Unwrap the perfect Christmas, with money saving tips and inspired ideas for food and fun. You can make our stained glass biscuits to eat, or our salt dough decorations to brighten up your tree. Plus, Christmas giving takes on a whole new meaning when your gifts are presented in beautiful boxes crafted from old greetings cards.
These ideas and many more are waiting for you.
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Tea light holders
Candles create a special atmosphere at Christmas. Their soft twinkling light can warm a room and make us all feel good. These tea lights, or votive candle holders, are made from used yogurt jars and cost next to nothing. They’re incredibly easy and great fun to make.
» A step-by-step guide to creating lovely tea light holders
Christmas stockings
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a stocking hanging by the fire or at the foot of the bed. Our Christmas stockings can be made from any old scraps of material or felt and we’ve got a stocking template for you to download.
» Making Christmas stockings – a great activity for children
Salt dough Christmas tree decorations
Salt dough decorations are extremely easy and fun to make. They can be decorated to any theme and will look really dazzling on any tree. And they’re a great activity for the family, particularly on cold grey days before Christmas.
» Make our salt dough decorations
Home made Christmas puddings
Start making your Christmas puddings and get them maturing in time for Christmas Day. Plus the word on the wind is that there’s going to be a store bought pudding shortage this year. Get your kids involved and revive that ancient custom of stiring the good luck into the pudding.
» Start making those Christmas puddings!
Christmas gift boxes and star decorations
Beautiful gift boxes you can use as tree decorations or as part of your table setting, plus a wonderful little 3-dimensional star. And the really great thing is they’re all made from used Christmas cards. Ho ho ho! We’ve got the template for you to download.
» Make our giftboxes and star decorations
Stained glass biscuits
Clever little biscuits that catch the light thanks to a ’secet ingredient’ that gives them their beautiful stained glass centres. Use them as delicious Christmas decorations, or, better yet – eat them.
