The three kings are easy to make from cork. They are suitable as nativity figures or as game figures for a king from a fairy tale, as carnival theme or for a table theatre. Your creativity is not limited. Make these little kings and princes from cork, crown corks and fabric or felt remnants. Be creative. You can find a guide for the kings here!
Three Kings Make – Crafting with Corks
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Crafting King with Cork – Crafting Princess of Cork
These princesses or kings are made of cork and crown cork and embellished with wool.
Makes the cork kings and cork princesses to play for a puppet theatre or role playing. They are also suitable for a Christmas crib as figures. Have fun crafting with cork!
Snow crystals of aluminium lids (upcycles)
These snow crystals sparkle and shimmer. They are made from round aluminium lids of dairy products. Cleaned and smooth painted you can use these for these enchanting snow crystals.
For this purpose, the aluminium cover is folded four times in half. Then you paint the cut line with a pencil. Make sure that the closed edge remains.
With the scissors you start to cut the open side with the one. Then you carefully fold the crystal apart again. Finally, you brush the finished snow crystals smoothly painted and hang them on the window, on a picture or on a branch.
Enjoy the idea of using packaging waste for handicrafts and making something beautiful out of it!
Snowman tinkering (made from aluminium cover)
The snow glitters beautifully in the sunlight and also this little snowman. It is made of aluminium lids and thus a beautiful upcycling idea. All you need in addition is some clay paper and cotton wool. Go ahead and have a lot of fun!
Lavender – Make your own soap
You can make soap yourself. All you need for this is raw soap, soap paint, lavender scent and beeswax. First, the raw soap is cut small and melted together with the beeswax. Then add the soap paint and the lavender scent. Poured into silicone moulds, the soap is fixed in a short time. This creates beautiful gifts in no time. Have fun!
Gift bag for Santa Claus or Christmas
You need a gift bag for Santa or Christmas? Then look at these beautiful bags. You don't need many materials for this and it doesn't take long to make the Santa or Christmas bags. Look for yourself! Have fun!
Sweet fir tree bread (several ideas)
These breads can easily make children themselves as fir trees without many aids. Create your own small fir tree bread. For this you cut a large slice of sandwich toast diagonally. For small children, the slice of toast fourths, because it makes it easier for them to take the toast into their hands.
Then you cover the triangles with soft butter or cream cheese and sprinkle chocolate sprinkles on them. Then you sting out small banana stars with cookies and decorate them on the sprinkles. Small fir-tree breads are ready. Children practice tasks of daily life and they can work completely independently, which strengthens their self-confidence.
Alternatively, you can also use a cut-out shape for the fir trees. This also looks very nice on a buffet. For small children, however, the split toast slices are easier to use. Both ideas are described in detail here. Have fun!
Serviette folds for Santa or Christmas
These little Nikolauses or Santa Clauses enchant many children. They can help with wrinkles and shapes or they design the napkin-nickolauses or napkin-Christmas men alone. All you need for this are red napkins, cotton wool pads and a black felt pen. See for yourself how easy this works. Have fun!
Strong Toast Trees - Finger Food for Christmas
These fir-tree breads can be used to create the children themselves with different ingredients. For example, cress, cucumber slices or cheese stars are suitable.
Cut a slice of toast into four triangles. From one triangle, the tree trunks are created and the others spread with cream cheese or soft butter. This spread keeps cucumber slices, cress or cheese stuck. Christmastime, the fir trees become if you chop stars from cheese or cucumber slices with a cookie cutter and thus the breads are covered. Have fun!
Cardboard houses as pendant, mini cards, picture
These charming little houses are easy to craft. Choose black photo box or packaging box and paint a simple house shape and be creative of the arrangement of windows and doors. The uniform shape and the different design makes great combinations possible. You can use the cardboard houses as a card, as a picture or as a gift pendant. Have fun!