind blows stronger;
Fails my heart, I know not how,
I can go no longer.”
“Mark my footsteps, good my page;
Tread thou in them boldly:
Thou shalt find the winter’s rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly.”
In his master’s steps he trod,
Where the snow lay dinted;
Heat was in the very sod
Which the saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor,
Shall yourselves find blessing.”

Rare Christmas Carols

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2. I Saw Three Ships
3. A Cradle in Bethlehem

 

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