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Holiday Traditions: Something Old, Something New

Family traditions are what the holidays are all about. Creating these family traditions with your children during the holiday season is definitely a tradition in itself! Each year, thousands of families celebrate the holidays with old traditions – and, quite often, they try out a new tradition or two, as well. I’m challenging everyone this year to focus on mixing the old traditions with a brand new family tradition!

A look at our “old traditions”? How can we make them “new”?

Decorating the tree as a family…bring out the old decorations, but then add in some new ones to make the tree look different this year! Make some bows with the Bowdabra to decorate the tree with, or turn some old ornaments into new ones with mini-bows made with the mini-Bowdabra.

Bake the traditional Christmas breads, pies and cookies, but add in some other favorites, like cupcakes, for the children to decorate. Wouldn’t Santa just love cupcakes, instead of cookies, for Christmas this year?

Listen to Christmas tunes…but, this year, listen to some of the new tunes by new artists that your children are listening to on the radio.

Watch an oldie-but-goodie holiday movie with your children and then watch a new one!

To continue reading, check out the full article Holiday Traditions: Something Old, Something New.

About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Re-Gifting ... the new chic

Fashion designers are creating a buzz on ramps across the globe with their environmentally friendly collections urging us to think recycle and green!

This holiday season, its trendy to apply this line of thought to gift giving as well!

It is now “chic” to be frugal and “re-gift,!”
 

Unleash your creativity at home by making wonderful crafts or baked goods, turning them into adorable goodies worth gifting. From handcrafted hair bows, to handmade jewelry, soaps, handmade candles, the possibilities are endless.

Chances are you may not even have to purchase these items from the store. About eighty percent of these items may be “hiding in plain site” in your home.

Take a look around. Didn’t you notice that satin ribbon “fraying” from your beautiful summer dress that is so “ten seasons ago!” Rip it off and turn it into a bow! Adorn a piece of handmade soap with it, or attach a pendant and make a necklace out of it.

To continue reading, check out the full Re-Gifting ... the New Chic article right now!

About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

10 Frugal Tips for Gift Wrapping

For the frugal holiday lovers, I have some gift wrapping tips for you! If you’re tired of spending a ton of money and feeling like the gift wrapping process is tedious, you’ll be happy to know that just a tad bit of imagination and a touch of love can create some attractively wrapped gifts. So, gather up the swaths of cloth, paper bags, and crafting supplies and get ready to have some fun with wrapping this holiday season. Have a wrapping party with your friends or let your kids invite some buddies over to join in the festivities.

1. Leftover pieces of fabric can make softly textured gift wrappers. Use the fabric that is lying around your house to add some creative holiday designs with puffy fabric paint for a three-dimensional, rich quality appeal.
2. Jazz up gifts with some paper bags and craft paper. There are a million ways to decorate presents when wrapped this way! Wrap, decorate…how the gifts come out is completely up to you and whoever is wrapping presents with you. Have your children dip their hands in washable paint and decorate the plain paper with handprints – wouldn’t their grandparents love their personalized paper? *Clever hints: You can recycle your brown paper bags and fasten them shut with double sided sticky tape. Blend the extra seams of the paper bag into the decorative pattern.
3. Instead of a box, use an ice cream container. Decorate the box with odds and ends around the house; you can use some ribbon, flowers, and if it’s for the kids, some colorful, fluffy pom poms are cute.
4. When you run out of wrapping paper in the middle of a present, create a mosaic by adorning the seams with ribbons, beads fabrics or colored duct tape.
5. Use the Bowdabra to make economical and unique bows. To be even more frugal, you can repurpose the scraps of ribbons that you find around your house to design a very distinctive bow.
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7. Use the Christmas cards from last year to create personalized gift tags. Decorate them with scraps of ribbon or fabric, candy, buttons, or glitter.
8. For larger presents, place them into a pillow case and tie them off with a gorgeous bow. For an even larger gift, run to one of the many dollar stores and purchase an inexpensive vinyl tablecloth or fabric remnant.
9. Let your children design some art work. When you wrap presents in children’s artwork, the artwork poses as a wonderful present, too. Artwork is great giftwrap for both grandparents and teachers.
10. Shop at the end of the season. Once Christmas is over, wrapping paper is marked down to prices with amazing savings. Be sure to hit the after Christmas sales and store the paper in a cool, dry spot for the next year.
11. Instead of using scotch tape, try using dots of glue or colorful duct tape.

