It’s no secret that I absolutely love crafts that involve my children’s handprints. That’s why I’ve shared several handprint crafts like handprint reindeer, handprint turkeys and handprint spiders. So it’s no surprise that I’m going to share another handprint craft . . . the handprint angel!

What You Need to Make the Handprint Angel:

• Red, white and skin colored construction paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Googly eyes (optional)
• Markers
• Glue
• Chenille stem (a.k.a. pipe cleaner)

How to Make the Handprint Angel:

1. Trace your child’s hands onto white construction paper.

2. Cut out the traced hands.

3. Cut a large triangle from the red construction paper.

4. Glue the cut handprints to the back of the triangle to create the angel’s wings.

5. Cut a small circle from the skin colored construction paper for the angel’s head.

6. Glue the angel’s head to the top of the triangle.

7. Use markers to create the angel’s eyes or glue on googly eyes.

8. Use markers to create the angel’s mouth.

9. Cut a two inch piece of chenille stem and create a halo by wrapping it around your finger.

10. Glue the angel’s halo to the back of the angel’s head.

For more Christmas ideas, check out these other Christmas crafts.

And don’t forget to use the Norad Santa Tracker for tracking Santa Claus!

I’ve always thought the Christmas poinsettia plant was very beautiful. Before I had kids, I would always put a couple on the floor beside our fireplace. But now that I have kids, I don’t like to have poinsettias in my home because I’m worried my toddler will get into them. So instead of getting a real poinsettia plant to decorate our home for Christmas, we made one from paper. Now we have a beautiful poinsettia to decorate our home that doesn’t need to be replaced every year and won’t make a mess if my toddler manages to get into it.

What You Need to Make Your Own Poinsettia Plant:

• Red and green card stock
• Scissors
• Fastener (i.e., “brad”)
• Glue
• Thin Cardboard dowel rod
• Red or green plastic cup
• Modeling clay
• Red or green tissue paper

How to Make Your Own Poinsettia Plant:

1. Cut out five flower petals from the red card stock.

2. Cut out three leaves from the green card stock.

3. Use the brad to fasten the flower petals and leaves together, with the red petals on top.

4. Glue the flower petals and leaves to the cardboard dowel rod and let the glue dry.

5. Place modeling clay in the bottom of the plastic cup.

6. Insert the cardboard dowel with the poinsettia petals and leaves attached into the modeling clay in the plastic cup.

7. Cover the modeling clay with red or green tissue paper.

For more Christmas ideas, check out these other Christmas crafts.

And don’t forget to use the Norad Santa Tracker for tracking Santa Claus!

Our Thanksgiving Days usually go about the same way. We wake up, turn on the parade and begin preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. Around noon, our guests arrive and we eat mid-afternoon. By late afternoon, I’m full, sleepy and just want to relax on the couch. My kids, not so much. They’re always looking for activities to do and they definitely don’t agree with me that napping IS an activity! So I looked around and found these great coloring pages. That way they can do something fun that doesn’t require me to get off the couch.

Turkey Printable Coloring Pages

Turkey in a Pilgrim Hat

“Give Thanks” Turkey

Proud Turkey

Terrified Turkey

Cooked Turkey

For more fun free activities, check out these printable coloring pages, printable word puzzles and printable mazes!

For more turkey activities, check out this paper bag turkey, that paper bag turkey, turkey hats, handprint turkeys, and how to make turkey plates.

For more Thanksgiving ideas, check out these Thanksgiving crafts and Thanksgiving recipes!

If you’ve been following along at home, you know I’ve already posted about how to make a paper bag turkey. BUT! This is another way to make a paper bag turkey! You never can have too many you know. You could even start a collection of paper bag turkeys. Okay, maybe not. But this paper bag turkey was too cute not to share.

What You Need to Make THIS Paper Bag Turkey:

• Small paper bag
• Newspaper
• Scissors
• Stapler
• White paper plate (the cheap kind work best)
• Red and orange construction paper
• Googly eyes (optional)
• Markers
• Chenille stem (a.k.a. pipe cleaner)

How to Make THIS Paper Bag Turkey:

1. Crumple up a piece of newspaper and put it in the bottom of the small paper bag.

2. Twist the paper bag around the newspaper and secure it with the chenille stem to create the turkey’s neck.

3. Crumple up another piece of newspaper and put it in the remaining half of the paper bag.

4. Staple the paper bag shut so the newspaper doesn’t fall out.

5. Glue on the googly eyes or use markers to draw eyes on the head of the turkey. This is the end of the bag not stapled.

6. Cut a beak and two legs from red and/or orange construction paper and glue them to the paper bag turkey.

7. Cut the paper plate in half and discard one half.

8. Cut scalloped edges around the remaining piece of the paper plate to look like turkey feathers.

9. Use markers to color the paper plate to look like turkey feathers.

10. Staple the paper plate to the back of the paper bag so the colored feathers can be seen when looking at the front of the paper bag turkey.

For more turkey crafts, check out this turkey hat, handprint turkey, and how to make turkey plates.

For more Thanksgiving ideas, check out these Thanksgiving crafts and Thanksgiving recipes!

While Thanksgiving is definitely about the turkey, it’s also about the side dishes. And while we do like to experiment making various veggies, we always make sure to have at least one side dish our kids will love. This side dish is the super easy corn casserole. Not only do my kids love eating this corn casserole, they love making it too! And frankly with all the baking I do, I appreciate the help!

What You Need to Make this Easy Corn Casserole Recipe:

• 3 (15 ounce) cans cream-style corn
• 3 (11 ounce) cans whole niblet corn
• 3 (8.5 ounce) packages of dry corn bread mix
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups of sour cream
• 1 1/2 cups of melted butter
• 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese

How to Make this Easy Corn Casserole Recipe:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Grease 9×13 baking dish.

3. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the ingredients. (I said this was easy!)

4. Bake for 30 minutes or until lightly brown.

5. Remove from oven and sprinkle cheese on top.

6. Bake for 15 more minutes or until center is firm.

For more quick yummy ideas, check out these easy recipes!

For more Thanksgiving ideas, check out these Thanksgiving crafts and Thanksgiving recipes!

My daughters have been given various paper dolls books over the years, but after playing with the paper dolls several times they either get torn, folded or lost. So instead of buying books of paper dolls, I found free printable paper dolls! Now we can just print new paper dolls when they get worn out.

Printable Paper Dolls

Grace Kelly Paper Doll (as shown above)

Florence Nightengale Paper Doll

Vintage Paper Dolls

Six Different Female Dolls with Their Own Wardrobes

Fairy Paper Dolls

Berenstain Bears Paper Dolls

If your kids are really into dolls, check out how to make your own wooden spoon doll!

For more fun free activities, check out these printable coloring pages, printable word puzzles and printable mazes!