Lots A Christmas

Christmas is all about making memories, and what better way to make memories with your kids than to tackle some DIY Christmas ornaments that the kids can help with? There are tons of ideas out there, all with varying degrees of difficulty, on how to make your own Christmas ornaments that the kids will love having a hand in helping to make. Check these out and see if they are something your kids would love to help with making:

Ball Ornaments With Washi-Tape

Have your kid mask the surface of a distinct shatterproof decoration with one color  of washi tape. Then wrap a few stripes of contrasting colors on top; the relatively see-through tape generated a chilly set aside when layered. Composed the tape down,   but do not get too intricate trying to get it to lie perfectly horizontal (the rounded surface makes it impossible). The key with this activity, be sure to get shatterproof bulb ornaments to start to avoid any accidents!

Elf Friends

1. Wrap a wine cork in felt, and procure with glue. Then glue a 1-in. wooden bead on top.
2. Tie a 1/2-x-3-in. strip of felt where the bead meets the cork.
3. Roll and glue a 2 1/2 -x-1-in. triangle of felt into a cone; glue to the top of the bead.
4. Cut little slits on the sides of the body felt and click two 1 1/2-in. pieces of formulate cable into the cork. Spin little beads more than cable ends and twist them to make hands.
5. Insert two 3-in. pieces of cable into the cork base and spin barrel beads more than ends and twist for feet.
6. Design on facial options with paint markers.

 This is a great idea to use if you have some wine corks laying around!

Friendly Peg Ornaments

This is super simple and helps kids to really use their imagination to make Christmas ornaments that parents will always want to keep!

Paint, felt, and pipe cleaners are all you have got to convert wooden pegs into a

complete cast of Arctic persona for your tree. From Rudolph, a Puffin, Molly the Ox and more, these will make for worthy gifts too! So accumulate your materials, and display the children these guys to aid them to dream up their own oddball ornaments   (our narwhal was inspired by the film Elf).

With this type of Christmas ornaments, just let your kids imagination run wild. The more wild they get, the better this will look.

DIY Christmas ornaments are something that make great memories, and they can allow you to have a tree that looks amazing. The end result is a theme that is truly unique as you have ornaments on these trees that are handmade…thus no matter if everyone follows the same recipe for making these Christmas ornaments, there are always going to be slight differences that make these unique.

For those parents with kids this year, what DIY Christmas ornament are you going to attempt to make this year with your kids?

When it arrives to take down your slim artificial Christmas tree, it feels like all the joy is out of the home. Still, taking your tree down depends on you, as there is no specific day to do it. Many people take their tree down on the 6^th of January while other families take it down earlier. 

Traditional Dates For Taking The Christmas Tree Down

The date to remove your tree differs from one person to another. First, you have the twelfth night on the 5^th of January, a popular time to take down your Christmas tree. Some people even leave it until the 6^th of January.

According to many people, the 12^th night is the natural end of the festive season. The reason is that the Epiphany, the liturgical season starts on the 6^th of January. Hence, the church begins focusing on the appearance of the Magi.

As mentioned, the day of Epiphany is also a great day to take down your Christmas tree. The reason is that some people count the 12^th day ending Christmas as the 25^th of December while others do it from Boxing Day.

It all comes down to a matter of taste as Epiphany is an ancient Eastern Church feast day as it was about Christ’s birth as much as the Magi. Furthermore, it is a feast of the winter season. In the fourth century, the Romans inherited the day, shifting their focus on Bethlehem and the arrival of the Magi.

It all happened when Julius I named the 25^th of December Christmas Day. Hence, many pagan festivals united with Christian ones, and Epiphany in the western tradition remained. So, it became the feast of the Three Kings people celebrated.

Years passed, and it had different names, Three Kings Day, Theophany, and Little Christmas. Thus, it is still not an answer when Epiphany is celebrated. The reason is that the Eastern church did not switch to the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, their Christmas day is on the 6^th of January.

While the Orthodox celebrate Christmas Day on the 19^th of January.

The Catholics Take The Tree Down on Candlemas

Many people feel leaving the tree with decorations after the 6^th of January is bad luck. However, neither should the tree be taken down before Candlemass, known as The Presentation of Christ. The festival celebrates Jesus and Mary at the temple forty days after Jesus’ birth.

Still, in Medieval times the church provided congregants with new candles for the dark nights ahead and for getting blessed. As it was a magical time mixing religion with magic. Church goers believe it is back luck to remove the tree before Candlemass or keep it up later than the 6^th of January.

The First Day of New Year

Lastly, you have people that remove their trees on the 31^st of December as the New Year starts. They believed that you would take the old years’ troubles with you into the New Year, leaving your tree up. Still, no matter when you decide to take your slim artificial Christmas tree down, it is all superstition and depends on you. Some people leave the tree up year-round to decorate for different holidays.