A bit of imagination, ingenuity and some “crafting time” thrown together can save money and create some fabulous looking gifts. Be sure to look around you house for materials that you could use to wrap and decorate with. The sky is the limit when you “think outside of the box”.

About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Homemade Gifts Kids Can Make

What better way to teach children the true spirit of the holidays than by helping them to make homemade gifts for their friends and family?  This year families are searching for ways to make holiday traditions without all of the costly expenditures, and I have some of the cutest and most inexpensive ideas to make that happen.

There is an immeasurable value in doing arts and crafts with your children.  I hope that all of you parents and teachers will use the free holiday gift making instructions on the Crafters 4 Kids website to help children create gifts for their family and friends this year.

Here are just a few:
Holiday Pencil Toppers – Children can create pencil toppers with pipe cleaners.  This is a perfect gift for teachers, classmates, and school age siblings.


Holiday Notepad – Personalize a notepad with foam holiday decorations and give it to adult relatives.  It can be used as a phone message pad, a grocery list, or a place to jot notes.  Children can make an additional notepad for school and use it as an autograph book to remember their friends over Christmas break.


Jewelry – Foam is the perfect crafting material for children.  Children can cut foam into strips, add ribbon, and decorate for fun cuffs and bracelets. This craft requires limited supervision and children can really use their imagination with it.  They can make several different styles depending on the gift recipient.


Decorated Wooden Boxes – Use simple wooden boxes and decorate them with little miniatures tailored to the gift recipient.   Add a little gift or gift certificate inside of the box.


Holiday Coasters – This craft uses recycled lids from glass jars and foam and transforms them into something very useful like coasters.  Children will roll strips of foam and place them into the lid in a mosaic like pattern.  No two coasters will look exactly alike!
 

About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Who’s Dreaming of a Green Christmas?

What’s on the top of eco-conscious people’s Christmas wish lists? A “greener” Christmas, that’s what! People are searching for eco-friendly, inexpensive holiday decorations and gifts this year. As a matter of fact, Deloitte has announced that one out of five consumers will be purchasing more eco-friendly products during the 2010 holiday season.  Consumers will be seeking out companies that maintain sustainable practices and products – and they’re not shy about the price of these “green” products, as 17% of consumers reported that they are willing to pay a little more to do their part conserve and save the Earth.

The top two things on the list for conserving the environment this year are:

1)      Skipping the plastic bags. A lot of stores offer handy (and eco-friendly) bags with handles for a minimal fee. Many of these bags are made of canvas and you can use them anywhere you shop. Just because you buy the bags at the grocery store doesn’t mean you can’t use them at the Dollar General or any other store that you choose to do your holiday shopping in.

2)      Gift wrapping will be either eliminated or people will use materials including fabrics and vinyl tablecloths that can be reused for the next season or crafting projects. There are also recyclable wrapping papers to choose from, so keep your eyes open and read the labels when you are shopping.

The Christmas Tree Dilemma


People are wondering if cutting down the real Christmas trees is worse for the environment than buying an artificial tree. The answer is: NO! There are organic tree farms that grow their trees without causing any harm to the environment, plus they specifically grow the trees for the Christmas season and plan to plant more each year. Jus the chemicals that are emitted into the atmosphere while making the artificial trees is bad enough, let alone the fact that they are made out of PVC or non-renewable plastics, which will sit in landfills for years to come when they are thrown out.

You can elect to go without the tree this year to show how environmentally friendly you are, but most of us enjoy the sweet smell of fresh pine, so find an organic tree farm in your area and do your part to have a greener Christmas this year.

Green Lighting

What’s Christmas without the lights? LED lights are the environmental choice this year. They use less electricity, which means you will spend less money on your electricity bill also!

