Reindeer Candy Canes

This is an easy project for the younger members and was run by multiple families over the years

Reindeer Candy Canes

Milk Carton Ice Candles - Taskers

Milk Carton Ice Candles - Taskers

This one was probably around since the beginning of the Holiday Workshop. Peter and Toni Tasker ran this one for many years

And a link to making Ice Candles

Origami Boxes out of recycled wrapping paper or Christmas Cards

This one was run by Tom Rich

Materials:
*Recycled wrapping paper or Christmas cards
*Origami directions for making a box and lid

This one is simple. Follow the Origami instructions for making a box and lid. You can encourage kids to use this to wrap one of the gifts they are giving a family member.

Recycled Christmas cards for Others

From my research this activity was one of the original ones from the early 1980's. Ann Collins was at this activity table for most of the Holiday Workshops, and our Minister Helen Cohen also helped run this one during her 22 years of service as our Minister.

Materials:
Recycled Christmas cards
Glue
Sizzors
Construction paper

This is a simple activity. Encourage participants to make a Christmas or Holiday card for themselves and to also make one for someone else. Cut out images and reapply them to your card. In some years we addressed these to shut-ins and the Minister or Lay Ministers would deliver those ones to them.

It is wonderful to see artists of all ages intensely creating their project and recycling cards from past years

Colored Salt Bottles - Dori Reuss

Colored Salt Bottles - this project was one of the original ones. Dori Reuss ran this one again when she got reinvolved in the Holiday Workshop.

Materials:
• Multiple various shaped small bottles, e.g. baby food, spice, miniature jelly
• Sidewalk chalk, big pieces
• Salt, 12 cylinder containers
• 6 Paper plates
• 6 Plastic spoons
• Short thin dowels or tooth picks
• Aluminum foil
• Curling ribbon

1. Fill 6 plates with a cup of salt
2. Color the salt by rubbing the sidewalk chalk in the salt. You can do this with the rainbow colored chalk
3. Spoon in layers into small bottles with plastic spoon
4. Optional – tip bottle as you work
5. Optional – use dowel several times around the edges to make “icicles” around the outside
6. Make sure to fill to the very top so the sand does not move once finished. You can also tap occasionally to help the sand settle
7. When done, cut a circle of aluminum foil an inch wide than the top. Fold in the edges of the foil into the rim of the lid.
8. Firmly screw on the lid
9. Cut 12 “ curling ribbon and tie this around the neck of the bottle
10. Encourage the children to continue to make the colored salt for the next participants to use

Christmas Bell with flower clay pot

This project started being run by Maureen Bovet in the last 1980's. She got the idea from a friend who gave her one. Maureen loves flowers and landscaping so this project was perfect for her to run. Her quote is: "Pretty simple but with a gardenesque theme which is why I liked it."

Materials:
*Small clay pots, the smallest you can find 1 to 2 inches
*Pipe cleaners, the sparkly the better
*Bells - small with a part on top to put pipe cleaner through

Assembly:
1. Put the pipe cleaner through the top of the bell and put it in the middle of the pipe cleaner
2. Fold the two ends of the pipe cleaner together and twist a few times so the bell will ring easier
3. Then thread those two ends of the pipe cleaners through the bottom hole of the clay pot, from the inside of the pot
4. Twist the pipe cleaners to create a loop for hanging. The pot hangs upside down as a bell
5. The pot can be decorated with stickers

Clothespin Reindeer

Clothespin Reindeer

Contributed and run for many years by the Morse-Fortier family

MATERIALS:
*3 flat sliding kind of clothes pins
*6 inch long piece of thread (red or green)
*One end of a Q-tip
*Tiny Christmas bell
*2 tiny eyes
*1 small red push pin
*Elmer's glue

ASSEMBLY:
1) Cut 4" of thread, make a loop and glue it between two clothes pins
2) Cut 2" of thread, run it through the bell and blue it between the pair of clothespins and the third one, which goes upside down
3) Add the eyes, the red push pin nose, and glue on the Q-tip tail