As Christmas approached and I realized the cost of buying ornaments - and these would be cheaply made gaudy ornaments I decided that we would make our own this year.
So with some white paper, glue, glitter and a bit of thought we made our Christmas a "Handmade Christmas."We did have a Jesse Tree Ornaments lovingly made by our Pastors Wife given to us before we left and we had a special tree for that. I'll have to do a blog on that this year.
So our White Christmas started with our angel at the top of our tree. I have a devotional book about praying through the names of God this combined with a craft project I saw on line I decided to make these paper ornaments with the names of God in Hebrew. I think some day I would like to expand this idea and do it on something other than paper.
Then I had the kids make christmas trees, a monster, I made a box out of paper and had the kids decorate it like small presents hanging on the tree. Finally I decided rather than spend the money on expensive wrapping paper I would wrap everything in white printer paper. And decorate the paper with Christmas drawings and the name of who the present was for. We had a few gift bags thrown in for extra measure. I will say it was probably the most last minute Christmas shopping I have ever done but it was a good Christmas and I think the kids enjoyed their Christmas tree since their handy work was all over it.
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