Christmas Cards

You can go in several different directions with holiday cards. The e-card is a bit less personal than the traditional holiday cards, but people are definitely trying out this avenue for their holiday greetings this year. If you can’t tear yourself away from the old-fashioned card-and-envelop-in-the-mail routine, try looking for greeting cards made with recyclable paper.

After the holidays, you can pack the cards that you received this year and reuse them next year. Simply cut them up into small square and rectangular shapes and use them as gift tags.

These are just a few ideas to help you green your Christmas this year. If you are interested in more “green” holiday ideas, stay tuned…I’ll be posting up some green holiday decorating ideas for this season in the near future.

Happy Holidays from your Bowdabra Family!

About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Decorating For the Holidays with the Kids

When you involve your children in the holiday decorating, you build long lasting memories and fantastic keepsakes. If you’re looking for kid-friendly, mess-free holiday decorating projects for you and you kids with step-by-step instructions, I am excited to pass on these ideas to you.

Be sure to put the date on the back of your crafts to turn them into timeless keepsakes. Next year, your kids will see the artwork from the previous year (and the fun that they had) when you unpack the holiday ornaments and decorations. Just the memories of the fun times that they had will inspire them to create new holiday crafts year after year. They may even come up with some great ideas on their own!

Mess-Free and Kid-Friendly holiday décor:

Decorate pictures with Santa: Craft some home made frames to adorn the pictures of your kids on Santa’s lap. Decorate them with holiday foam, pieces of wrapped candy, holiday colored buttons, scraps of ribbon, mini bows made with the mini Bowdabra, and other creative embellishments to give them a festive appeal.

North Pole sign: Look around the house for recyclable materials, such as wrapping paper tubes. Wrap some white and red ribbons around the tub to create an innovatively made candy-cane looking pole. A cardboard box can be cut to add the sign to the top of the pole with any creative decorations you choose and write the words, “North Pole” on the sign with glittery glue.

Handprints: Children’s handprints are the best keepsakes, as they change in size every year. Cut out handprints from holiday fabrics, green and red construction paper, or other materials of your choice. You can glue a bunch of the handprints together (in a mish-mash way) to make an adorable holiday wreath.   

Getting your kids involved in the decorating for the holidays will open up their imaginations and encourage them to get their creative juices flowing. Don’t forget to check out the Crafters 4 Kids website for other great holiday projects, too!

About the Author:

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

A Bowdabra Christmas

There’s no doubt that the holidays are a great time for family crafts and decorating together. Have you ever seen someone “Deck the Halls” with bows? Bows on the tree, bows on the stairways, bows on the railings outside…bows on presents. A Bowdabra Christmas is the chic festive holiday decorating scheme this year. Whether your theme is silver or red and green or the new blue or purple, with Bowdabra bows, you can achieve the snazzy presentation you’re looking for.

Gift wrap Bows

Top presents off with your home-made Bowdabra bows, with ribbons to match the wrapping paper. Or go ultra-chic with mixed fabrics and ribbons that contrast and compliment. New blue wrapping pops with silver, glittery bows and the even newer purples are accented with stylish gold bows. Kids will love crafting these bows and helping you attach them to the presents.

Stairways and Railings

Make a variety of diverse (or matching) bows to adorn the indoor and outdoor stairways and railings in and around the house. Get the kids involved with picking the colored ribbon out, designing the bows and tying them around the house. 

Christmas Hair Bows

These are awesome for presents for nieces and granddaughters, classmates and even your own daughter. Create them with the kids or make some new surprise hair bows to wrap and stuff into the stockings. Let your daughter make a hair bow for each of the girls in her class and spread the spirit of Christmas giving or take them to church and give them out. 

Bowdabra hair bows also great crafts to sell at craft fairs for holiday fundraising! People love the craft fairs during the holidays. Whether it’s for church, school, or to make some extra cash of your own this season, whip up some of these easy-to-make crafts and see how fast the sell! 

Bow Wreaths 

Add Bowdabra bows to a pre-made wreath. This is another perfect craft fair/fundraiser idea. You can make regular sized bows for an elegant and large wreath or mini bows for a smaller wreath. Hang your home-made wreaths around your own house as well – you’re sure to receive some compliments on these!

