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Easy DIY Christmas Gnomes These cute little guys are fun and easy for little crafters and make a cute addition to any Christmas decor.  What you need: (per gnome) Peice of felt Square cotton makeup remover Egg carton (one compartment cut from the egg carton) 1 bead for his nose and other beads for decorating his hat Hot glue What to do: For the hat: Cut a strip of felt, fold both ends toward each other to make a cone shape, in the size that you want (it should be big enough to cover the top portion of the egg carton.) The bottom will be uneven, cut the uneven peices to make a curve.  Put hot glue on one end if the felt, fold the other side over and press together. Cut the cotton square to fit onto the egg carton, hot glue it in place. Hot glue the hat in place, making sure to tip it back slightly.  Hot glue a bead tucked just under the hat as a little nose.  Decorate the hat with beads, glitter or paint pens (little crafters can do this step before glueing the hat to...

Family Advent Calendar This is a fun family sized advent calendar. Most years I make our advent calendar, in the past I have used a cardboard box separated into compartments, plastic trading card sleeves and my favorite, the 24 count mini muffin tin . For our family advent calendar this year used my muffin tin and went with different flavors of Hershey's Kisses since they have lots of kinds available for Christmas including sugar cookie!  Since the kids are getting a bit older I've added a level of difficulty this year by adding a search and find o find the door of the day. On a peice of wrapping paper I stuck the same set of stickers but with numbers on the picture. They have to find the number and the picture on the paper and then find the same picture on the advent calendar. What you need: 24 count mini muffin tin  24 round gift tags Christmas stickers (2 identical sheets of 24 stickers) Hershey's Kisses (I chose4 different kinds to change it up from day to day) 1 large ...