Feed Santa Bean Bag Toss

I was in charge of games at our family Christmas Party so I made a Santa bean bag toss.  I covered a box with wrapping paper and found a picture of Santa's face on the internet.  Then I blew it up and traced it onto card stock which I glued onto the box.  I cut the mouth open really big to make the hole for the bean bags.  For the bean bags I used tan felt to make circle bean bags and filled them with beans.  Then I used some fabric glue and glued on some random pieces of dark brown felt to make the chocolate chips. 

Ribbon/Flower Holder

I got tired of all my daughters hair bows and flowers being in a pile in a drawer so I found this idea on Pinterest.  I went to DI and got an old frame. (Believe me, I was doing the world a service by removing the picture that was in there.)  I stapled some ribbon in rows down the side and on the top to hang it from.  Now I can see them all and none of them are getting crushed.

Reindeer Noses

This was my neighbor gift this year.  They are chocolate malt balls and one red mint.

Alphabet Crayons

I found some silicon alphabet molds and melted down some old crayons.

Computer Armoire bulletin board

I got a computer armoire but my sticky notes kept falling off so I bought a cheap bulletin board from Walmart, cut it to fit, covered it with some fabric and mounted it to the door with some mounting tape.

Gold, frankincense and myrrh ornament

I started with an empty glass ornament.  I printed the scripture in a circle just big enough to fill the ornament with a small tab at the top so it wouldn't slide around. I taped two back to back so you can look at it from either side.  I added a small amount of frankincense and myrrh purchased off of Ebay with some gold sand I found in the floral section at Walmart.

Brown Paper Packages tied up with String

I didn't do this one, my sister did but I loved it so much I had to share.

Old Book Christmas Ornaments

I got an old book from DI -a copy of Moby Dick that was already ruined because it was abridged : ), cut the pages with out pictures in strips and curled them with a pair of scissors.  Then I stuffed it in a clear glass ornament from Michael's.

Ice Cream Sensory Bin

Take one under the bed storage bin, add dollar store ice cream bowls, cups and scoops as well as pastel colored pom poms and you have one very happy little girl.  You can use this for math skills as well.  We sorted the pom poms by size and color.  You can count how many pom poms fit in each scoop and bowl also.

Build Your Own Monster

I took some felt cut them in different body shapes, legs, eyes, mouths, feet, etc. and let my daughter mix and match to make her own monsters.