Tree Bows

Have you ever seen a Christmas tree decorated with bows instead of ornaments? You might see this is one of the major department stores, rather than glass ornaments. Elegant and classy, chic and stylish barely covers the presence that a tree decorated with bows displays. In addition, they’re also not breakable like the conventional glass ornaments. Instead of a star this year, make a large bow to top the tree, and then tie colorful – or completely matching – bows on the ends of the branches around the tree.

Make your Christmas a Bowdabra Christmas this year. Get your children, family, friends, and neighbors together, put out some snacks and drinks and have a Bowdabra festivity crafting party. There’s nothing better than being with the people who you love and creating new and easy decorations that will last for years to come.

 

About the Author:

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Frugal Holiday Decorating Tips

I know that not everyone was born with a creative gene. If you are creatively challenged, I have some easy tips and crafts to help you “Deck the Halls” this season – and they’re budget-friendly, too! So, get over the fact that you are don’t have a creative bone in your body and get some family and friends involved in some holiday cheer.

Mr. & Mrs. Reindeer Apples

Red apples are a versatile decorating item for the holidays. Some brown pipe cleaners and some candy canes will quickly turn the apples into adorable and fun reindeer. This craft is so fun for children and can be given as gifts to teachers, neighbors, or children’s classroom friends.

Beaded Pinecones

Collect pinecones during the fall on your nature walk; get the children involved and see how many they can find. Thread some beads and eclectic thread onto some wire and wrap them in between the scales on the pinecone. You can also attach a bow atop the pinecone.

For placement, tie some string onto the pinecone and into a loop to create a hanger and display it in the window. Or you could decorate the Christmas tree with them, turning them into frugal, natural and green ornaments, too.

Frugal & Green Holiday Table Decorating

A holiday table can be spiced up with items from the local farmers market or simply from around your home, yard, and garden. Gather items from your home like recycled glass containers, pinecones, candles and extra tree ornaments that no longer fit on the tree. The local farmers market is fun! You can purchase dried wheat bundles, gourds, and fruits to brighten up a few bowls.

With the gourd, you can cut a whole and insert a tea light candle. Top the gourd with floral picks or a bow made with your Mini Bowdabra. Grab a large mason jar and simply add the dried wheat to it for a fall and winter decoration. Use the recycled glass jars to make a new candle by adding the tea light candles or a decorative piece with ornaments. 

Simple Table Decoration

Place some of those extra ornaments that are left over after decorating the tree into a punch bowl and place it in the middle of the table as an inexpensive centerpiece. You can add to the centerpiece by setting glass beads topped with tapered candles inside of small glass jars.

Large Vase Filled with Ornaments

Large vases are eye catching when they are filled with ornaments. Allow the kids to carefully choose the ornaments and help you add them.

Nature Walk Centerpiece

Take the kids for a nature walk and ask them to select handfuls of thin sticks that are two to three feet long. Splatter the sticks with a variety of paint colors. Once the sticks are dry, fill a mason jar with popcorn kernels and place the sticks into the kernels. The sticks are held up by the kernels, which add even more fun color to the display.

The idea of this season, during the current economic downturn, is to spend time with family while simultaneously saving money. What ideas can you come up with to decorate on a budget? Kids have excellent imaginations if you just start the ball rolling, so get out the craft supplies and let them do the creative thinking.

About the Author:

Sandy Sandler is the founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Thanksgiving with Kids

I have some Do-It-Yourself tips to make this Thanksgiving even more blessed. Frugal, creative and green are this season’s theme, even if you are creatively challenged. These ideas are budget friendly, so anyone can do them. I hope these ideas spark some inspiration to make at least one of these crafty creations for your Thanksgiving this year.

Get The Kids Involved with these Frugal Decorations:

(Free step-by-step instructions with photos are available at Crafters 4 Kids)

Frugal and Fun Halloween Costumes For Your Kids!

Working with Crafters 4 Kids keeps me aware of the vast number of families that struggle through each and every holiday. It’s not a surprise that when Halloween comes along, kids expect to go to the store and get a brand new costume. Unfortunately, the store bought costumes (as you very well know) are getting ridiculously expensive each year! If you have one child, the cost might not be excessive; however families with several children are facing a hefty bill, with the average cost of a costume ranging from $10 to $30 – even at Wal-mart and Target!

