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Kwanzaa Decoupaged Kinara

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Materials
Pine (2″ x 1 5″ x 4″)
Decorative paper or fabric (1 5″ square)
Decoupage medium
Coordinating acrylic paint

General Supplies & Tools
Pencil
Scroll saw
Drill and W bit
Craft scissors
Paintbrushes
Brayer or large dowel
Craft knife

Instructions
1 . Enlarge Kinara pattern to desired size and copy onto pine. Using scroll saw, cut out wood. Center and drill seven W deep holes in top of holder.
2.  Cut paper or fabric slightly larger than side of candle holder. Brush liberal coat of decoupage medium onto one side of candle holder, then gently apply paper. Roll with large dowel to smooth and remove any air bubbles. Brush decoupage medium over top of paper and let dry. Using craft knife, trim excess paper from edges. Repeat process for other side, ends, and top of candle holder.
3.  Paint grooves and bottom of candle holder with coordinating acrylic paint.

How To Play “Jacks”

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WHAT YOU NEED
• A small, bouncy rubber ball
•  10 jacks
• A hard, smooth, level playing surface (floor, sidewalk, patio, or blacktop)

HOW TO PLAY
Sit on the ground and toss the jacks gently onto the playing surface.

Using one hand, gently toss the ball into the air, let­ting it bounce on the playing surface. With the same hand, pick up one jack and catch the ball before it bounces again.

Repeat until you have picked up all ten jacks. This round is called “onesies.”

Toss the ten jacks on the playing surface again.

Toss the ball into the air, letting it bounce once on the playing surface, and pick up two jacks at the same time. Repeat until you have picked up all ten jacks, two at a time. This round is called “twosies.”

Increase the number of jacks you pick up during each round until you pick up all ten jacks at once and catch the ball.

If you fail to pick up the correct number of jacks, fail to catch the ball, or drop the jacks from your hand, your turn is over and the next player goes.

When you get another turn, con­tinue where you left off. If you went out during “threesies,” toss the ten jacks, and start with “threesies.”

To make the game more chal­lenging, forbid players from touching jacks other than the ones being picked up and require players to place the jacks in their free hand before catch­ing the ball.

The first player to complete “onesies” through “tensies” wins the game.

For a variation on the game, require all play­ers to go from “onesies” to “tensies” and then back down to “onesies” again.

Ice Cream Cone Christmas trees

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What better way to keep kids feeling jolly than to encourage them to play with their food — which is the whole point of our Snack-tivity Station. To help your guests create these festive Ice-cream-cone Trees, stock the station with paper plates, sugar cones, sugar cookies (your own or store-bought), store-bought icing (one batch of white, one batch tinted with green food coloring), shredded coconut, sprinkles, lollipops, and a selection of bite-size candies. To make a tree, spread a cone with green icing; spoon a dollop of white icing onto a sugar cookie, then gently push the cone into the icing. Top the icing with shredded coconut snow. Decorate the tree with sprinkles and candy ornaments, and crown with a lollipop star (nibble a hole in the cone for the stem). Provide flat-bottomed brown bags so kids can take home their trees (or tree pieces!).

Christmas Trees on Mirror

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Materials:

Felt Squares – Orchid, Yellow,
Blue, Pink, Neon Green
Pom poms – 10mm Bright
Big Bag Buttons – Carnival
Dance Self-Stick Gems
Colored Dowels
10″ Mirror
12″ Floral Craft Ring-Wood
Poly-fir
Craft Designer Cup Sequins
Felt Snowflakes
Star Buttons
Glitter Glue – Opal
Floss – Assorted Colors
Needle – Large Eye
Lara’s Crafts1 1/2″ Wood Flower Pot (3)
Scissors
Paintbrush
Craft Glue
Low Heat Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Flower Pots

Instructions

Step 1 Using printed patterns from the website, cut your trees from desired colors of felt (2 for each tree).
Step 2 Use desired colors of floss and stitch lines on trees.
Step 3 Cut assorted circles of felt and stitch to tree with buttons as toppers.
Step 4 Cut ‘A” of felt for line garland as shown on pink tree, stitch with pink floss as shown.
Step 5 Add sequins and buttons to embellish as desired.
Step 6 Stitch trees together using floss, place dowel in between felt and lightly stuff with Poly-fir.
Step 7 Turn flower pots upside down and insert dowel into hole and glue to mirror.
Step 8 Glue mirror to wood ring.
Step 9 Cover pots with pom poms adding colored ones as desired.
Step 10 Cut shirt pieces from felt, stitch together and glue to outside edge of mirror.
Step 11 Embellish skirt with felt snowflakes.