Save yourself that enormous bill by getting creative and involving your kids. This year, tell them that you are going to help them make the most fabulous costumes on the block (and keep the fact that you will save a ton of money a big secret!). 

One way to save some money on costumes is to check out the Goodwill, Salvation Army, or other thrift stores in your area. You need to get to these stores early in the season, because their holiday racks sell rapidly. Some people think that if they wait until last minute, they will get a better deal. On the downside, these items won’t decrease in cost until after the holiday is over, so it’s best to get in on the deals (and the selection) as early as possible.

Your little girl may want to be a sparkly fairy princess (don’t they all?). Just find a beautiful dress of her choice in the girl’s section of the thrift store (for approximately $1-$3) and add some gems, beads and glitter to the dress to adorn it.

A young pirate suit for your son can be designed with a white shirt, black vest, and a pair of black pants. Some black eyeliner can create the mustache and fluffy eyebrows. If you want to add some finishing touches, look in the scarf and belt area of the store – these items are usually less than a dollar.

If you find partial costumes, you can get creative and make the missing parts with simple craft items.

Cardboard from boxes (with some help from some magic markers) can be easily turned into really cool swords for pirates. The eye patch can easily be made with a circle of cardboard. Cut halfway into the circle and overlap the cut pieces to make the eye patch concave, rather than flat, and then glue it together. Attach some elastic to the eye patch and you now have a pirate.

Fairy princesses can use cardboard, too. Bend the cardboard into a crown shape, tape it together, and add some paint and glittery glue to create an embellished tiara for a princess. A sparkly wand for your fairy tale princess can be created with the same craft supplies.

Take your kids to the thrift store with you and let their imaginations run wild. You’d be amazed at what they come up with on their own!

 

About the Author:

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com

Have a Green Halloween

This year, there is a new color to associate with the orange and black of Halloween. One of the biggest questions this year is, “How can we add green to Halloween?” People are really putting a conscious effort into thinking outside of the “candy box” to green Halloween, and they’re involving the kids, too.
 

Make Your Own Costumes

One of the biggest ways people are greening their Halloween is by designing their own costumes. By salvaging costumes from past holidays, trading off costumes with friends and families, and shopping at the thrift stores, they’re participating in one of the “R’s” of green – reuse.

Make Your Own Bags

Another way that people are putting some green in Halloween is by creating their own trick-or-treat bags. Rather than using plastic or paper bags, people are using pillowcases decorated by the children or reusable canvas bags from the grocery stores (some have holiday colored bags, as well). These are far more durable and safe; you won’t have to worry about your child’s bag tearing or falling apart while trick or treating. Pack the bags up to keep it green for next year, too.

Organic Treats

Organic candies are the new “green” treats for this year. By handing out organic candy, you are not only contributing to a healthier environment, you are spreading green awareness to everyone who receives (and eats) the yummy candy.

Bowdabra Hair Bows

Crafty, fun, and green – Bowdabra hair bows are easy to make and fun to wear for the holidays. Little girls will love making them, especially if they are a fairy princess or Tinker Bell, the ultimate favorites for girly costumes. Create hair bows with Halloween colored ribbon to wear to school or give out to little girl trick-or-treaters!

Natural Décor

Get kids involved with the Autumn/Halloween décor by taking a nature walk and looking for interest décor that is eco-friendly – autumn creates amazing colors for natural décor for the house and yard. Go to the local farmers markets to pick up hay bales, fruits and veggies, pumpkins, and other natural items that look fabulous in a bowl or vase in the center of the table or out in the yard.

You can also decorate pre-made or home-made wreaths with sticks, leaves, acorns, pine cones, and top them off with some Bowabra bows for an elegant appeal.

Turning Halloween green takes just a bit of imagination – it’s actually simpler and far more economical than going to the store and buying a ton of décor. This fall, think outside of that “candy box” and “green” your Halloween, in addition to the original orange and black colors that already mark the holiday. What’s your favorite color for Halloween?

About the Author:

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com